Sunday, December 14, 2025

UNM to rally to stop Supreme Court ruling against Rustavi 2

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UNM’s Nika Melia. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Activists from Georgia’s former ruling party are rallying in Tbilisi on February 10 in order to prevent the Supreme Court from ruling against the top people in the largest opposition TV station.

UNM’s Nika Melia said on Wednesday that the party of ex-President

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Text messages 'prove' Saakashvili ally pressured Georgia Supreme Court judges

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Davit Sakvarelidze, a Georgian who has worked as prosecutor both in his home country and in Ukraine, is accused of sending text messages to two Supreme Court judges in Georgia. He currently lives in Ukraine.

TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia’s top prosecutor on Tuesday presented text messages allegedly sent from Ukraine as proof that a close ally of former President Mikheil Saakashvili had tried to put pressure on two Supreme Court judges in a lawsuit that could silence

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Georgia cracks down on private school linked to Gulen network

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Prime Minister of Georgia Giorgi Kvirikashvili and President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. (Photo by the Georgian PM office.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgian authorities have suspended the accreditation of a private school with links to the Turkish Islamic cleric Fethullah Gülen, whom Ankara has accused of plotting the failed coup attempt on July 15, 2016.

The council of the National Center

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Georgia Supreme Court judges silent about who pressured them

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TBILISI, DFWatch–Two Supreme Court judges in the former Soviet republic of Georgia have still not revealed who tried to put pressure on them in a case about the ownership of a large TV station critical to the government.

Judges Besarion Arveladze and Paata Katamadze,

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Two of Georgia’s Supreme Court judges claim they were pressured

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Rustavi 2 director Nika Gvaramia.

TBILISI, DFWatch–Two judges in the Supreme Court of the former Soviet republic of Georgia have filed a formal request to the country’s top prosecutor to investigate an attempt to influence them.

The case led to an exchange of strong claims and counterclaims on Friday,

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Imedi-GDS merger heralds further consolidation in Georgian TV

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Ex-PM Bidzina Ivanishvili appearing on 2030, the main news show on GDS.

TBILISI, DFWatch–Imedi TV, one of Georgia’s largest TV stations, has bought GDS, a smaller company linked with billionaire and former Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili.

Imedi confirmed that it had purchased 100 percent of shares in the broadcasting company

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EU parliament greenlights visa-free entry for Georgians

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Tbilisi international airport. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–The plan to extend visa-free entry into Schengen to more than 3 million citizens of the former Soviet republic of Georgia passed another hurdle today, as the EU’s parliament approved the plan with a clear majority.

At a plenary session the 751 member assembly session endorsed

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