Sunday, December 14, 2025

Georgian PM names all but one of new ministers

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Prime Minister Irakli Gharibashvili (center) presented almost all the new ministers on Tuesday. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Gharibashvili on Tuesday named another four out of seven candidates to fill the empty ministers seats left in a major government reshuffle.

The first two replacements – for refugee minister and environment minister

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Bus drivers in Georgia protest against rough work conditions

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Bus drivers protested in Tbilisi and many other places Tuesday, after one of their colleagues died. (Maestro TV.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Bus drivers demonstrated in many Georgian towns on Tuesday, as a response to one of their colleagues who died on the job in Tbilisi following a fight with a passenger.

At 14:00, drivers stopped their bus or minibus and let the vehicle’s horn cry

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Georgian parliament speaker visiting Israel

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Speaker of Parliament Davit Usupashvili. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–The Georgian speaker of parliament is Tuesday visiting Israel.

Davit Usupashvili will meet with Yuli-Yoel Edelstein, Speaker of the Knesset, as well as with the head of the Israel-Georgia Parliamentary Friendship Group, Avraham Michaeli.

Usupashvili

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Ombudsman asks for effective investigation of Armenian church attack

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Ombudsman Ucha Nanuashvili. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–The Georgian ombudsman addresses law enforcement bodies to properly and effectively investigate the attack on priests at an Armenian church on July 19.

On Saturday, about 50 people attacked Surb Etchmiadzin Church in Tbilisi. The Armenian Diocese

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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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Georgian students: the generation of 'three nos'

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Beka Dadeshkeliani (left), head of the student union for social and political studies, and Beka Bekauri, head of the natural sciences students union. (Click to watch video.) (DF Watch.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–DF Watch on July 18 organized a discussion about the situation of students today.

What problems are students facing? How can they be let to realize their skills and knowledge? In what way can the government or educational institutions help them,

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Seven ministers replaced in Georgian government reshuffle

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Prime Minister of Georgia Irakli Gharibashvili. (Interpressnews)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Prime Minister Irakli Gharibashvili on Monday fired seven ministers: the ministers for agriculture, prisons, refugees, environment, infrastructure, culture and diaspora.

Explaining his decision at a morning briefing, he said that for the last two

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Priests attacked at Armenian church in Tbilisi

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The incident took place inside the Surb Etchmiadzin Church in Tbilisi. (Photo published by the Armenian Diocese.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–About 50 people physically attacked priests at an Armenian Church in Tbilisi on Saturday.

The Armenian Orthodox Church says the attack was motivated by religious and ethnic prejudice, but Georgia’s Ministry of Internal Affairs

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