Monday, December 15, 2025

National Movement under investigation for faking persecution

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Justice Minister Thea Tsulukiani has asked Prosecutor’s Office to investigate whether the National Movement’s candidates are pretending to be under pressure. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili’s party is under investigation for pretending to be victim of political persecution. 

Justice Minister Thea Tsulukiani has asked the Prosecutor’s Office to investigate whether the National Movement

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Barroso visits Georgia to underline EU's support

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José Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission. (Photo published by the EU.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–José Manuel Barroso will visit Georgia Thursday and Friday.

The two day stopover will be the EU Commission president’s first official visit to Georgia.

Barroso is arriving from Moldova, and will leave for Azerbaijan on June 14.

During

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One more brutal murder case from 2008 reopened

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Nino Giorgobiani, spokesperson for the Ministry of Internal Affairs. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–A few days before the local elections, the Interior Ministry in Georgia has gone public with details of yet one more crime conducted by Saakashvili’s government in which opponents were treated with a brutality reminiscent of Scorsese movies.

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Family of murdered ranger demonstrate outside UNM office

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The family of murdered ranger Davit Tsendeliani demonstrated outside the National Movement party office on Wednesday. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–The family of a forest ranger who was killed in 2008 demonstrated in Zugdidi Wednesday.

Ranger Davit Tsindeliani is still formally missing, but is believed to have been killed in August 2008, after the war between Russia and Georgia.

His family

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Audit Office wants to fine three political parties

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The Audit Office monitors the financial activities of political parties. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–The State Audit Office wants to fine the political parties Alliance of Georgia’s Patriots, Conservative Party and Georgia’s Way.

The body which monitors the financial activity of political parties claims that Alliance of Georgia’s Patriots didn’t declare donations

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Workers rally outside clinic treating burnt miners

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The workers want back the Labor Inspection to ensure a safer workplace environment. (Photo published by GTUC on Facebook.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia’s Trade Union demonstrated outside a hospital in Tbilisi on Tuesday to show solidarity with workers who were burnt in a fire in a coal mine the day before.

Two of the injured workers after the fire in a Tkibuli coal mine are still in a difficult

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South Ossetia election raises specter of 'Crimean scenario'

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Spokesperson for Georgia’s Foreign Ministry, Davit Zalkaniani. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–The parliamentary election in South Ossetia Sunday was soundly won by a political bloc which wants the breakaway region to join the Russian Federation.

The party Edinaya Ossetia, or United Ossetia, has union with Russia as a

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Tbilisi court restores UNM's candidate in Marneuli

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The Central Election Commission has damaged its reputation, says National Movement activist Giga Bokeria. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Tbilisi City Court on Tuesday restored a National Movement candidate’s right to run in the June 15 local election.

Akmamed Imamkuliev was launched as the UNM’s candidate for gamgebeli in Marneuli, a town in southern Georgia.

But June 5,

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