Tuesday, December 9, 2025

Usupashvili: Partnership with UNM ‘not serious’

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Usupashvili: We can’t speak seriously about a partnership with the United National Movement (2030)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Speaker of Parliament Davit Usupashvili flatly denied allegations that the Republican Party of Georgia, commonly known as the Republicans, was considering a partnership with the United National Movement (UNM) before the parliamentary

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The story of Azerbaijani journalist fleeing her country

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Investigative journalist Gulnur Kazimova from Azerbaijan Facebook)

By Delilah Damanova

TBILISI, DFWatch–Last week European House hosted another meeting of the Thinking Citizen Center, an alternative education initiative for Georgia’s ethnic Azerbaijanis. The Center’s vision is the intellectual and cultural transformation of ethnic

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Georgia marks NATO Week on the eve of Warsaw Summit

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Tbilisi City Council decorated with the NATO member state flags (Facebook)

Tbilisi, DFWatch – Two-day NATO–Georgia Public Diplomacy Forum in Tbilisi opened NATO Week 2016, which will last from 4 to 19 April.

‘Georgia’s NATO and EU integration is our return to the European family with whom we are linked to by our common values of democracy, freedom and human rights protection.

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Gori university lecturer claims she was fired because of anti-Stalinist views

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Arina Tavakarashvili. (Facebook.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–A lecturer at the University of Gori, a town 80km west of the capital, claims that she was fired because of her anti-Stalinist opinions.

Arina Tavakarashvili wrote on her Facebook page that the canceling of her lectures was related to the issue

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Georgian president calls for Karabakh de-escalation

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President Giorgi Margvelashvili addressing the Georgia-NATO forum in Tbilisi on April 5, 2016. (Facebook.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–President Giorgi Margvelashvili called for a ‘peaceful end to the tensions’ in the recent outbreak of violence in Nagorno-Karabakh, Rustavi 2 reported.

President made his remarks during the second day of the NATO–Georgia

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Demand for tougher regulation of surveillance following sex tapes scandal

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(DF Watch.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Organizations that are members of the campaign This Affects You Too on Monday called on the government to take measures to rein in the use of secret surveillance and wiretapping.

The groups also demand the resignation of Chief Prosecutor

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