Georgia’s arrested former president Mikheil Saakashvili has said that both he and Georgia’s first president Zviad Gamsakhurdia were targeted by forces opposed to the country’s independence, claiming that despite persecution, fighting for the nation’s...
Metropolitan Shio Mujiri, Locum Tenens of the Patriarchal Throne of the Georgian Orthodox Church, has said that those who died during the events of April 9,1989, when Soviet troops violently dispersed a peaceful pro-independence protest in Tbilisi, m...
Wizz Air Malta, a Maltese low-cost airline and a subsidiary of the Hungarian low-cost airline group Wizz Air Holdings, will increase its flight frequency between Venice, Italy and Kutaisi, Georgia, for the 2026 summer navigation season. From May 15 ...
Germany’s Ambassador to Georgia, Peter Fischer, on Thursday marked the 37th anniversary of the 1989 April 9 tragedy, saying the day represents freedom and independence for Georgia. Speaking at the memorial, Fischer paid tribute to those who lost the...
Georgian President Mikheil Kavlashvili on Thursday paid tribute to the victims of the 1989 April 9 tragedy by laying flowers at the memorial in the capital city of Tbilisi. The presidential press service said Kavlashvili was joined at the memorial b...
Georgia’s fifth president, Salome Zourabichvili, on Thursday paid tribute to the victims of the April 9 tragedy at the memorial in the capital city of Tbilisi, saying the protesters “stood to the very end” in defence of the country’s independence. “...
The Ambassador of Denmark, Anne Toft Sørensen, on Thursday joined Nordic and Baltic counterparts in paying tribute to the victims of the April 9 tragedy. The diplomats laid flowers at the April 9 memorial in the capital city of Tbilisi, honouring th...
Police in Georgia’s Black Sea resort city of Batumi have arrested a Ukrainian citizen on charges of illegal purchase and possession of a particularly large quantity of narcotics, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia said on Thursday. The body...
The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Thursday said Russia had lost about 1,307,540 troops in Ukraine since 24 February 2022, including an estimated 1,040 casualties over the past day. The reported total combat losses of Russian forces...
The acting US Ambassador to Georgia, Alan Purcell, on Thursday paid tribute to those killed during the April 9 tragedy. In a statement, the US Embassy in Georgia commemorated the victims of the 1989 events, when Soviet forces violently dispersed pea...
