Saturday, December 13, 2025

Saakashvili and Ivanishvili seen in rare tète-à-tète

Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili (left) and President Mikheil Saakashvili (right). (Photo published by Ivanishvili.)

TBILISI, DFWatch — The Georgian President and Prime Minister, who only have met once after the parliamentary election, Sunday celebrated the jubilee of the Georgian patriarch and shared what seemed to be a serious conversation.

Last time the two leaders met

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Orthodox church leaders leaving Georgia

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Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili (left), and Georgian Patriarch Ilia II (number two from right). (Click to enlarge.) (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch — Clerics from different Orthodox countries will leave today, Monday.

The guests arrived five days ago in order to congratulate Georgian Patriarch Ilia II with his 80th birthday and 35th year since his inauguration. Patriarch Bartholomew I of

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Unchanged bonus system for public employees

Tamar Iakobidze, analyst at Institute for Development of Freedom of Information.

TBILISI, DFWatch — A group claims a bonus system for public employees has not changed after the parliamentary election, but that there is slightly more transparency.

According to the Ministry of Finance, bonuses given to public employees amounted to over 750 000 GEL

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Georgia releases 190 political prisoners

Convicted as NATO-spy? Vakhtang Maisaia, a former adviser at the Ministry of Defense, says his case file says he was spying not for Russia, but for NATO. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch — 190 persons determined to be political prisoners were Sunday released from jail as a mass amnesty comes into force in Georgia.

Prison Minister Sozar Subari was present at Prison No 6, which is in Rustavi, a town 20 km south of the capital.

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Georgia releases prisoners against the president's veto

Parliament Speaker Davit Usupashvili signed the amnesty law Saturday. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch — The speaker of the Georgian parliament Saturday signed into law a bill which will release 3 000 prisoners and halve the sentence for 17 000 others in a mass amnesty.

The bill is one of the most tangible results of the unexpected outcome of the

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Saakashvili's party under pressure in Tetritskaro

Demonstrators in Tetritskaro demand a change of local government. (Info9.)

TBILISI, DFWatch — Friday, another rally was held to demand the resignation of the local government in a small town in eastern Georgia.

The population of Tetritskharo, which lies in the Kvemo Kartli region, doesn’t want the former ruling party to govern their town,

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