Sunday, December 14, 2025

Results canceled at two precincts after video shows fraud

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The government coalition claims a video published by National Movement which appears to show election fraud was staged. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Election results at two Georgian precincts were canceled Tuesday, as a result of a controversial video published by the National Movement party, which lost the local election in that area.

The video is made by the organization Free Zone, which

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Georgia improves its position on Global Peace Index

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Georgia climbed 28 places on the Global Peace Index 2014. (Click on image to visit the report web site.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia has improved its standing on the latest Global Peace Index by 28 places and is now 111 among 162 countries.

The index, which was published Thursday by the Institute for Economics and Peace, gave Georgia 2.22 points.

It says Georgia

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Georgian wins European junior wrestling championship

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Tarzan Maisuradze won the European junior wrestling championship in Katowice. (Photo by Sport Zone.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–The Georgian wrestler Tarzan Maisuradze on Tuesday won the European junior wrestling championships in Katowice, Poland.

Maisuradze won in Men’s Junior Freestyle 74 kg, defeating Konstantin Gkontsis from Greece, Murat Erturk from Turkey,

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Georgia's PM claims more power from the president

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Prime Minister Irakli Gharibashvili. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–The government in Georgia wants to take away one more power from the president: the right to award two top awards.

The awards in question are the Shota Rustaveli award and the National awards of Georgia. The government wants to give

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Music festival KaZantip defends against splinter group

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Photo published by the Anaklia organizing group.

TBILISI, DFWatch–The Republic of KaZantip, until now residing in Crimea, seems to be experiencing its own share of separatism, but it’s hard to figure out who is breaking away from whom.

Perhaps it is more fitting to call the music festival uprooted

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Hate crime vs hooliganism

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Sarah Delys is a criminologist working for Human Rights Education and Monitoring Centre in Tbilisi.

Last month marked the one-year anniversary of the LGBT rally which turned violent in Tbilisi. The tense situation in the country in the run-up to the International Day Against Homophobia made activists resolve to a silent protest [1] this year.

A few days

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Another landslide blocks main east-west road in Georgia

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Clean-up work is ongoing in Rikoti pass after a second landslide blocked the road again. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Another landslide Tuesday blocked the main road that connects western and eastern Georgia.

The first landslide damaged the road through Rikoti Pass on June 12, but the pass was cleaned and reopened after a few days.

Tuesday morning

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Georgians waiting to see what the EU treaty will bring

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Socially vulnerable are in difficult situation in Georgia. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Technical preparations for Georgia and Moldova signing free trade treaties with the European Union ended Monday.

As ten days are left until the signing, there is little debate among ordinary Georgians about what the treaty will really mean to

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