Saturday, December 6, 2025

26,000 passed university entrance exams in Georgia

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Maia Miminoshvili, head of the National Exam Center. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–More than 26,000 candidates have been accepted as students this year, according to the head of Georgia’s National Exam Center.

Maia Miminoshvili told journalists that about 35,500 entrants took their test exams this year, but 9,000 failed to pass.

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KaZantip opens as conservatives protest

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Conservatives protested outside the old parliament building in Tbilisi. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Conservative groups continued protesting against KaZantip Wednesday as the music festival opened at 9 pm in the evening.

Those opposed to the festival are radical Orthodox Christians and small opposition parties.

On Wednesday one such group held a protest

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KaZantip organizer to priests: 'We have a no drugs policy'

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KaZantip is planned held in Anaklia, a beach resort in Georgia near the border with Abkhazia. (Palitra.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–The manager of KaZantip has offered to meet priests and conservative activists to discuss the music festival, claiming that they are misinformed.

Orthodox activists demonstrated near the festival site Thursday using biblical slogans warning

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Waiting for new school building in Lambalo

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Only the foundation of the new school has been built so far. (DF Watch.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–For seven years, children in the small predominantly Azeri village Lambalo in Georgia have had to attend school classes in old barns.

In 2006, a group of experts announced that the old school in Lambalo had been sold and it was closed. The school

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Traditionalists are against holding music festival KaZantip in Georgia

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National Front and People’s Assembly are against holding a festival like KaZantip in a country with ancient traditions. (DF Watch.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–A group of religious radicals protested in Tbilisi on Saturday against the music festival KaZantip, which is planned in the end of August in Anaklia, a sea resort in western Georgia.

The same day, locals in Anaklia demonstrated in support of the

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Georgian Church wants music festival called off

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KaZantip will be organized in Anaklia from August 20 to August 30.

TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia’s Orthodox Church is against holding the electronic music festival KaZantip in Georgia, claiming that it will ‘harm’ Georgians.

The ten-day music festival used to be held in Crimea, but due to the Russian annexation it will this year be held in Anaklia, on the Black

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Georgian team won medals at young scientist competition

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The Georgian team won one gold and two bronze medals. (Photo published by the Education Ministry.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–A team of Georgian school pupils won one gold and two bronze medals at the 26th International Olympiad in Informatics, which was held in Taiwan July 13-20.

The Georgian team consisted of four pupils and two of their leaders. This year, more than 80

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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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