Sunday, December 14, 2025

Free Democrats lose its members in Tbilisi City Council

Giorgi Muskhelishvili
Giorgi Muskhelishvili. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Representatives of former Defense Minister Irakli Alasania’s party have withdrawn as a faction in the city council. The reason, they explain, is ‘incompatibility’ with his party, the Free Democrats.

The Free Democrats Party was a member

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Homophobia in Georgia: tolerance is a myth

Levan Berianidze, Tamta Mikeladze, Ana Lobzhanidze
From left to right: Levan Berianidze, Tamta Mikeladze, Ana Lobzhanidze. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgians like to talk about tolerance as a part of the national psyche. But the ability to accept and live alongside people who are different from yourself seems to end when it comes to gays, lesbians and other sexual minorities.

According to NDI,

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Two veterinarians accused of fraud, approved unchecked meat

Big indoors bazaar, where the dangerous meat was sold
Deserters market, where the unchecked meat was sold. (DF Watch.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–The Finance Ministry’s Investigative Service on Thursday detained two veterinarians in Tbilisi for fraud that allowed potentially dangerous meat to get through to consumers.

Veterinarians Khvicha Bichiashvili and Mamuka Mzhavanadze are charged with

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Georgia's defense minister confirms controversial call to predecessor

Mindia Janelidze
Mindia Janelidze. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Defense Minister Mindia Janelidze has confirmed after five months that he talked on the phone with his predecessor Irakli Alasania, who was then visiting France. But he denies what Alasania claims he told him on phone in that conversation.

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