Sunday, December 14, 2025

Ivanishvili plans to build new hotel on the border with Abkhazia

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Ganmukhuri is symbolic because it lies on the “Abkhaz” side of the border river Inguri.

TBILISI, DFWatch–Former Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili has revealed a plan to build a luxury hotel in western Georgia on the border with the breakaway region Abkhazia.

He told journalists on Friday that he also has some other plans which he will disclose when they are approved.

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"კონიფამანია" აფხაზეთში

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აფხაზეთი გამარჯვებას ზეიმობს (Facebook)

ოკუპირებულ აფხაზეთში არაღიარებული ტერიტორიული წარმონაქმნების ე.წ. მსოფლიო საფეხბურთჩემპიონატი უდიდეს დღესასწაულად იქცა, რომელიც „ოქროს ასოებით“შევა  „რესპუბლიკის“ ისტორიაში.

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UN: Georgian IDPs have right to return to Abkhazia and South Ossetia

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IDPs from Abkhazia living in a Sanatorium in Western Georgia (DFWatch)

TBILISI, DFWatch–For the ninth consecutive year, the United Nations General Assembly on June 7 passed a resolution calling for the return of internally displaced persons (IDPs) from the wars in Georgia in the early 1990s.

The first resolution

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Chair of EU parliament supports visa liberalization for Georgia

EP President
Schulz wrote the Georgia has fulfilled all criteria for visa liberalization. (Twitter.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–The president of the European Parliament, Martin Schulz, on Wednesday used his Twitter account to voice support for Georgia getting visa-free travel with the Schengen area without delay.

Mr Schulz’s statement comes shortly after EU states decided to delay

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Azerbaijani Insiders Benefited from Currency Collapse

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(OCCRP)

by Dave Bloss, Miranda Patrucic, Khadija Ismayilova and OCCRP Azerbaijan

06 June 2016

The First Family of Azerbaijan and a close business partner made a series of financial transactions in the days and weeks before a crippling 2015 devaluation of the national currency that eventually earned them at least 100 million manat (US$ 64 million) in just two deals while additionally protecting their banks and companies.

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