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Giant tree-moving operation halted as Ivanishvili inspects site

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Ex-PM Bidzina Ivanishvili faced National Movement activists in Tsikhisdziri. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Ex-Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili halted work at Tsikhisdziri on Saturday, where three giant trees are being prepared to be carried by ship and replanted in a garden further north on the Black Sea coast.

An environmental group joined

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UNM activists join environmentalists in stopping Ivanishvili's tree-moving

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(Guerilla Gardening.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Five people were detained Wednesday during a rally in Tsikhisdziri on the Black Sea coast near Kobuleti.

They were protesting against the removal of three giant old trees which they suspect will be hauled by boat 40km up the coast

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