Saturday, December 6, 2025

Cramped student houses in Tbilisi

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In one of the student houses on Kekelidze Street in Tbilisi, thirty students are sharing one bathroom. (DF Watch.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–At the end of Kekelidze Street, in Vake, one of Tbilisi’s most prestigious districts, there is a lane with small houses with tiny rooms.

Mostly students are living here, usually those who were born outside the capital.

They had to come here

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How NATO can open a path to membership for Georgia

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Mamuka Tsereteli is director of research at the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies.

Amid Ukraine Crisis, US Should Push to Remove an Obstacle

Mae West once said that “an ounce of performance is worth a pound of promises.” For Georgians, to whom NATO promised eventual membership in the alliance back in 2008, truer words have never been spoken.

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British citizen tells of racial discrimination in Tbilisi

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British dancer Aaron Shikamaru Charles says he is being repeatedly harassed because of the color of his skin in Tbilisi.

TBILISI, DFWatch–A British citizen says he has been subjected to racial discrimination in Tbilisi.

Dancer Aaron Shikamaru Charles has lived in Georgia for two years. His wife, Nutsa Eristavi, is Georgian and the artist couple carry out joint projects here.

Aaron says

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Georgian president will not attend signing of EU treaty

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President Giorgi Margvelashvili will not be present during the signing of a treaty between Georgia and the EU in Brussels on Friday.

TBILISI, DFWatch–The Georgian president, whose authority includes signing international treaties and who delegated the right to sign the Association Agreement with EU to the prime minister, won’t be in the Georgian delegation.

Foreign Minister Maia Panjikidze

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The missing page in the Association Agreements

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Why was child protection left out the EU’s agreement with Georgia? the authors ask.

On June 27, Georgia and Moldova will sign in Brussels the Association Agreements with the European Union that were initialed last year in Vilnius (Ukraine’s new authorities are expected to sign only the economic part of the Agreements on the same day).

After a high level meeting that took place last month between president

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Hate crime vs hooliganism

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Sarah Delys is a criminologist working for Human Rights Education and Monitoring Centre in Tbilisi.

Last month marked the one-year anniversary of the LGBT rally which turned violent in Tbilisi. The tense situation in the country in the run-up to the International Day Against Homophobia made activists resolve to a silent protest [1] this year.

A few days

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Two of Georgian president's top people left

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Vano Machavariani, foreign policy adviser to the Georgian president, left his job Friday. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–The Georgian president’s foreign policy adviser Vano Machavariani left his job on Friday. The head of the president’s administration, Lasha Abashidze, also resigned.

Both delivered a written resignation, but Machavariani told

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