Monday, December 8, 2025

E60 through Georgia cut off by flood for the third time

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The water level in River Chkhara was still too high for repair work to begin on Monday. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–A section of the E60, the main highway east-west through Georgia, has once more been cut off because a river spilled over its banks near Kutaisi.

The damaged section is the 206th km of the Tbilisi-Senaki-Leselidze road, the same section which

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NDI poll shows small Georgian Dream lead, voters still indifferent

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The share of people who wouldn’t vote for any party or don’t know which one is down to 38% (yellow line), after reaching almost 50% in August. (National Democratic Institute.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–A poll published on Monday shows the ruling Georgian Dream coalition back in the lead, and a surge in voters’ apathy slightly abating.

The latest National Democratic Institute (NDI) poll, carried out in late November, early December, shows that if there

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Ukraine's Avakov in shouting match with Saakashvili at council meeting

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Mikheil Saakashvili (right) got up and left the meeting of the Reform Council after a shouting match with Arsen Avakov (left), who threw a glass of water at him.

TBILISI, DFWatch–Ukraine’s Interior Minister Arsen Avakov Wednesday published a video showing a quarrel between him and Mikheil Saakashvili, Governor of Odessa, and former President of Georgia.

The video shows them bickering and Avakov

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