Sunday, December 14, 2025

New US-trained judge candidates taking exams in Georgia

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The High Council of Justice is the highest authority in Georgia’s legal system, not the Supreme Court.

TBILISI, DFWatch–A new cohort of judge candidates are taking qualification exams September 20 and 27, under the auspices of the High Council of Justice.

The exams are held at the Technical University’s first building and for the first time conducted electronically.

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Groups sound final alarm for threatened landscape in Georgia

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Locals in Svaneti blocked a road earlier this year in protest against the plans. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Opponents of the Khudoni hydropower project met in Mestia on Thursday to sound the final alarm before a massive dam floods parts of the unique Svaneti region, threatening an age-old cultural landscape.

The Svaneti region is a rare landscape

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Georgian president denies that he plans to split from coalition

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President Giorgi Margvelashvili during the swearing-in ceremony in November 2013. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia’s president has rejected suggestions that he is planning to set up his own political party, despite an apparent widening split between him and the government coalition.

Speculations of a possible new opposition party seeing the light of day

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Council member in Adjara accuses local official of corruption

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Medea Vasadze, member of the Adjara regional council. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–There was further infighting in Georgia’s government coalition  on Thursday as a member of the council in the Adjara region accused a local finance official of corruption.

The accusation was put forth as the official, Davit Baladze, September 18 briefed

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Students at TSU protest against 'low level of education'

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Art students protested two weeks ago. (Imedi.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Students protested on Tuesday against the level of education at Tbilisi State University.

Some of the students left the hall whistling after meeting the rector and the administration of the department for social and political studies.

They say that every time such

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Split widened between Georgia's president and government

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President of Georgia Giorgi Margvelashvili. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–The conflict between the Georgian president and the government soured even more on Wednesday after the TV company Rustavi 2 exposed private correspondence between the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the president’s administration.

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German tourist hospitalized after roadside robbery in Georgia

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Mestia is one of the most important tourist destinations in Georgia. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–A group of German tourists were robbed in Mestia Monday night, several Georgian news outlets reported.

The reports differ on important details, but most say three German tourists were robbed along the road from Zugdidi to Mestia, one of

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