According to opposition aligned Mtavari Arkhi, in Zugdidi, police fined Mariam Sichinava, a member of the opposition Droa party, ₾2,000 ($710) for covering her face while attending demonstration. They reported that Sichinava had previously been fined under the same charge.
In light of what appear to be purges of public sector employees critical of the government, Irakli Pavlenishvili, Deputy Secretary General of the opposition group Unity — National Movement, has stated that ‘[Bidzina] Ivanishvili and his team’ will not be able to ‘gather the critical mass that is necessary for even an authoritarian regime to function because […] a very large part of public servants are against establishing a dictatorship in this country’.
Speaking to BPN, a representative of one of the hotels in Gudauri, a ski resort in northern Georgia, has claimed that 80% of reservations have been canceled, and that European tourists said the reason was Georgia’s EU u-turn. The hotel representative told local media that ‘80% of bookings in December were cancelled, as were those in February. A large part of the bookings were cancelled by Europeans, who, when we asked them, directly answered that the reason was the change in the country’s Europ
The President of China, Xi Jinping, has congratulated disputed Georgian President Mikheil Kavelashvili on his inauguration. ‘Xi Jinping pointed out that the current China-Georgia strategic partnership maintains a positive development momentum’, a statement by China’s Foreign Ministry read. ‘I attach great importance to the development of China-Georgia relations and am willing to work with the President to continue the traditional friendship between the two countries, deepen mutually beneficial
Several dozen people have gathered in Tkibuli in western Georgia to protest against the dismissals of miners from the Saknakhshiri mining company. Netgazeti reported that citizens from Tbilisi also arrived in Tkibuli today to express solidarity. According to local media, Saknakhshiri fired 38 miners at the end of 2024. Some miners believe that their dismissal was politically motivated, because they supported Georgia’s European future and attended demonstrations. OC Media reported in December
After 27 years of broadcasting local media, TV channel Borjomi stated on 31 December that they ‘temporarily’ stopped working. Speaking to Formula, Ekaterine Nozadze, the representative of the channel, stated that the decision is connected to the financial problems and ‘other crises’ which began after the controversial foreign agent law was adopted. ‘This is a temporary crisis, not a permanent one. We have temporarily suspended broadcasting, we have the right to suspend broadcasting for several
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