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TBILISI, DFWatch–After four days of students occupying a building at Tbilisi State University, Giorgi Gaprindashvili announced that he is withdrawing his candidacy for university chancellor.
“I am ready to step [aside] considering the interests
TBILISI, DFWatch–According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), Islamic State’s field commander Tarkhan Batirashvili, mostly known under his nom de guerre Abu Omar Shishani, has been ‘clinically dead’ for several days, Agence France Presse (AFP) reported.
TBILISI, DFWatch–Russians are constructing a new road near the Administrative Boundary Line (ABL) with Georgia’s breakaway region South Ossetia, at the village Jariasheni.
The State Security Service Sunday informed that the construction
TBILISI, DFWatch–A former Tbilisi prosecutor claims that the military inspection at the Defense Ministry used to collect videos depicting intimate situations of gay men during Saakashvili’s presidency, to use for blackmail.
Maia Mtsariashvili, a former prosecutor,
TBILISI, DFWatch–Education Minister Tamar Sanikidze is considering asking parliament to hold an inquest into the presence of intelligence agents at Tbilisi State University.
Saturday evening, Sanikidze met students at TSU who for the last three days
TBILISI, DFWatch–A man was detained on Saturday, charged with appropriating a plot of land in Tbilisi which belongs to an Egyptian citizen.
The investigation service of the Finance Ministry informed that a Georgian citizen called Giorgi fabricated documents in order
TBILISI, DFWatch–Prime Minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili on Saturday warned people who uploaded a sex video of an opposition politician to the Internet that they will be harshly punished.
In a statement issued on Saturday the PM explains that this will be an example
თბილისის სახელმწიფო უნივერსიტეტში უშიშროების ჩანერგილი აგენტის, ე.წ. ოდეერის არსებობა თავად რექტორმაც დაადასტურა და როგორც სტუდენტების ერთი ნაწილი ამტკიცებს, ის უნივერსიტეტის საქმეებში და კანცლერის არჩევნებში უხეშად ერევა.
TBILISI, DFWatch–A video depicting the sex life of a politician from the opposition was Friday posted on Youtube and privately sent to several Georgian journalists by e-mail.
Some of the media outlets disclosed the name of the person in the video, but later apologized.
Tsitelubani, DFWatch – The Iskanderov family members tell the story of life on the move, Meskh activism in Georgia, and challenges of life at the ABL.
When DF Watch first knocked on Salim Iskanderov’s door, he was suspicious.