Russia appears to have little appetite for raising the stakes in South Ossetia, a breakaway region of Georgia it recognised as independent in 2008 and which this week said is mulling a referendum on becoming part of Russia. Moscow has been quick to...
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Georgia’s government is refusing to transfer Mikheil Saakashvili, a former president now almost 50 days into a hunger strike, to a civilian hospital. The condition...
Georgia’s prime minister resigns, while a court rules that an opposition leader be placed in pre-trial detention. Georgia’s prime minister resigned on...
Fighting erupted in the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh on September 27, with at least 23 people reported killed in the most serious escalation of the 30-year...
For music, as for much else, 2020 has been a bleak year. Festivals – ranging from large to small and everything in between – have been cancelled en masse...
Our weekly digest of articles about emerging Europe published elsewhere this week, all of which caught our eye and all of which are well worth your time. Listing them...
Georgia’s ruling party, Georgian Dream, has reached a long-awaited agreement with the country’s opposition to change the country’s electoral system ahead of...
The resignation of the so-called president of the self-proclaimed Republic of Abkhazia has highlighted increasing divisions within the troubled region, officially part...
Georgia’s president, Salome Zurabishvili, the country’s prime minister Giorgi Gakharia and foreign minister Davit Zalkaliani have all welcomed a bill passed by the US...
Estonia’s president Kersti Kaljulaid has said that the European Union should be open to further integration, making the case for Georgia’s potential accession, the...
Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili has called an election in the Russian-occupied region of Abkhazia “a sham.” “The Abkhaz authorities are de facto...
Georgia’s prime minister, Mamuka Bakhtadze, and the country’s president Salome Zurabishvili have paid tribute to the victims of the Russo-Georgian War of...
