Monday, February 16, 2026

Agricultural University's fate to be decided on Tuesday

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Students staged a mock lecture in the street in front of the Education Ministry. (Tabula TV.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–The Education Quality Development Center will March 26 at 18:00 decide whether to reinstate the Agricultural University’s accreditation.

The center on Wednesday informed that five issues will be on the agenda of Tuesday’s session, including the issue

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After mass amnesty, some ex-prisoners go back to jail

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Prisoners released in the 2013 amnesty. (Photo is unrelated to the story in the article.) (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Tengiz, a man now in his early sixties, was sentenced to 11 years in jail for burglary in 2007. December 7, 2012, he was pardoned by the president because of a difficult health condition after being recommended by Prison Minister Sozar Subari.

Two

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Student protest at Agriculture University

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Education Minister Giorgi Margvelashvili met the students Tuesday. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–For the last two days, students at an agricultural college have been at the center of a dispute between the governing Georgian Dream coalition and supporters of President Mikheil Saakashvili.

The dispute began with the

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Online shopping is catching on in Georgia

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Empty cardboard boxes testify to how eagerly the parcels have been awaited. (DF Watch photo.)

TBILISI, DFWatch — There is a small crowd gathered in the hall giving electronic signatures together with ID cards to get the parcel. ‘Parcel from America’, the tagline of the company says.

There are several companies in Tbilisi like this one that offer to ship items

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A third of minibus drivers in Tbilisi on strike

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600 drivers of minibuses (“marshrutkas”) in Tbilisi are on strike against a new license system. (DF Watch photo.)

TBILISI, DFWatch — About 600 minibus drivers went on strike in Tbilisi Friday, causing crowding on buses and in the metro.

The strike has the support of about 30 % of all minibus drivers in the capital. They are protesting against a new license system which has left

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Georgian morning show anchors criticized Elton John

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Davit Katsarava and Salome Gogiashvili, hosts of Imedi TV’s morning show. (Screen grab.)

TBILISI, DFWatch — Two well-known Georgian TV anchors are accused of having used a homophobic slur.

January 18, one of the anchors of a morning talk show on Imedi TV said: ‘I’m honestly sorry for both surrogate children of Elton John’. The other one

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