Sunday, February 15, 2026

Discussion: Youth unemployment in Georgia – causes and solutions

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From left to right: Mariam Gogosashvili, student at GIPA, Temo Kakhidze, student at University of Patriarchate and Elene Beriashvili, student at Tbilisi State University. (Click to watch video.) (DF Watch.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–On September 6, DF Watch organized a discussion about the difficulties youth are having finding employment.

We invited students from three different universities to share their views on youth unemployment.

They agree that there are problems,

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Art students in Tbilisi protesting against new government decree

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Students at the Academy of Art in Tbilisi are opposed to new rules for electing a rector. (Imedi TV.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Students demonstrated Friday outside the Culture Ministry against a decision to only allow professors at accredited universities to become rector of the Academy of Art.

The decree was signed by Culture Minister Mikheil Giorgadze on September 1.

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KaZantip festival in Georgia a failure, may be cancelled

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KaZantip visitors are making the most of it, but some are disappointed. (DF Watch.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–The long-awaited music festival KaZantip turned out a disappointment for some visitors and the head organizer.

The electronic music festival, which has been held for the last decade in Crimea, was moved to Georgia’s Black Sea coast after Russia’s

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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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