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December 16, 2025

Russia Renews Call for ‘Normalization’ with Georgia, Praises Tbilisi’s ‘Pragmatism’

Russia is "seriously committed" to normalizing relations with Georgia, but "the main thing" is that Tbilisi does not become “a bargaining chip in anti-Russian games,” Mikhail Kalugin, director of the Fourth Department of CIS Countries at Russia’s Foreign Ministry, told RIA Novosti on December 16

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December 16, 2025

Outspoken Georgian Orthodox Cleric Suspended From Performing Priestly Duties

Archimandrite Dorote Kurashvili, a Georgian Orthodox cleric known for his outspoken criticism of both the ruling Georgian Dream party and senior church leadership, has been suspended from performing priestly duties, according to a decision issued December 15 by the Georgian Patriarchate

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December 15, 2025

Russia Sentences Georgian National to 28 Years in Absentia for Fighting on Ukrainian Side

A Russian court has sentenced Georgian national Giorgi Partsvania to 28 years in prison in absentia on multiple charges related to his fighting on the Ukrainian side against Russian and separatist forces, Russia’s Investigative Committee said on December 12

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December 15, 2025

Monday Cable – December 15, 2025

Good Monday morning, dear readers, as we come back from a busy week to slide into what looks like an even busier week of parliamentary wrap-up and EU politics

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December 13, 2025

Georgia’s Public Employment Program is Ending. Was It Ever About Employment?

Georgia’s “300 Lari” public employment program for socially vulnerable citizens is quietly reaching its end

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December 12, 2025

Authorities to Create Centralized Mental Health Database Amid Rights, Stigma Concerns

Georgia’s disputed Parliament adopted laws requiring the Health Ministry to create a centralized database of people with mental health–related conditions, a move critics, including psychologists, warn could become a “tool for control, discrimination and manipulation

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December 11, 2025

GD PM Kobakhidze Visits Turkmenistan

Georgian Dream Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze arrived in Turkmenistan on December 11, marking his third visit to the country this year

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December 11, 2025

SSSG Denies Reports of Terror Threat Behind Israeli Delegation’s Planned Visit

The State Security Service of Georgia (SSSG) has dismissed media reports that the planned visit of Israeli Knesset members to Tbilisi was canceled due to a “potential terrorist attack

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December 11, 2025

ECtHR Grand Chamber Rules Georgia Violated Three Rights in 2019 ‘Gavrilov’s Night’ Crackdown

The Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruled on December 11 that Georgia violated three rights during the violent dispersal of the June 20-21, 2019, protests in Tbilisi, known as "Gavrilov's Night

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December 11, 2025

Georgian Dream Considers Moving State Institutions to Planned ‘Government Town’ in Tbilisi

Georgian Dream is considering relocating major state institutions to a vast “government town” on a hilltop in Tbilisi, as the state’s procurement service published market-research documents seeking contractors to prepare the master plan and conceptual designs for the 77-hectare complex

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December 10, 2025

Disputed Parliament Approves 2026 State Budget

Georgia's disputed parliament approved the 2026 state budget on December 10, with 80 MPs voting in favor and nine against

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December 10, 2025

Tbilisi Distances Itself From Reports of Transit Hub Construction in Abkhazia

Tbilisi has distanced itself from reports of the construction of a new motor-transport transit hub in the Gali area in occupied Abkhazia, which is reportedly intended to serve as an alternative transportation link between Georgia and Russia

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December 10, 2025

Disputed Parliament Tightens Protest Rules, Extends Restrictions to Pedestrian Areas

Georgian Dream MPs in the disputed parliament adopted legislative changes further tightening protest rules, including extending assembly restrictions to pedestrian zones and requiring organizers to submit advance notice of gatherings to the Ministry of Internal Affairs

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December 10, 2025

Georgian Dream Announces Conditional Write-Off of Energy Firms’ Debts

Georgian Dream Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze said the government will write off about one billion lari in accumulated debts of companies involved in renewable energy projects, but only on condition that they meet revised deadlines, warning that the debts will be reinstated if the terms are violated

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December 08, 2025

Georgian Dream Plans to Extend Anti-Protest Laws to Pedestrian Zones

The ruling Georgian Dream plans to extend anti-protest laws to pedestrian zones, introducing mandatory notice for such rallies and allowing administrative detention - and, for repeated acts, criminal sentences -for taking part in demonstrations that obstruct "uninterrupted movement of people," among others

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December 08, 2025

Azerbaijani Media Accuse Georgia of Border Delays, Tariff Pressure

Azerbaijani government-aligned media outlets have accused Georgia of deliberately obstructing Azerbaijani trucks at the border, as well as imposing high railway transit tariffs on Azerbaijani fuel destined for Armenia, insinuating emerging tensions between Baku and Tbilisi amid the announced Trump Route

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December 08, 2025

Education for ‘Free’ or Academic ‘Catastrophe’ – Controversial Reforms Reach Universities

"Georgian Dream - the first government in Georgia’s history to make higher education free!" reads a card published on the ruling party’s Facebook page on December 5, featuring Bidzina Ivanishvili, the party’s billionaire founder and honorary chairman

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December 08, 2025

Monday Cable – December 8, 2025

Good morning, dear reader

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December 05, 2025

TI-Georgia: Kulevi Oil Refinery May Raise Sanctions Evasion Suspicions in West

Transparency International (TI) Georgia, a local corruption watchdog, argued in its recent report that the Kulevi oil refinery on the Black Sea Coast may create conditions for Russian oil to be re-exported as a Georgian product, noting the West may see it as a sanctions evasion scheme for Moscow

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December 04, 2025

Georgia Backs UN Resolution Demanding Return of Ukrainian Children

Georgia was among the 91 countries that voted in favor of a United Nations General Assembly resolution on December 3 demanding the “immediate, safe and unconditional” return by Russia of all Ukrainian children who have been forcibly transferred or deported

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