Monthly Archives: September 2020

Locals in Javakheti blocked for several hours road at the border with Turkey

By | September 30th, 2020|Categories: News|Tags: , |

(Jnews.ge) Ethnic Armenians of Georgia’s Javakheti regions blocked for several hours Tuesday a road that connects Georgia with Turkey and didn’t let trucks with Turkish numberplates in at the village of Kartsakhi, Akhalkalali Municipality. About a thousand people, mostly men, participated in the rally, local news agency Jnews reports. They suspect Turkey transfers weaponry [...]

Tensions high in Georgia as ethnic Armenians, Azerbaijanis rally to support sides in Karabakh war

By | September 29th, 2020|Categories: News|Tags: , , , |

Registration of volunteers at Ninotsminda stadium. (Radio Nor) Ongoing armed conflict between Azerbaijan and breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh has had strong repercussion in Georgia with its ethnic Armenian and Azerbaijan minorities. Both groups hold mass rallies in support of their ethnically kin states. People in Akhalkalaki and Ninotsminda, two municipalities in southern part of the country [...]

UNM embraces four minor parties to defeat “oligarch Bidzina Ivanishvili”

By | September 15th, 2020|Categories: News|Tags: , , , , , , , , |

Coalition presentation. (Newposts.ge) Georgia’s largest opposition force forms an electoral block with four small political parties to propose candidacy of ex-President Mikheil Saakashvili for PM office. State for the People, Republican Party, Chven Tviton, and Progress and Freedom joined ranks with UNM to defeat “oligarch Bidzina Ivanishvili” and signed a formal agreement on Tuesday. [...]

Russian MP claima Georgia might have been involved in Navalny poisoning

By | September 2nd, 2020|Categories: News|Tags: , , , , |

Yuri Shvytkin. (Facebook) As the world, and democratic forces in Russia, remain shocked by cold-blooded poisoning of President Putin’s top foe by Novichok, the Kremlin points at Georgian and the United States as possible perpetrators. Russia is not engaged in the manufacture of chemicals from the Novichok group, such laboratories are located in Georgia [...]

Anger in SO triggers political crisis, MPs boycott sessions

By | September 2nd, 2020|Categories: News|

Chief prosecutor Uruzmag Jagaev (Cominf.org) Situation in the breakaway South Ossetia remains tense after torture and death of a 28 y/o local man by police. The opposition and relatives keep on holding rallies in Tskhinvali, while the deputies at the de facto parliament have started boycotting sessions. Opposition MPs, who constitute majority in de [...]