Airbnb has released a statement confirming that it will remove all listings from Abkhazia and South Ossetia, in Georgia. Airbnb allows customers to rent accommodation in 191 countries and more than 81,000 cities. However, the company has recently...
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‘The universe has been generous’, I thought as I arrived at a bus stop on Pushkin Street in Tbilisi and saw an empty marshrutka about to leave with just one person...
A gas explosion in Tbilisi, Georgia, has left eight injured and four dead. Local news outlets reported that the explosion occured on the sixth floor of a block of...
Social network Facebook has removed hundreds of pages it said posed as independent news sites in emerging Europe and elsewhere but were actually run by employees at the...
In a bid to boost connectivity and economic growth in the Eastern Partnership (EaP) countries, the European Commission and the World Bank have co-authored a Trans...
A selection of articles about emerging Europe published elsewhere this week, all of which are well worth your time. The notion of an east-west split in the EU is...
None of emerging Europe’s 23 countries currently qualifies as a full democracy. The news comes from the latest edition of the Democracy Index, an annual report...
Being retired in emerging Europe is not always easy. Pensions can often be low, and employment opportunities – even part-time – for those over a certain age can be few...
Georgia’s National Statistics Office (GeoStat) has revealed that economic growth for the first 11 months of 2018 was 4.7 per cent, with inflation increasing to 1.5 per...
New year, new rules in Georgia, where several key new laws came into force on New Year’s Day. Among them are an accumulative pension system, a new law for...
Albania moved ever closer to the EU. A huge step forward was taken in April when the European Commission recommended starting accession talks with both Albania and...
The government of the Adjara Autonomous Republic (AR) in Georgia has agreed to contribute 230,000 euros to boost the implementation of regional components of the 10...
