Sunday, December 14, 2025

Riot interrupts football match in Georgia

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Fans of Kutaisi’s football club FC Torpedo ran onto the field and attacked the visiting players. (Photo published by Dinamo Tbilisi.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–A match of Georgia’s National Football Championship in Kutaisi between old rivals, local FC Torpedo and Dinamo Tbilisi, was interrupted by the riot of Torpedo fans who flooded the field and attacked Dinamo players and their fans.

The score was 2-0 in

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Police beat villagers for Norwegian hydro power in Georgia

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Seven hundred villagers clashed with two hundred police in Ghurta. (Video still from Adjara TV’s report.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Police in Georgia Saturday broke up a protest in a village where a Norwegian company wants to build a hydro power plant.

About two hundred policemen were mobilized to break through a road block put up by villagers in Ghurta, in the south western Adjara

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Budget gridlock finally solved in Tbilisi

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Irakli Shikhiashvili, head of Tbilisi City Council. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Tbilisi City Council decided to write the 2014 budget themselves, after refusing twice to pass drafts proposed by City Hall.

The capital’s executive government is staffed by people from Saakashvili’s National Movement, but the city council is dominated

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Four tourists dead in avalanche in Georgia

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Two German and two French citizens died in Ushguli, a village in the north of Svaneti, Georgia. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Four tourists have died in an avalanche in Ushguli, a village in the Upper Svaneti region, north in Georgia.

According to the local government in Mestia, two German and two French tourists have died.

One French tourist survived. His health is in no

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Hundreds from a Georgian mining village demonstrated in Tbilisi

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People from Kazreti and their supporters demand better work conditions for workers in the mines. (DF Watch.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Several hundreds people from the village Kazreti in southern Georgia demonstrated in front of the government office in Tbilisi on Friday.

They demand that the government mediates between the workers and the company that owns the mines in their

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Georgian parliament condemns Russia's actions in Crimea

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Speaker of Parliament Davit Usupashvili said the debate about the Ukraine resolution was one of his most difficult days in parliament.

TBILISI, DFWatch–Parliament in Georgia Wednesday passed a resolution condemning Russia’s deployment of military forces in Crimea, which it says is a threat to all of Europe.

The resolution says Georgia became a victim of Russian military aggression in the war in 2008,

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Georgian PM: 'Suicide' if Ukraine takes advice from Saakashvili

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Prime Minister of Georgia Irakli Gharibashvili. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Gharibashvili claims former President Mikheil Saakashvili is being used as an adviser by the new interim authorities in Ukraine.

Appearing on a TV show Wednesday evening, he warned Ukrainian leaders not to trust the

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Russian military helicopter and UAV fly over Georgia

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A Russian helicopter of the type Mi-8 flew over an area near Gori in Georgia Thursday. (Photo by U.S. Department of Defense.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–A Russian military helicopter violated Georgian air space on Thursday.

The helicopter, which was of the type Mi-8, flew over an area in the vicinity of the towns Gori and Kaspi, according to Georgia’s Foreign Ministry.

According to the ministry, the helicopter took

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2012's democracy campaign revived in Georgia

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Kakha Kozhoridze, one of the campaigners. (Video still from the new ad by This Affects You Too.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–A campaign in Georgia which played an important role ahead of Saakashvili’s unexpected election defeat in 2012 has been revived.

The campaign This Affects You Too is being brought back to life in order to fight against illegal surveillance by

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