Saturday, December 20, 2025

Abkhazia to ask EU to recognize homemade passports

Abkhazian de facto foreign minister Viacheslav Chirikba believes the EU will seriously consider recognizing the region's passports, after meeting the EU's representative to Georgia, Philip Dimitrov.

TBILISI, DFWatch – Abkhazia wants the EU to recognize the Georgian breakaway region’s own passports as valid travel documents, just as is the case with North Cyprus.

De facto foreign minister Viacheslav Chirikba said this February 8 after meeting Philip Dimitrov,

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Ivanishvili takes part in street protest for the first time

Opposition financier Bidzina Ivanishvili expressed his condolances to the father of a young man who died in a rain of police bullets almost six years ago, and said the Georgian people will eventually find the guilty ones and have them punished. (Photo: Georgian Dream.)

TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgian billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili calls for the government to investigate a police special operation in 2006 which took the lives of two young men.

It’s known as the Vazagashvili case and gathers a crowd every year at the spot near Paliashvili

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Georgian authorities go after election observers

New rules effectively cuts off the foreign funding for election observers and civil rights groups in the former Soviet republic of Georgia. The Saakashvili government believes that they are trying to affect the outcome of the election. (Photo: Mari Nikuradze.)

TBILISI, DFWatch – The government of Georgian leader Mikheil Saakashvili has begun an unprecedented move to cut off the foreign funding of civil rights groups and election observers, because it believes that the groups are trying to affect the outcome of the election this fall.

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As winter freeze hits Tbilisi, the garbage fee jumps

Authorities in Tbilisi recently made the monthly garbage fee dependent on the electric bill, which has led to a unpleasant surprise for those who rely on eletric heaters these days. (Photo: Mari Nikuradze.)

TBILISI, DFWatch – Among all the other problems the weather is causing, Tbilisi citizens have one more worry: Their garbage fee has increased dramatically.

A few months ago, a law amendment made the municipal garbage fee dependent on the electricity bill, so the more

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Georgia hit by up to two meters of snow, schools closed

15 cm of snow was enough to cause dangerous situations all over Tbilisi Wednesday. (Photo: Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch – Snowy weather is creating difficulties in the former Soviet republic of Georgia. The whole country is currently covered with up to two meters of snow, but the transit of goods east-west is flowing normally.

The international airport in Tbilisi says their

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Tenser by the day in Tskhinvali, Moscow ambassador to run

Dimitry Medoyev, South Ossetian ambassador to Moscow, has emerged as a new possible leader of the region, after the two most popular candidates both refused to take part March 25.

TBILISI, DFWatch – The situation in Georgia’s breakaway region South Ossetia ahead of a rescheduled elections is getting more strained day by day.

The region’s state security committee released a statement Wednesday warning of ‘possible provocations by Georgian special

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Why newspapers are sold from bicycle stands in Tbilisi

Tbilisi City Hall removed most of the newspaper booths to make way for a new chain of kiosks. The free press in the country is concerned that the independent papers will get blacklisted in City Hall's kiosks, and instead use mobile stands and bibycles to reach the public. (Photo: Mari Nikuradze.)

TBILISI, DFWatch – In the Georgian capital, news hungry citizens can now get their daily update from a bright red bicycle. The reason the new mobile newsstand is hitting the streets is that City Hall has removed many of the old permanent booths.

Since last December, independent

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New photo prohibition in Georgia's parliament

Giorgi Tsagareishvili of the Free Democrats criticizes the new ban on cameras inside parliament.

TBILISI, DFWatch – Journalists in Georgia will no longer be allowed to bring cameras into the session hall of the Parliament building.

This is where plenary sessions are held. They will also be prevented from having cameras with them in the small meeting rooms where committee

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Medvedev wants to reestablish trade relations with Georgia

TBILISI, DFWatch – Russian President Dimitry Medvedev says the Russian and Georgian people should have relations and thinks it’s therefore necessary to restore trade relation.

The president made this statement on Monday during a meeting with his supporters.

“We have

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