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Armenian authorities have released Nagorno-Karabakh Armenian refugee Artur Osipyan, who was detained shortly after a heated exchange with Pashinyan, from pre-trial detention following a petition by a group of civil society representatives who offered to stand as guarantors for him.
The Zamoskvoretsky District Court of Moscow has extended the pre-trial detention of Alina Dzhikaeva, the editor-in-chief of the North Caucasus media outlet Sapa Media.
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A court in Paris is trying seven Georgian nationals accused of stealing rare editions of books by renowned Russian authors — including Alexander Pushkin — from libraries across France. If convicted, each faces up to 10 years in prison.
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Mamuka Artmeladze, a 43-year-old Georgian citizen, has died at an US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facility in the state of Louisiana.
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Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan continues to receive congratulations for his Civil Contract party’s victory in the parliamentary elections, though Russian President Vladimir Putin has notably not yet done so.
Russian independent outlet Meduza, citing an employee of a major Kremlin-friendly media organisation, reported that Russia’s presidential administration had instructed state-run and pro-government media to present the election results as a ‘loss’ for Pashinyan, specifically using that wording.
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze has welcomed the latest figures from the country’s National Statistics Bureau (Geostat) showing nearly 50% growth in foreign direct investment (FDI), while promising further economic measures to sustain the trend.
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Georgian Prime Minister and chair of the ruling Georgian Dream party, Irakli Kobakhidze, referred to himself as the ‘second person’ in the party, apparently implying that the first is the party’s billionaire founder and honorary chair, Bidzina Ivanishvili.
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The Georgian opposition party founded by former Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia, has condemned what it called a ‘new phase of annexation’ in South Ossetia following the nomination of a former Russian official, ethnic Ossetian Marat Kambolov, as prime minister.
Businessperson Gagik Tsarukyan has been placed under investigation on charges of large-scale tax evasion just two days after the 7 June parliamentary elections.
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Mamuka Artmeladze, 45, was found ‘unresponsive’ in ICE custody.
Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze spent nearly eight minutes praising and defending the founder of the ruling party, Bidzina Ivanishvili.
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Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze has welcomed the latest figures from the country’s National Statistics Bureau (Geostat) showing nearly 50% growth in foreign direct investment (FDI), while pr...
