2012-08-09 According to the report of Guria News, on August 9, 2012, one of the dwellers of the village Tskhemliskhidi, Nugzar Giorgadze who is a supporter of the coalition Georgian Dream, found saplings of a precious Empress Tree that he had planted in his own plot cut down to the ground. Nugzar Giorgadze believes that it was an act of retribution, although he can’t specify the person who cut down the saplings. However, in an interview with The ISFED’s LTO, he says that the incident happened after the confronted the municipal authorities.