Tuesday, December 9, 2025

Saakashvili's party compares Ivanishvili with Chavez and Castro

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Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili. (Official photo.)

TBILISI, DFWatch — The opposition National Movement party in Georgia compares Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili with Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro after statements he made at a press conference Tuesday.

Ivanishvili was summing up his first hundred days of being in

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Ivanishvili says Saakashvili's party tries to recruit Alasania

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Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili says the party of President Mikheil Saakashvili is trying to recruit one of his biggest assets; Defense Minister Irakli Alasania. (Official photo.)

TBILISI, DFWatch — Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili says the National Movement is attempting to win over Defense Minister Irakli Alasania to their side.

He says he heard rumors that some of the UNM members have contact with him, but when he asked Alasania about it,

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Georgian wine to Russia in months

Levan Davitashvili
Levan Davitashvili, head of the National Wine Agency, believes Georgian wine might be back on Russian dinner tables by the end of spring. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch — Georgian wine might get back on the Russian market by the end of spring and it will cost about USD 10, which is higher than the average wine price in Russia.

A delegation from Georgian business and government is in Moscow to negotiate about a return

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Georgians in Moscow to negotiate about opening trade

Gennady Onishchenko
Gennady Onishchenko, head of the consumer protection bureau in Russia, will meet with the Georgian negotiators. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch — A delegation from Georgia is in Moscow on Monday to negotiate about letting Georgian wine, mineral water and other products onto the Russian market.

The seven persons delegation left on Sunday. Two of them represent the national agency of wine, two

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CoE expert confident in Ivanishvili's democratic aspirations

Gianni Buquicchio
Gianni Buquicchio, President of the Council of Europe’s Venice Commission. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch — Venice Commission president Gianni Buquicchio says he will continue cooperating with the new government in Georgia.

Before he left Georgia, Buquicchio held a press conference to sum up his stay and his meetings with the president, the prime

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