Day: November 12, 2025

UNESCO has included the 550th anniversary of the birth of Ashig Dirili Gurbani to its jubilee program, Azernews reports.

Giorgi Gakharia, former prime minister and now leader of the opposition For Georgia party, who is currently in exile, faces up to 13 years in prison as Georgian prosecutors charged him over his 2019 actions during “Gavrilov’s Night” and the Chorchana checkpoint developments, when he was serving as Interior Minister.

Prosecutor General Giorgi Gvarakidze said the authorities will seek pre-trial detention for Gakharia, who left Georgia months ago as the Georgian Dream government increasingly pressured him over decisions that the ruling party had once endorsed.

Authorities launched a probe into the Chorchana tensions – linked to the Interior Ministry’s 2019 placement of a police checkpoint along the Tskhinvali occupation line – this June, and about a month later, revived the largely shelved investigation into “Gavrilov’s Night,” the violent dispersal of protesters in June 2019.

The charges came about a week after authorities announced the prosecution of eight other opposition leaders – most of whom are already in jail – for “crimes against the state.”

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A Russian court has sentenced Guram Beruashvili, a 48-year-old Georgian national, to 28 years in prison in absentia for fighting for Ukraine as a “mercenary” and on several other criminal charges, Moscow prosecutors announced on November 12.

Beruashvili was found guilty of fighting as a mercenary in an armed conflict, illegally crossing Russia’s border, smuggling weapons and ammunition, and committing a terrorist act as part of an organized group, and illegally transporting, possessing, and storing firearms and ammunition. Prosecutors said Beruashvili is to serve the first eight years in prison and the remainder in a strict-regime penal colony.

Russian prosecutors claim that Beruashvili traveled to Ukraine in 2022, where he joined the International Legion voluntarily for “material gain.” They claim that in August 2024, as part of an “organized group of Ukrainian armed formations,” he illegally entered Russia’s Kursk region armed with a Kalashnikov rifle and ammunition, and engaged in armed resistance against Russian servicemen.

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• 10/04/2025 – Russian Court Sentences Georgian National to 9 Years for Fighting in Ukraine, Another to 14 in Absentia
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“The key infrastructure projects in our regions are almost complete. A positive turnaround has been achieved by the state in recent years, through state investment programs,” President Ilham Aliyev said at a meeting with newly appointed Presidential Plenipotentiary Representative in Nakhchivan and heads of several district executive authorities.

On November 12, the “Turkmentel-2025” International Exhibition opened at the Exhibition Center of the Ashgabat Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Alongside numerous foreign participants, more than 200 representatives from Turkmenistan took part in the event.