Tuesday, December 9, 2025

Tbilisi mayor fails to appear for questioning

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“If anyone has illusions that I am leaving and won’t come back, I will tell them that I cannot grant such a pleasure to Ivanishvili, Kbilashvili, Tsulukiani and the others,” says Tbilisi Mayor Gigi Ugulava. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch — Tbilisi mayor and staunch Saakshvili ally Gigi Ugulava failed to show up for questioning at the Finance Ministry’s Investigative Service today.

He was called to explain himself regarding a case of suspected embezzlement of five million lari

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Saakashvili's party recruiting people to weaken government

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Impatient. National Movement Secretary Vano Merabishvili can’t wait four years for the next election. “There are other methods,” he says. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch — President Mikheil Saakashvili’s political party says it can’t wait four years for a change of power and instead will try to ‘weaken’ the Ivanishvili government.

Secretary General of the National Movement, Vano Merabisvhili, says they do not plan

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Are the trials against ex officials political revenge?

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Ex Interior Minister Bacho Akhalaia’s detention November 7, 2012. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch — Foreign diplomats in Tbilisi are concerned about the many speedy trials against former officials, saying the whole process looks like political revenge.

The new government in Georgia has received seven thousand complaints from people who say they

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