Tuesday, December 9, 2025

Online shopping is catching on in Georgia

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Empty cardboard boxes testify to how eagerly the parcels have been awaited. (DF Watch photo.)

TBILISI, DFWatch — There is a small crowd gathered in the hall giving electronic signatures together with ID cards to get the parcel. ‘Parcel from America’, the tagline of the company says.

There are several companies in Tbilisi like this one that offer to ship items

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Georgian patriarch visits historic cemetery in Moscow

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Georgian Patriarch Ilia II on Friday visited All Saints Church in Moscow. (Photo: Salome Tsertsvadze and Ekaterina Tkachenko.)

TBILISI, DFWatch — Georgian Patriarch Ilia II Friday visited the All Saints Church in Sokol, in northern Moscow.

The church is the site of a now defunct graveyard where there are buried many well-known Georgians and royals. There has been construction work in

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Saakashvili's party ceases work in constitutional commission

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The National Movement’s Giorgi Tevdoradze. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch — President Mikheil Saakashvili’s party has ceased work in the commission organizing public hearings about proposed constitutional changes.

The National Movement party’s representatives say the reason is that they dislike statements made by the

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A third of minibus drivers in Tbilisi on strike

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600 drivers of minibuses (“marshrutkas”) in Tbilisi are on strike against a new license system. (DF Watch photo.)

TBILISI, DFWatch — About 600 minibus drivers went on strike in Tbilisi Friday, causing crowding on buses and in the metro.

The strike has the support of about 30 % of all minibus drivers in the capital. They are protesting against a new license system which has left

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Saakashvili and Friends

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Beka Natsvlishvili is Research Associate at the Centre For Social Studies.

Certain powers in Europe declare unconditional support for Mikheil Saakashvili and his National Movement whom the Georgian people replaced peacefully, through tremendous efforts and social consolidation. This article offers the reader a description of reasons behind

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