Monday, December 8, 2025

Georgian PM: Organizers of Khurcha shooting will be punished

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New Prime Minister Irakli Gharibashvili. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Acting Interior Minister Irakli Gharibashvili promises that those who ordered and organized the so-called Khurcha incident in 2008 will be identified and punished.

A few weeks ago, police detained two former government officials on suspicion of having organized

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Gharibashvili names new Georgian government

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Irakli Gharibashvili presented a government with the same people as before, except for new Interior Minister Alexandre Chikaidze. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–The Georgian prime minister in waiting Irakli Gharibashvili on Monday named his new cabinet.

It lists the same people as before the inauguration of Giorgi Margvelashvili, with the exception of Gharibashvili’s post as interior minister which will be

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Two protests during Georgian inauguration

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Activists demand a stop in large hydro power dams that threaten villages and the environment. (DF Watch.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Two separate demonstrations went on on the street outside during the inauguration of Giorgi Margvelashvili in the yard of the old parliament building in Tbilisi on Sunday.

Labor party leader Shalva Natelashvili rallied supporters and said that the

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New Georgian government to face parliament on Wednesday

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President Giorgi Margvelashvili has instructed the majority in parliament to form a new government. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–With the inauguration of Giorgi Margvelashvili as president on Sunday, the government is now suspended, but continues as an acting government until parliament has confirmed a new government that will be presented by the president.

Parliament will

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