Day: July 7, 2025
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Tornike Rizhvadze, former head of the Adjara Autonomous Republic government, was hospitalized on July 7 with a gunshot wound in the chest, the Georgian Interior Ministry reported.
Rizhvadze was admitted to a hospital in Sagarejo, the eastern Georgian Kakheti region, where he received emergency care. The Ministry cited doctors as saying that he sustained a lung injury and that his condition is stable but serious.
The Ministry said that an investigation is underway under Article 115 of the Criminal Code, concerning “incitement to suicide.” One person has been detained under Article 238 of the Criminal Code, involving “negligent storage of firearms,” MIA reported.
Rizhvadze had led the government of the seaside Adjara region since 2018, until announcing his resignation on April 4. His departure was part of a broader, ongoing wave of resignations among high-ranking Georgian Dream officials.
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