Sunday, December 14, 2025

Other officials named as handover gets nearer

Nodar Javakhishvili has been appointed as new director of Georgia's National Bank. But the National Movement party of President Saakashvili is against the appointment. (IPN.)

TBILISI, DFWatch — The Georgian Dream coalition leader and likely prime minister Bidzina Ivanishvili today named his candidates for government ministers and other top positions.

Head of Georgia’s National Bank will be Nodar Javakhishvili, chair of Cartu Bank, a bank affiliated

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Negotiations between Saakashvili's and Ivanishvili's people

Giga Bokeria (left), representing President Mikheil Saakashvili, runs into Irakli Alasania (right), representing Bidzina Ivanishvili, exiting the elevator Friday. (Georgian Dream photo.)

TBILISI, DFWatch — The winner of the aryparliament election, Georgian Dream, will from October 8 send representatives to each state body to start a  ‘peaceful transfer of government’ until a new government is formed.

This was one of the major decisions made at a meeting between

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Satellite dishes will not be distributed after all

Maestro director Ilia Kikabidze says the government's offer was just a ruse to fool the international community into believing that it cares about freedom of expression. (DFWatch photo.)

TBILISI, DFWatch – Negotiations a TV company and the government about installing satellite receivers have failed.

The director of Maestro TV claims the government’s offer to negotiate about the distribution of the equipment was just a ruse, and that it never planned

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Ivanishvili may hold referendum about parliamentary republic

The opposition's Bidzina Ivanishvili considers putting the question of shifting power from president to prime minister to the people in a referendum. (Georgian Dream.)

TBILISI, DFWatch – The leader of the largest opposition bloc in Georgia doesn’t exclude that if he wins the parliamentary election he will hold a referendum regarding government structure.

Currently, the president holds almost all power. From 2013 these powers will

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Former AC Milan player Kaladze denied to book Tbilisi stadium

Kakhi Kaladze, a former professional player for AC Milan, is trying to organize a friendship match in Tbilisi, but can't get permission to use a stadium. (IPN.)

TBILISI, DFWatch – Former AC Milan player who left football to go into politics was planning to hold a friendship match with Milan in Georgia as a symbol of him leaving, but Georgia refused to make a stadium available for the match.

Kakhi Kaladze, who now is a partner

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