Monday, December 8, 2025

South Ossetia plans to impose customs tax at checkpoint near Akhalgori

Razdakhan border crossing
(cominf.org)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Breakaway South Ossetia plans to charge customs tax for goods to the region’s lower east corner, to the detriment of the Georgians living there who depend on the trade.

A customs point will be opened at the Razdakhan checkpoint near Akhalgori,

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Abkhazia calls Georgian PM’s language initiative ‘hypocritical’

PM Giorgi Kvirikashvili
PM Kvirikashvili’s initiative to protect Abkhaz language was met with a cold shoulder by the separatists in Sokhumi. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–An initiative by the prime minister of Georgia to protect the Abkhaz language has been rejected by Abkhazia’s de facto authorities as ‘Georgian populism’, ‘hypocrisy’ and ‘cynicism’.

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Georgians in Abkhazia cancel harvest, claim pesticide withheld by regime

Gali, Abkhazia
(Photo by Dominik K. Cagara.)

GALI, DFWatch–Georgian hazelnut farmer in Abkhazia canceled this year’s harvest after de facto authorities failed to hand out vital pesticide to battle a bug.

The bug has already ravaged farms in Western Georgia but the damage is even worse in the breakaway region

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Six far right activists arrested during anti-gay protest at football federation

TBILISI, DFWatch–Six far right activists were arrested Tuesday night at the office of the Georgian Football Federation’s (GFF) in Tbilisi, as they protested the wearing of a rainbow colored LGBT armband by one of the national team members.

The right wing nationalists demand that the federation

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