TBILISI, February 3 – Students rallied on Monday after the government announced plans to merge two universities, a move that triggered a vigorous debate. There were protests at the first building of Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University (TSU), where students opposing the proposed merger with the Georgian Technical University (GTU) demanded to attend a meeting ... Read more
TBILISI, January 30 – Twenty-four member states of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe have activated the so-called ‘Moscow Mechanism’ to examine the human rights situation in Georgia, triggering one of the OSCE’s most serious monitoring procedures. The decision will lead to the deployment of an independent expert mission tasked with assessing recent ... Read more
TBILISI, January 30 – Georgia’s government has announced plans to merge the country’s flagship Tbilisi State University with its main technical university, triggering political protests in the capital. Education Minister Givi Mikanadze said TSU and the Georgian Technical University will be combined, and the merged institution will keep the name of Tbilisi State University. He ... Read more
TBILISI, January 29 – A Georgian actor who is on the cast of a Hollywood movie still sits behind bars, but his case was up for appeal Thursday. Actor Andro Chichinadze is one of 11 defendants in a case about anti-government protests who were arrested in December, 2024, following social unrest in the wake of ... Read more
