Day: September 2, 2025

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Cash U.S. dollars from Azerbaijani households are flowing into banks at their fastest pace in two years, signalling renewed confidence in the local financial system and a shift in currency dynamics, Azernews reports.

An agreement on cooperation in the field of education has been signed between the Government of the Republic of Azerbaijan and the Government of the Federative Republic of Brazil, Report informs, citing the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan.

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif met with President Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Summit in Tianjin, China.#PakistanAzerbaijan #SCO2025 #ShehbazSharif #IlhamAliyev #TurkiyaKhabar #RegionalCooperation #SouthCaucasus pic.twitter.com/np7i9fxwoc

— Turkiye Khabar (@turkiye__khabar) September 2, 2025

Police have detained 16 people during a protest march on Rustaveli Avenue – activists Tatia Afriamashvili and Albi Kordzaia are among those detained.

According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, all of the people are being detained under administrative law. via @Publika_ge pic.twitter.com/vWsJAKOsND

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Police reported detaining 16 people during a rally on Tbilisi’s Rustaveli Avenue on September 2, as activists gathered outside parliament on a tense day marked by protest-related guilty verdicts and the reconvening of Georgian Dream’s one-party legislature for its fall plenary session.

The Interior Ministry said the protesters were arrested after refusing to comply with “repeated calls” from the police to stop blocking traffic. The detainees face charges under the Administrative Violations Code, though the exact article has not yet been specified.

Tense footage from the scene showed police officers forcibly dragging away protesters and pushing them into police vans amid noise.

The detainees, as identified by other activists, include Davit Gunashvili, Data Kashiashvili, Albi Kordzaia, Shushana Matsaberidze, Beka Papashvili, Nene Gablaia, Dani Maghradze, Tata Peradze, Lasha Dgebuadze, Tika Pataraia, Tatia Apriamashvili, Anuki Chrdileli, and Luka Chokhonelidze, Ani Chincharauli, and Anuki Chrdileli, among others.

Protesters rallied near the Parliament building as Georgian Dream veteran Tea Tsulukiani presented a voluminous report compiled by the GD’s investigative commission on alleged crimes of former officials, including during the United National Movement rule. The findings, expected to be used in a constitutional appeal seeking to ban opposition parties, include controversial claims like blaming Mikheil Saakashvili’s government for starting the 2008 Russo-Georgian war.

The protest also followed two controversial verdicts earlier in the day.

The Tbilisi City Court sentenced eight demonstrators detained during late 2024’s rallies to between two and two and a half years in prison on charges of organizing and participating in a group activity “disrupting public order.” In a separate case, the court sentenced a Russian activist, Anton Chechin, arrested during December’s pro-EU protests, to eight and a half years on serious drug-related charges believed to be politically motivated.

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