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–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–Students clashed with security guards and police at Tbilisi State University on Thursday while trying to prevent the election of a new chancellor of the university senate.
The assembly of the senate had to be canceled. Students continue
TBILISI, DFWatch–Activists demand transparent funding mechanisms for student government’s projects over allegations of misspending.
On Monday, 7 March, approximately 300 activists gathered in front of the administrative building
TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgian Education Minister Tamar Sanikidze said on Friday that a handful of Iraqi students had their residency permits revoked because they didn’t comply with the legal requirements.
The students, who are attending Akaki Tsereteli
TBILISI, DFWatch–A group of Iraqi students protested in Kutaisi on Monday after having their residency permits revoked.
The protest at Akaki Tsereteli State University involved up to ten Iraqi students, who asked the university to help them after the Ministry of Justice revoked
TBILISI, DFWatch–Possession of up to 70 grams of marijuana is no longer a crime in Georgia, following a ruling in the Constitutional Court.
The Court on Saturday struck down as unconstitutional a passage in the law that made it punishable by from 7 to 14 years
TBILISI, DFWatch–Gem Fest starts Thursday in Anaklia, a beach resort on the Black Sea coast close to the border with Abkhazia.
Georgian Electronic Music Festival will last from July 30 to August 7 and is carried out with the support of the Georgian
TBILISI, DFWatch–Placebo, a British band which recently played at Tbilisi Open Air festival, has donated about USD 40,000 to the victims of the flood on June 13-14.
The website Indiegogo, which raises funds for charity, said it had received USD 39,974 from Placebo
