Saturday, November 8, 2025

Chemical plant in Georgia’s most polluted city gets green overhaul

TBILISI, October 29 – Georgia’s main chemical producer Rustavi Azot has completed a major modernization drive aimed at cutting emissions and improving energy efficiency. Regulators say the move could mark a turning point for Rustavi, the city often considered the country’s most polluted. The Singapore owned plant has overhauled key production units, installed cleaner technologies, … Read more

Scuffle outside National Movement office in Rustavi

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Georgian Dream and National Movement activists clashed in Rustavi Saturday. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–A scuffle developed Saturday as supporters of the ruling Georgian Dream coalition demonstrated outside the National Movement’s party office in Rustavi, a city 20 km south of the capital.

Mamuka Chikovani, the UNM candidate for Rustavi mayor,

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Bus drivers on strike in Rustavi, Georgia

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Minibus drivers in Rustavi demand that the competition is postponed at least three years. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Minibus drivers in Rustavi southeast of Tbilisi are on strike.

They are protesting against the competition for transport by City Council and demand to delay for three to five years the competition for inner city and Tbilisi-Rustavi transport.

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