Saturday, January 24, 2026

Marneuli

Georgia and Turkey team up to arrest murder suspect

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TBILISI, January 8 – Georgia’s Interior Ministry says it has arrested a suspect over a deadly shooting at a jewelry store in the southern town of Marneuli, following a joint operation with Turkish police. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia, officers from Georgia’s Kvemo Kartli police and Turkey’s Artvin provincial police tracked … Read more

Bride-to-be stabs fiance after catching him with another woman

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TBILISI, August 18 – A young woman in the Georgian town of Marneuli allegedly stabbed her fiance after finding him in an apartment with another woman. The couple was set to marry on August 17. According to police, the bride-to-be showed up at the apartment accompanied by another woman, confronted her fiance, and then attacked … Read more

Farmers took to the streets, blocked major highway protesting strict quarantine measures

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Dozens of farmers took to the streets in Marneuli municipality Wednesday protesting strict quarantine regime and appealing to the authorities for assistance. Farmers, mostly ethnic Azerbaijani from nearby settlements, assembled at Shulaveri, a village five km south from Marneuli, an administrative center in Kvemo Kartli region, and blocked traffic on a road leading to Georgian-Armenian … Read more

Covid19 update: Georgia bans public gatherings, passenger traffic

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Georgia introduces new measures to tackle covid19 spread inside the country as total number of cases reaches 61 with seven new cases reported on Monday. The decree issued by the government on March 23 bans all social gatherings which involve ten people or more, including funerals, weddings, birthday parties, rallies, etc. The decree has been … Read more

Selective abortions still rife in Georgia’s ethnic Azerbaijani community

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People still actively request to determine the gender of the future child in advance during first trimester of the pregnancy in the municipalities inhabited by ethnic Azerbaijani people. 31-years-old Sakina Alieva from Marneuli has 5-years-old boy. Before having the boy she got two abortions because she was expecting girls.

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More ethnic Azeris are on the move from Georgia than ever before  

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Georgia is the most ethnically diverse state in the South Caucasus, with Azeri ethnic minorities constituting 6.3% of its population. They are present especially in the border province of Kvemo-Kartli, the region where unemployment and poverty that has spread over, pushing many ethnic Azeris to leave their place of origin.   

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Gunman wounds four ahead of Georgia's local elections

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Georgian Dream's party office in Kyzilajlo near Marneuli
People gathered outside the hospical in Marneuli, where the wounded Georgian Dream members were being treated. (1tv.ge.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–A gunman opened fire at a local office of Georgia’s ruling party Thursday night, wounding four people, two days before nationwide local elections that will gage the government’s hold on power.

The attack, which wounded a candidate for Georgian Dream,

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