Thursday, July 23, 2026

Georgia’s ruling GD prepares to ban opposition party UNM ahead of elections

TBILISI, August 3 – The United National Movement (UNM), which swept to power in Georgia’s 2003 Rose Revolution and ruled the country for a decade, overhauling public institutions and firing the entire police force, is now facing the prospect of being outlawed. A controversial parliamentary investigation is set to conclude on August 5 with a … Read more

UNM pledges not to prosecute Ivanishvili after elections

Giga Bokeria, Secretary of the Security Council (IPN)
Giga Bokeria, Secretary of the Security Council (IPN)

TBILISI, DFWatch–The National Movement will not prosecute Bidzina Ivanishvili and his supporters , Giga Bokeria, the party’s foreign affairs secretary said at a briefing on Wednesday.

Bokeria predicts ‘inevitable’ loss by the Georgian Dream,

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UK refuses to extradite former Georgian minister of defense

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Uk rejected Georgia to extradite Davit Kezerashvili (ipn)

TBILISI, DFWatch–‘Political prosecution’ was used as the justification for the London court’s refusal to extradite former UNM official who served as Minister of Defense of Georgia during 2008 Russo-Georgian War and was charged with numerous crimes after his party

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Usupashvili: Partnership with UNM ‘not serious’

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Usupashvili: We can’t speak seriously about a partnership with the United National Movement (2030)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Speaker of Parliament Davit Usupashvili flatly denied allegations that the Republican Party of Georgia, commonly known as the Republicans, was considering a partnership with the United National Movement (UNM) before the parliamentary

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