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Footage of the incident was broadcast by Mtavati TV.

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Georgian TV crew attacked near Davit Gareja

by Shota Kincha

•3 min read

A TV crew from opposition-leaning channel Mtavari has been attacked by unknown men while reporting from the disputed Davit Gareja Monastery Complex in Georgia’s southeast border with Azerbaijan. The footage released by Mtavari on Tuesday showed the journalists, along with Georgian cartographer Iveri Melashvili, whom they intended to interview at the site, being accosted on two separate occasions by a group of men, some of whom wore the attire of the Orthodox Christian clergy. Sections of t

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Georgia blames former ‘senior officials’ for Davit Gareja border dispute

by Shota Kincha

•3 min read

The latest from the Georgian probe into two former officials accused of pursuing an adverse border arrangement with Azerbaijan has hinted at yet unidentified senior officials under the former government. The critics fear that the case might be politically motivated. On 21 January, the Georgian Prosecutor’s Office unveiled surveillance materials involving Iveri Melashvili and Natalia Ilichova, the two Georgian cartographers indicted for forfeiting state lands to Azerbaijan. The prosecution ar

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Georgia investigates ‘illegal concession of territories’ over Davit Gareja

by Shota Kincha

•4 min read

A month before parliamentary elections, the Georgian authorities have launched an investigation into an ‘illegal concession of territories’ to a neighbouring country under the previous government. On 5 October, former President Mikheil Saakashvili accused the government of conducting a sham investigation by accusing him of giving away Georgian territories to Azerbaijan in the mid-2000s. The Georgian Prosecutor’s Office announced an investigation looking into the work of members of the Gov

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Azerbaijan warns of Georgian ‘provocateurs’ at border near Davit Gareja

by OC Media

•4 min read

The Azerbaijani State Border Service has warned that the organisers of ‘provocations’ at the border with Georgia will be ‘held responsible’. They claimed on 3 June to have learnt a plot by four people to violate the border near the disputed Davit Gareja monastery complex (known as Keshikchidagh in Azerbaijan) the following day. On 4 June, the border service said that they had foiled the plot with the help of their Georgian counterparts. The warning came a day after it emerged that the Georgi

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Opinion | Only Moscow benefits from rising Tbilisi-Baku tensions

by Richard Kauzlarich

•3 min read

A recent flare-up of a long-standing border dispute between Georgia and Azerbaijan serves neither country’s interests and must be tamped down immediately. The only beneficiary in seeing these two neighbours go at it would be Russian President Vladimir Putin. On 14 July, a group of Georgian citizens confronted an Azerbaijan border guard near the Keshikchidagh cave complex in a contested section of the Azerbaijan-Georgian border. Hardly noticed outside the region, this incident has led to ha

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Azerbaijan–Georgia row reignites over Davit Gareja monastery complex

by OC Media

•4 min read

The Davit Gareja monastery complex (known as Keshikchidagh in Azerbaijan) is at the centre of a new row following an altercation between Georgian activists and Azerbaijani border guards. Azerbaijan closed access to Udabno Monastery following the incident. On 14 July, Georgian Orthodox Christian parishioners and activists confronted Azerbaijani border guards while attempting to return Georgian Orthodox icons to caves and monastic cells on the disputed south-west slope of the 6th-century com

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Azerbaijan restores Georgian access to Davit Gareji monastery

by OC Media

•4 min read

Azerbaijan has restored access to Udabno Monastery, a part of the Davit Gareji Monastery Complex at the undelimited Azerbaijani-Georgian border in southeastern Georgia. Visitors and clergy were barred from reaching the monastery for several days by Azerbaijani border guards. Georgia and Azerbaijan share a 480-kilometre long border, a third of which has not yet been delimited. The monastery is situated on the undelimited border between the two countries. The ban followed a visit by Georgia