Former Adjara leader in critical condition after gunshot wound

(Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–The former head of Georgia’s Adjara regional government, Tornike Rizhvadze, remains in critical condition after suffering a gunshot wound to the chest in what may have been a suicide attempt.

Rizhvadze was first hospitalized in Sagarejo before being transferred to a clinic in Tbilisi early Saturday morning.

Doctors report that Rizhvadze is on mechanical ventilation but showing signs of improvement. Levan Ratiani, director of Tbilisi’s First University Clinic...