Sunday, March 8, 2026

Update: Restrictions on several roads due to snow

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Traffic restrictions on the Akhaltsikhe-Ninotsminda road are now lifted. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Traffic is still blocked along the road between Gudauri and Kobi in the north of Georgia due to danger of avalanche.

According to the Road Department, no vehicles are allowed through.

There are also the following restrictions on the Tkibuli

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Quota system in Georgian universities helps ethnic minorities, but is easy to abuse

TBILISI, DFWatch- The possibility to study Georgian intensively for one year and then to continue studies in any Georgian university seems like a great opportunity for students coming from ethnic minority background. How helpful is the integration program

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Chemtai Yegon – a Kenyan woman living and teaching in Georgia

Teaching in Tserakvi village. Chemtai definitely prefers living in the village. "If my university was in the village I would go tomorrow"
Teaching in Tserakvi village. Chemtai definitely prefers living in the village. “If my university was in the village I would go tomorrow”

When Chemtai Yegon, a young woman from Kenya, came to Georgia a few years ago to teach English and study Georgian, she faced a lot of challenges, like her first real winter with frost and snow, ‘no one speaking English’, and some encounters with aggressive

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Weak ruble and new immigration law impacting Armenians in Georgia's south

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Statue in Akhalkalaki of Mesrop Mashtots, the creator of the Armenian alphabet. (Interpressnews.)

It is a hard winter for ethnic Armenians living in Georgia’s southern Samtskhe-Javakheti region. The fall of the ruble has led to less money being sent home from relatives who have found jobs in Russia, and Georgia’s new immigration law is forcing people

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