Monday, December 22, 2025

Saakashvili warns against the enemy within

Mikheil Saakashvili warned against the enemy within during a speech to soldiers at an April 9 commemmoration ceremony. (Photo: Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch – Speaking on April 9, officially known as The Day of National Unity, President Mikheil Saakashvili warned against his country’s enemy within.

Addressing soldiers in the yard of the parliament building on the important public holiday dedicated to unity,

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Georgia tests new domestically produced drone

Mikheil Saakashvili awarded medals to those who developed two armored vehicles and announced the test flight of a new drone tomorrow. (Photo: Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch – President Mikheil Saakashvili announced the test flight in a speech April 9.

The date is symbolically significant as a peaceful demonstration for independence was attacked by Soviet troops here in Tbilisi in 1989.

Saakashvili made reference to

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April 9 remembered in Tbilisi, 23 years later

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Every year at 4 in the morning, people show up in front of parliament to commemmorate the events on April 9, 1989. (Photo: Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch – April 9 is 21 year anniversary for the restoration of Georgia’s independence and 23 years since the Soviet Union used soldiers to disperse a peaceful protest in Tbilisi.

Georgian society, government and opposition remembered this day on Rustaveli

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Russian sanitary official concerned about Tbilisi laboratory

Russia's top sanitary inspector questions why Georgia needs to have American military researchers working at this newly opened laboratory near Tbilisi.

TBILISI, DFWatch – Russia’s chief sanitary inspector is concerned about the deployment of U.S. military laboratories at former Soviet medical institutions in Ukraine and Georgia.

According to NEWSru, a Russian news website owned by Gazprom, Gennady Onishchenko

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Georgia to amend constitution in Ivanishvili case

The government in Georgia is changing the constitution and giving EU citizens the right to run for office. Bidzina Ivanishvili (pictured above) is a citizen of France. (Photo: Mari Nikuradze.)

TBILISI, DFWatch – President Mikheil Saakashvili’s main competitor will be allowed to participate in the parliamentary elections in October, after the government agreed to amend the constitution.

Following the amendment, EU citizens can run in elections in Georgia.

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Museum in Stalin's hometown to focus on history of stalinism

Georgia's culture minister Nika Rurua today presents a new concept for the museum in Josef Stalin's hometown Gori. It is to focus on the history of stalinism.

TBILISI, DFWatch – The museum dedicated to Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin in his hometown of Gori in Georgia will change name to the Museum of Stalinism.

The Ministry of Culture is behind the idea that the museum will offer visitors a historical account of stalinism,

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Dzhioyeva forms opposition party in South Ossetia

Alla Dzhioyeva casting her vote November 27, 2011. She won, but a court cancelled the election. (RES.)

TBILISI, DFWatch – In South Ossetia, the opposition leader Alla Dzhioyeva has decided to set up a new political party.

April 7, an organizing committee for the new party called ‘Iriston – Freedom Square’ met at Dzhioyeva’s headquarters, Ekho Kavkaza reports.

“We

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Ex-KGB officer wins in South Ossetia

Former local KGB head Leonid Tibilov won with 55% of the votes and is the new leader of the breakawy region South Ossetia. (RES.)

TBILISI, DFWatch – A former local head of the KGB in South Ossetia has won the presidential elections in the breakaway region. Leonid Tibilov received about 55 percent of the votes beating competitor David Sanakoyev, presidential human rights commissioner.

The

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South Ossetia to go to the polls again

Voters in breakaway South Ossetia will tomorrow cast their votes for the fourth time in five months to select a new leader. Photo shows voting in the first round of the second election March 25 2012. (RES.)

TBILISI, DFWatch – The de facto republic South Ossetia tomorrow holds the second round of its second presidential elections.

The first election was held in November 2011. The Kremlin favorite and an opposition leader got through to the second round, in which the

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