Friday, December 5, 2025

Georgian parliament close to wrapping up controversial probe into UNM-era crimes

TBILISI, DFWatch–A temporary parliamentary investigative commission in Georgia is continuing its controversial probe into alleged abuses committed during the 2003–2012 rule of the United National Movement (UNM). The commission, chaired by MPs affiliated with the ruling party and the splinter group “People’s Power,” has received a one-month extension, with its mandate now running until July … Read more

Georgian parliament approves new government

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(Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–The Georgian parliament Saturday passed a vote of confidence in a new cabinet government formed after Georgian Dream won a landslide in the October 8 election.

110 MPs voted for and 19 against a cabinet, which had only three personnel changes

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'Mastermind of Istanbul attack was an agent for Saakashvili'

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Sozar Subari. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Two leading politicians in Georgia believe that Akhmed Chatayev, the suspected mastermind of the terrorist attack at Istanbul’s Ataturk Airport, was an ‘agent of the previous government.’

“It turns out that this prominent terrorist [Chatayev] was an agent

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