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Georgian Dream Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze is visiting Singapore, where he has held meetings with the country’s political leadership and representatives of financial technology companies. Kobakhidze is accompanied by a Georgian Dream delegation that includes Foreign Minister Maka Botchorishvili, Economy Minister Mariam Kvrivishvili, and Head of the Government Administration Levan Zhorzholiani. They arrived in Singapore
Vakho Sanaia, a journalist and anchor at opposition-leaning Formula TV, was sent to 14 days of administrative detention over a Facebook post concerning Georgian Dream Parliament Speaker Shalva Papuashvili and MP Vladimer Bozhadze. While several people had previously been detained over social media statements that courts found “insulting” toward public officials, Sanaia is the first
Tskhinvali’s de facto “foreign ministry” said the European Union and its member states are exerting “pressure” on Syria’s new leadership over Damascus’ recognition of Georgia’s occupied territories, while Abkhazia’s de facto foreign minister said such efforts to reverse the recognition are “nothing new” following the fall of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in December 2024. The
Transparency International — Georgia, a local civil society organization, has published a list of 91 convicted people currently in detention whom it considers “political prisoners,” based on criteria set out in a resolution of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE). The list, published on July 21, includes mainly people convicted in connection
Rustaveli Avenue, Tbilisi’s central thoroughfare and the main site of protests in Georgia, will undergo full rehabilitation beginning on July 23, with traffic closed for the duration of the works, which are expected to be completed by the end of November, Tbilisi Mayor Kakha Kaladze announced on July 21. According to Kaladze, vehicular traffic will
Giorgi Chighladze, a Georgian man arrested on July 19 after hitting a Russian-speaking tourist woman in her hotel room in Telavi, has been released from the courtroom on GEL 5,000 bail (approximately USD 1,900). Telavi District Court judge Tamar Kapanadze granted prosecutors’ request for bail during the July 21 hearing. Chighladze still faces prosecution under
Worries are mounting that more Georgian opposition leaders may be sent – or rather returned – to prison for years amid intensifying court hearings in the so-called “sabotage” case, launched in November as prosecutors accuse eight political figures of “crimes committed against the state.” Three of those charged in the case – ex-President Mikheil Saakashvili,
Georgia’s external merchandise trade, excluding non-declared trade, reached USD 12.925 billion in January-June 2026, up 5.8 year-on-year, according to preliminary data released by the National Statistics Office of Georgia (Geostat) on July 20. Kyrgyzstan remained Georgia’s largest export market, while Turkey was the country’s top source of imports. Motor cars continued to dominate both exports and imports. Exports increased
A Georgian man, Giorgi Chighladze, was arrested and faces up to three years in prison after hitting a foreign national, a Russian-speaking woman, in her hotel room during a parallel wedding event in the Eastern Georgian region of Kakheti. While the woman’s friend, who posted the video of the physical attack on Instagram, claims that
The account of Nata Vibliani, a woman in her forties who said that she was repeatedly raped as a child in her community in Georgia’s northwestern Svaneti region, has prompted widespread calls for accountability more than 30 years after the alleged abuse began. The Interior Ministry told Civil.ge it is investigating the case. Vibliani, originally
