Friday, December 5, 2025

Bring back Tbilisi tram? Too expensive, says City Hall

Dmitry Yermakov
Dmitry Yermakov

TBILISI, DFWatch–Tbilisi City Hall is not planning to bring back the trams in the capital, despite a call from a member of Tbilisi City Council. City Hall will only considers it in a long-term perspective.

Aleko Elisashvili, independent member of Tbilisi City Council,

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Did government officials interfere with pardoning of prisoners?

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Aleko Elisashvili. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Government officials tried to pressure the president’s pardon commission into releasing certain prisoners, former commission head Aleko Elisashvili claims.

The current head of the pardon commission, Zviad Koridze, says he can confirm Elisashvili’s

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Journalist selected as head of president's pardon commission

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Aleksandre Elisashvili, a well-known TV journalist, is new head of the president’s pardon commission; one of two such bodies. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–President Giorgi Margvelashvili has replaced some of the members of the presidential pardon commission, one of two commissions which review applications from prisoners for reduced sentence or early release.

Aleksandre Elisashvili, a well-known

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