Sunday, December 14, 2025

Opposition groups form coalition in Tbilisi

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Dimitri Lortkipanidze, the United Opposition’s candidate for Tbilisi Mayor. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–A coalition of opposition parties not represented in parliament met on Friday to present their candidate for Tbilisi Mayor: former MP Dimitry Lortkipanidze.

The coalition was created by Nino Burjanadze’s Democratic Movement together with three

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Close Saakashvili ally questioned about embezzlement

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Giga Bokeria claims he was called in for questioning for political reasons. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Prosecutors in Georgia Friday questioned the former secretary of the country’s Security Council in an embezzlement case.

Walking out after five hours inside the Prosecutor’s Office, Giga Bokeria said the interrogation was conducted in a peaceful

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Saakashvili wants to educate Ukrainians in reforms

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Former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili is to start a center for the study of reforms in the Ukrainian capital Kiev.

Saakashvili, who is currently in Kiev, said in an interview with a TV channel there that he wants to share his experiences

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Georgia had 8 percent increase in visitors in March

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10% more tourists visited Georgia in January-March 2014, compared to the year before. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia had an 8 percent increase in number of visitors in March, 2014, compared to the same period last year.

There came 392,725 visitors in the third month of 2014, according to new monthly figures published by the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

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Georgian PM visits site of new air, sea and land transit hub

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Prime Minister Irakli Gharibashvili. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia on Wednesday confirmed plans for a new airport in conjunction with a port in Anaklia, a small settlement on the Black Sea coast, on the border with Abkhazia.

Prime Minister Irakli Gharibashvili, who visited Anaklia with Infrastructure

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Lawyer group demands effective investigation of prisoner abuse

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Kakha Kojoridze from Georgian Young Lawyer’s Association. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgian Young Lawyers Association (GYLA) demands that the government starts investigating several cases of possible mistreatment of prisoners.

According to GYLA, 17 persons have contacted the organization the last 2 months, eight of them tell about

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NATO chief doesn't exclude Georgian membership plan

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Georgian Foreign Minister Maia Panjikidze and NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen. (NATO photo.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen does not rule out that the alliance might give Georgia a Membership Action Plan (MAP) at the summit in Wales in September.

At a press conference in Brussels yesterday, a journalist from Georgia’s

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Videos seem to rule out torture of Data Akhalaia witness

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The office of Georgia’s chief prosecutor. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–The Prosecutor’s Office in Georgia has described more details surrounding the death of Shalva Tatukhashvili, which it says shows that he could not have been tortured during interrogation.

Tatukhashvili, a former deputy department head

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Poland's Komorowski urges Georgia to sign EU treaty

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President of Georgia, Giorgi Margvelashvili (left), and President of Poland, Bronislaw Komorowski.

TBILISI, DFWatch–President of Georgia, Giorgi Margvelashvili, on Wednesday met with his Polish counterpart Bronisław Komorowski.

Margvelashvili spoke about Georgia’s integration with Europe and Poland’s experience in the same regard.

The two also discussed security

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