Giorgi Sharvashidze, the former rector and academic head of Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, was appointed as the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Georgia to the Republic of Armenia.
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From July 2016 for four years, Giorgi Saganelidze was the ambassador of Georgia to Armenia. In 2021-22, Irakli Kvanchakhadze performed the duties of ambassador.
Prime Minister Irakli Gharibashvili wished success to the newly appointed ambassador and hoped for active cooperation between Georgia and Armenia in various fields in the future.
Giorgi Sharvashidze resigned from the post of the rector on October 7, 2022, saying that his future work was related to international relations. He was elected as TSU rector two times: first in 2016, and the second time in August 2020. His term of office should have expired in 2024. Giorgi Sharvashidze’s resignation was one of the main demands of students who started protests in April 2022. They also demanded to change the way of electing the rector, conduct an audit of the university's budget, and build a dormitory.
Giorgi Sharvashidze was accused of plagiarism in his dissertation by Iago Kachkachishvili, the head of the Tbilisi State University sociology department. Sharvashidze defended his dissertation at Sulkhan-Saba University in 2003. The legal heir of this university, Ilia State University, confirmed the fact of plagiarism. Sharvashidze denied plagiarism.
At the end of 2022, Tbilisi State University Academic Council elected Jaba Samushia, a former member of the Tbilisi City Council from the ruling Georgian Dream party as the new rector for a four-year term. In this election, he had no competitor.
