Friday, January 23, 2026

Cable theft plunges part of Georgia’s main highway into darkness

TBILISI, January 15 – Cable thefts targeting highway lighting along one of Georgia’s main east–west transport routes have raised safety concerns, prompting warnings from road authorities. Georgia’s Roads Department said several incidents of damage and theft of external lighting cables have been recorded in recent months along sections of the E60 Tbilisi–Senaki–Leselidze highway, including the … Read more

E60 through Georgia cut off by flood for the third time

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The water level in River Chkhara was still too high for repair work to begin on Monday. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–A section of the E60, the main highway east-west through Georgia, has once more been cut off because a river spilled over its banks near Kutaisi.

The damaged section is the 206th km of the Tbilisi-Senaki-Leselidze road, the same section which

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Flood severs main highway through Georgia – again

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The E60 was closed due to flood a second time near Kutaisi. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–A section of the E60, the Tbilisi-Senaki-Leselidze road in western Georgia, was damaged again on Sunday due to flooding.

This is the second time flooding has damaged the road. After flooding hit a few days ago, repair work allowed the road

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