From the next academic year, all public schools in Georgia will reintroduce mandatory school uniforms for students in grades one through six on a trial basis, Education Minister Givi Mikanadze announced during the presentation of the General Educatio...
The National Environment Agency on Tuesday said atmospheric dust concentrations across Georgia are showing a declining trend. The agency reported that “as of today, a decrease in solid particulate matter in the air has been observed, driven by recen...
The increase in airborne dust particles in Georgia has been driven by the spread of desert dust masses across the country, the National Environmental Agency reported on Sunday. Marina Arabidze, head of the Agency's Environmental Pollution Monitoring...
Tbilisi has begun installing its New Year and Christmas illuminations, with the official switch-on scheduled for 12 December, the city’s mayor, Kakha Kaladze, has announced. Speaking at a municipal government meeting, Kaladze said preparations for t...
Chiatura miners are holding a protest outside the Ministry of Health, demanding the release of colleagues they say were unlawfully detained. “Four of our colleagues have been unjustly imprisoned for seven months. During this time, no explanation has...
Chiatura miners are taking their protest to Tbilisi and will gather today at 1:00 PM in front of the Ministry of Health. According to the organizers, the situation in the city had reached a “humanitarian crisis.” One of the protesters called on the ...
Media manager Mzia Amaghlobeli on Tuesday said she fears not imprisonment, but the state of the country she may find upon release, speaking during a hearing at the Kutaisi Court of Appeals. Amaghlobeli, the co-founder and director of the media outle...
Bishop Saba Intskirveli in the Georgian Orthodox Church in North America has criticised the government’s plan to discontinue overseas polling stations, saying it had created a “heavy and painful reality” for thousands of Georgian emigrants. The cler...
Chechen national Alia Ozdamirova, who fled Chechnya due to threats, was reportedly forcibly or deceptively taken from Georgia on November 9 and died under unclear circumstances shortly after her return to Chechnya, according to media reports. The 33...
The bodies of the soldiers who died in the Turkish military cargo plane crash will be repatriated to Turkey today. The Turkish Ministry of Defence said a specialised team was investigating the cause of the crash and efforts were ongoing to determine...
