Zaza Bibilashvili, founder of the Chavchavadze Center, has drawn a parallel between the current controversy over alleged unlawful crowd-control measures and the 9 April 1989 crackdown in Tbilisi, saying the government was repeating tactics once used ...
Giorgi Botkoveli, a senior figure in the opposition United National Movement (UNM), has accused the Georgian government of using criminal charges to target political opponents and entrench what he described as an emerging dictatorship. Botkoveli sai...
Georgia has expelled 26 foreign nationals following coordinated operations carried out by the Interior Ministry’s Migration Department and other units, officials said on Tuesday. The ministry said the individuals - citizens of India, Iran, Turkey, T...
Georgia’s Interior Ministry on Tuesday said police in Tbilisi had detained a Russian national on suspicion of illegally purchasing and possessing narcotic substances. According to the ministry, officers from the Tbilisi Police Department arrested th...
Georgia’s 2026 state budget, amounting to ₾36.3 billion ($13.47bln), will be approved this week, the highest figure in the country’s history, the leader of parliamentary majority, Irakli Kirtskhalia announced on Monday. He added the budget growth wa...
The leader of Georgia’s parliamentary majority, Irakli Kirtskhalia, on Monday said the EU Commissioner Marta Kos’s objective was “identical to the goal they have pursued toward Georgia since 2022: to turn our Government and our country into a puppet,...
The leader of Georgia’s parliamentary majority, Irakli Kirtskhalia, on Monday criticised the opposition party Lelo and the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE) during a briefing at the ruling party headquarters, addressing their react...
Georgian Parliament’s Diaspora Committee Chair Irakli Zarkua on Monday criticised what he described as “double standards” within the European Union following the publication of a major EU-commissioned study on corruption risks across Europe. The rep...
Giorgi Volski, First Vice-Speaker of the Georgian Parliament, wrote on social media on Monday that “tens of billions” have vanished during the war in Ukraine and that weapons were sold off, arguing that such developments could not have happened witho...
Former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili wrote on social media on Monday that the ongoing investigation into alleged abuses against protesters last year, as claimed by recent BBC investigation, was superficial, effectively clearing the way for i...
