Saturday, December 20, 2025

Separatist politician claims US strong-armed Latin American countries to not recognize Abkhazia

Maxim Gvinjia. (Sputnik.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Several Latin American countries that considered recognizing Abkhazia as an independent country refrained from doing so after the personal intervention by US and UK leaders, a former Sokhumi politician has claimed in an interview with Russian news agency RIA Novosti.

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Officials from Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Ukraine expected in Georgia for 10th anniversary of August War

TBILISI, DFWatch–The foreign ministers of Poland, Lithuania and Latvia, and the deputy prime minister of Ukraine are among the foreign officials who will visit Georgia on Monday and Tuesday for the 10th anniversary of the Russo-Georgian war.

During their visit,

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Georgia triple murder suspect placed under psychiatric evaluation

TBILISI, DFWatch–A 19 year old shepherd charged with murdering an American family of three is undergoing psychiatric evaluation, his lawyer said on Monday.

Malkhaz Kobauri, who faces life sentence for the savage killing of Ryan and Lora Smith and their 4 year old son Caleb, is being examined

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Georgia's ruling party vows to fill 'legal vacuum' after Constitutional Court abolished punishment for cannabis use

One of the plaintiffs, Zurab Japaridze, at the marijuana planting event on New Year’s Eve 2017. (Pirveli TV.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–The ruling GD party in Georgia rejects a decision by the Constitutional Court to abolish punishment for marijuana use, arguing that the ruling creates a ‘legal vacuum’ that the government pledges to fill.

The Constitutional Court on Monday

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South Ossetia's leader visits Bashar al-Assad in Damascus

De facto president of the breakaway republic South Ossetia Anatoly Bibilov (left) and Syrian president Bashar al-Assad.

TBILISI, DFWatch–The leader of South Ossetia, a breakaway republic within Georgian territory, visited Syrian president Bashar al-Assad in Damascus on Monday.

During the meeting, South Ossetia’s de facto president Anatoly Bibilov pledged to help the Syrian regime ‘fight terrorism’,

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Gali residents urged to renounced Georgian ethnicity to acquire Abkhazian passport

Awarding ‘Abkhaz passport’. In the center Temur Nadaraia, the head of Gali de facto administration.

GALI, DFWatch–July 19, a ceremony was held here in Gali to award ‘Abkhaz passports’ to 139 residents who listened to an appeal by something called the Mirzakan Abkhaz Council.

This was was only the latest event organized by the Council in an effort backed by Sokhumi

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