Monday, December 8, 2025

Ivanishvili has abandoned the idea of hosting TV show

Ivanishvili will not be a host in talk-show 2030 (photo: Channel 1)
Ivanishvili will not be a host on the talk show ‘2030’, which is to go on air next month. (Photo: Channel 1.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Former Georgian PM Bidzina Ivanishvili has finally abandoned the idea to host a political talk show on a TV channel owned by his rapper son Bera. 

The launch of the talk show has been postponed several times. Finally, in the end of 2014, it was announced

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Traffic restrictions lifted on most roads in Georgia after heavy snowfall

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Many roads have been closed until now due to heavy snowfall that began on January 6. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Traffic restrictions have been lifted on most road sections in Georgia after being closed due to heavy snowfall that began on January 6.

According to the most recent data from the road department, traffic is now moving freely through the Rikoti

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Chemtai Yegon – a Kenyan woman living and teaching in Georgia

Teaching in Tserakvi village. Chemtai definitely prefers living in the village. "If my university was in the village I would go tomorrow"
Teaching in Tserakvi village. Chemtai definitely prefers living in the village. “If my university was in the village I would go tomorrow”

When Chemtai Yegon, a young woman from Kenya, came to Georgia a few years ago to teach English and study Georgian, she faced a lot of challenges, like her first real winter with frost and snow, ‘no one speaking English’, and some encounters with aggressive

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Locals in Tbilisi demonstrating against Chinese road construction company

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Representatives for the company Sinohydro Corporation Ltd met Kvemo Kartli governor Giorgi Mghebrishvili and Rustavi mayor Davit Jikia in April 2014. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–In a village just south of the Georgian capital Tbilisi, locals are protesting against a Chinese company which they claim is destroying their farm land.

Residents in Krtsanisi fear that if the company continues its work, a road leading to the village

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Snowfall causing interruptions several places in Georgia

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Two Latvian tourists are stranded in the Jvari pass due to the snow. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Two Latvian tourists are stranded in Jvari pass in the north of Georgia. Snowfall is also causing other problems in parts of Georgia. Some areas in the north are without electricity and food supplies.

A rescue operation is underway in Jvari pass

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Weak ruble and new immigration law impacting Armenians in Georgia's south

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Statue in Akhalkalaki of Mesrop Mashtots, the creator of the Armenian alphabet. (Interpressnews.)

It is a hard winter for ethnic Armenians living in Georgia’s southern Samtskhe-Javakheti region. The fall of the ruble has led to less money being sent home from relatives who have found jobs in Russia, and Georgia’s new immigration law is forcing people

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