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Student activist group resumes rallying in Tbilisi University

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  Tbilisi, DFWatch – Auditorium 115, students’ movement at the Tbilisi State University resumed rallying against students’ union tvitmmartveloba demanding its abolishment on Wednesday, a day after one of its members was beaten allegedly by the Union members. Auditorium 115 organized protest in the front of TSU main building and soon moved towards students’ union … Read more

UNM may boycott parliament sittings until Oct. 8 elections

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Before declaring their boycott,Earlier, during the plenary session several MPs from both sides participated in the verbal squabble UNM squabble preceded
The boycott declared by the UNM  was preceded by a squabble during the plenary session.

Tbilisi, DFWatch – United National Movement has announced its decision to suspend its activities in the parliament until all involved in violent incident in Kortskheli were punished.

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New confrontation of TSU students amidst accusation of violence

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Protests in TSU, March, 2016 (DFWatch)

Tbilisi, DFWatch – The student movement Auditorium 115, which was set up in the beginning of March during the sit-in protests at the Tbilisi State University (TSU), informed on Tuesday evening that members of the student union tvitmmartveloba­ attacked one of its members. However, tvitmmartveloba claims it was a provocation.

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Saakashvili announces his return to Georgia before the elections

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Mikheil Saakashvili accuses Mr Ivanishvili of causing the death of Kakha Bendukidze by threatening to incarcerate him in a 4 m² cell

Tbilisi, DFWatch – The former president of Georgia and the current governor of Ukraine’s Odessa region, Mikheil Saakashvili declared in an interview for Rustavi 2 that he’d return to Georgia and engage in the campaign before the parliamentary elections in October.

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Ivanishvili: UNM devastated science, new government tries to restore its dignity

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Bidzina Ivanishvili, his wife Ekaterine Khvedelidze, and PM Giorgi Kvirikashvili at the founding ceremony. (facebook)

Tbilisi, DFWatch – A foundation was laid on Monday to the construction of a technologic institute, which the government vows, will be ‘the fifth largest in the world after the same kind of facilities in Italy, Switzerland, Japan, and Austria’.

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Anniversary of Circassian Genocide commemorated in Georgia

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A conference held in Tbilisi (DFWatch)

Tbilisi, DFWatch – A group of Georgian and Circassian activists commemorated the symbolic anniversary of the ethnic cleansing of Circassians by the Russian Empire in the 19th century, marked internationally on 21 May. The activists from the Circassian Cultural Centre in Tbilisi visited the monument dedicated to the victims of the Circassian Genocide in the village of Anaklia, right at the border with Abkhazia, where they laid wreaths.

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Georgia to seek international criminal prosecution for suspect in Khurcha incident

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Prosecutor's Office of Georgia in Ortachala, Tbilisi
The Prosecutor’s Office in Ortachala, Tbilisi. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–In a statement released on Saturday, Prosecutor’s Office of Georgia laid out its version of the tragic event of May 19, and announced it would appeal to the court demanding detention in absentia of Rashid Kanciogli, identified as a person who allegedly

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