Friday, December 5, 2025

Refugees picketed Saakahsvili's annual speech to parliament

Refugees have organized to get the attention of authorities. Resettlement plans are just not working, and refugees are coming back to Tbilisi, after failing to settle in in the village where they were forced to move. (Photo: Mari Nikuradze.)

TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgia’s president Mikheil Saakashvili was not only confronted with objections to his rule inside the parliament building Tuesday. On the outside, people had gathered, banging pots with spoons in protest against his eight years leading the former

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Saakashvili recommends mud bath to opponent, leaves debate

Opposition MP Jondi Baghaturia accused the family of Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili of business lobbying. Saakashvili interrupted him, offered to order Baghaturia a round of treatment at his father's therapeutic mud bath, and then left the room for several minutes. (Photo: Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch – There were tough exchanges in the Georgian parliament yesterday, with President Mikheil Saakashvili at one point leaving the room after recommending an opponent to take a therapeutic mud bath to get rid of his delusions.

The situation became so heated that

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Saakashvili: Georgia's election is a matter of national security

'The enemy is awake' and will try to disturb the election, says Georgia's president Mikheil Saakashvili. (Photo: Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch – The president of the former Soviet republic of Georgia says this fall’s parliamentary election will be an important exam and says “conducting the freest elections which have ever been conducted is a question of national security.”

Mikheil Saakashvili

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Saakashvili: My force will govern for many years

The force is with him. Georgia's president Mikheil Saakashvili said he himself will be a part of moving the country forward after he leaves office next year. Many speculate that he might remain in power as prime minister. (Photo: Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili says his political force ‘has the resources to govern for many years and will never refuse this.’

The statement came during an annual speech to parliament Tuesday.

Giorgi Targamadze, leader of the Christian

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Saakashvili woos Russian business with visa-free travel

"Where there are economic relations, there is no place for tanks,” Georgia's president Mikheil Saakashvili says, and lifts visa rules for all Russians. Today, citizens of Russia's seven northern Caucasus republics can enter Georgia without a visa. (Photo: Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgia’s president, Mikheil Saakashvili, said Tuesday night that Georgia will lift visa requirements for all Russians.

Saakashvili was holding his annual speech to parliament about the state of the nation.

“I have an new initiative to unilaterally

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