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December 23, 2025

129th IPRM Meeting Held in Ergneti

The 129th meeting of the Incident Prevention and Response Mechanism (IPRM) was held on December 22 in the village of Ergneti, near the occupation line with Georgia’s Russia-occupied Tskhinvali region

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December 23, 2025

Ex-State Security Chief Grigol Liluashvili Arrested on Bribery Charges

Former head of Georgia’s State Security Service Grigol Liluashvili has been arrested on bribery charges involving multiple alleged schemes, including those related to Georgia's infamous scam call centers

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December 23, 2025

Tskhinvali Detains Civic Activist Tamar Mearakishvili on ‘Espionage’ Allegations

De facto authorities in Russia-occupied Tskhinvali have arrested Tamar Mearakishvili, a Georgian citizen and civic activist, accusing her of "espionage

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December 22, 2025

Days After His Release, Court Sets GEL 30,000 Bail for Zurab Japaridze in ‘Sabotage’ Case

A court ordered Zurab Japaridze, leader of the opposition Girchi – More Freedom party, to pay GEL 30,000 (about USD 11,000) in bail in a pending “sabotage” case, at a hearing held days after his release from prison, where he had served a sentence on separate charges of defying Georgian Dream's parliamentary commission

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December 22, 2025

GYLA Elects Tamar Oniani as New Chair

The board of the Georgian Young Lawyers' Association (GYLA), Georgia's leading human rights group, elected Tamar Oniani as its new chairperson on December 22, replacing Nona Kurdovanidze after her tenure expired

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December 22, 2025

Officials Hail ‘Sovereign, Pragmatic’ Foreign Policy as Ambassadorial Conference Kicks Off in Tbilisi

Georgian officials defended a “sovereign” and “pragmatic” foreign policy and railed against “external interference” as the annual Ambassadors’ Conference kicked off on December 22, a gathering bringing together Georgian diplomats and coming amid the country’s continued isolation from its traditional Western partners

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December 22, 2025

CSOs Appeal to International Watchdogs to Review Alleged Use of Chemicals at 2024 Protests

A group of twelve Georgian civil society organizations said they appealed to key international watchdogs to review what they described as serious human rights violations, including “the use of chemical and experimental crowd-control agents” by law enforcement during November-December 2024 demonstrations in Tbilisi

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December 22, 2025

Police Intensify Warnings to Crack Down on Sidewalk Rallies in Tbilisi

With the holiday season approaching and anti-government protests nearing 400 consecutive days, the Interior Ministry issued binding warnings, instructing demonstrators to confine Rustaveli Avenue rallies in Tbilisi to the parliament stairs and adjacent areas and "not to obstruct traffic" of pedestrians or vehicles

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December 19, 2025

Georgia Could Lose Visa Free ‘Entirely’, EU Commission’s Visa Report Warns

Citing "backsliding" on key commitments, the European Commission warned of "appropriate measures" against Georgia in its eighth visa-free suspension report, first to target holders of diplomatic, service, and official passports, with potential eventual suspension of visa-free travel for the entire population

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December 19, 2025

UK Calls on Georgia to Curb Russian Oil Imports Amid Wider Sanctions

The United Kingdom has called on Georgia to reduce its reliance on Russian oil and to strengthen efforts to prevent imports from the "Russian shadow fleet," a day after it sanctioned a company that recently shipped oil to a Georgian refinery

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December 19, 2025

Georgia’s Foreign Trade Up 9.5% in January-November 2025

Georgia’s external merchandise trade, excluding non-declared trade, totaled USD 23

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December 19, 2025

Georgia’s GDP Up 6.4% in Q3 2025

Georgia’s real gross domestic product (GDP) grew by 6

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December 18, 2025

Azerbaijan Sends First-in-Decades Fuel Shipment to Armenia by Train via Georgia

A train with Azerbaijani fuel is to pass Georgia en route to Armenia, marking the first such shipment in decades amid an unfolding broader peace process between the two South Caucasus countries after prolonged conflict

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December 18, 2025

Mikheil Kavelashvili Visits Serbia

On December 17, the Georgian Dream-elected President Mikheil Kavelashvili started his visit to Serbia, marking his first official visit to a European country since assuming office

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December 18, 2025

International Group of Academics Call on Kobakhidze to ‘Rethink’ Education Reform

An international group of 65 academics engaged in Georgia's higher education has called on Georgian Dream Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze to “rethink” the government’s proposed National Reform Concept for Higher Education, warning that it risks closing “the last sphere in Georgia which is open to healthy dissent

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December 17, 2025

CoE Commissioner Presses Georgian Prosecutors on Accountability for Protest Crackdown

Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights Michael O’Flaherty has raised concerns over the progress in investigating the use of force by law enforcers against protesters last November and December, in a letter dated December 10 and addressed to Georgia’s Prosecutor General Giorgi Gvarakidze

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December 17, 2025

GD Adopts Laws Ending Voting for Georgians Abroad, Scrapping Anti-Corruption Bureau, ‘South Ossetia Administration’

The disputed Georgian Dream-led parliament is wrapping up its fall session by rubber-stamping laws ending voting for Georgians abroad, dissolving the Anti-Corruption Bureau and the Personal Data Protection Service, and scrapping the so-called South Ossetia provisional administration, among others

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December 17, 2025

NBG Keeps Key Refinancing Rate Unchanged at 8%

On December 17, the Monetary Policy Committee of the National Bank of Georgia (NBG) decided to keep its key refinancing rate unchanged at 8%, maintaining what it called “a moderately tight monetary policy

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December 17, 2025

EU Countries: Georgia’s Accession Process Has ‘Effectively Come to Standstill’

Georgia’s EU accession process had “effectively come to a standstill,” according to a document issued by the EU Council presidency and backed by 26 member states, which also called on Tbilisi to free "all arbitrarily detained politicians, journalists and activists" and meet visa-free travel benchmarks “without delay

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December 16, 2025

Police Arrest 49 Over Links with ‘Thieves’ World’

Georgian police arrested 49 people linked with the so-called "thieves' world," in a major nationwide operation targeting a criminal underworld, Deputy Interior Minister Aleksandre Darakhvelidze announced on December 16

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