Monday, December 22, 2025

Saakashvili welcomes foreign election observers

Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili said he welcomes election observers and wants many opinion polls, while meeting with Euronest, the parliamentary component of the Eastern Partnership. (Official photo.)

TBILISI, DFWatch – President Mikheil Sakashvili says Georgia as never before needs many foreign observers.

“We need many international observers not only on the day of the elections but today, tomorrow, and the day after. The sooner observers arrive from the

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Mobile company in Georgia “recognizes” Abkhazia as a country

Beeline's map of the world, showing Abkhazia as a country.

TBILISI, DFWatch – A Russian mobile operator in Georgia portrays Georgia’s breakaway region Abkhazia as an independent country on its website.

It’s Beeline, which is owned by the Russian mobile company VimpelCom, which now suggests to readers of its website

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Borisov to Saakashvili: Bulgaria backs Georgia's EU approach

Bulgaria's prime minister, Boyko Borisov (far right), met Georgia's president Mikheil Saakashvili (center) at the presidential residence in Tbilisi Sunday.

TBILISI, DFWatch – Bulgaria expresses its full support for Georgia’s integration process towards NATO and the EU.

Boyko Borisov, Bulgarian Prime Minister, said this Sunday during a meeting with Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili.

Specifically Borisov said his

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NDI Georgia defends poll which shows Ivanishvili losing

No comment. Luis Navarro, NDI's Georgia man, refuses to comment on why the poll didn't have a presidential candidate from the ruling party compared against opposition candidates. "I don’t want to comment on that part of the survey which we didn’t publish," he says. (Photo: Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch – A new poll by the National Democratic Institute (NDI) shows the opposition Georgian Dream led by Bidzina Ivanishvili reduced to only 10%. Mikhail Saakashvili’s National Movement party receives 47%.

NDI has been in hot waters locally over the poll,

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U.S. Ambassador to Georgia is confident in NDI's polling methods

U.S. Ambassador to Georgia John Bass says NDI's and IRI's polls are done by legitimate methodology and it's important to distinguish between the results themselves and they way the results are portrayed.

TBILISI, DFWatch – The U.S. Embassy to Georgia has expressed its confidence in surveys done by the National Democratic Institute and the International Republican Institute and says the polls are conducted professionally and are based on legitimate methodology.

The

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Georgia's refugees to be top priority for the ombudsman

Refugees have organized themselves and ask for an allowance it is possible to live on. (Photo: Mari Nikuradze.)

TBILISI, DFWatch – The Georgian Public Defender gives priority to the problems of internally displaced persons (IDPs).

Giorgi Tughushi presented his annual report on human rights in Georgia, which in details describes problems faced in different areas, like the prison

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