Imprisoned twice on spurious charges by the Soviet authorities, Sergey Parajanov – claimed by both Armenia and Georgia – nevertheless managed to create one of the most remarkable films ever to emerge from the Soviet Union. I am the man...
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News last week that the Serbian capital Belgrade might be about to end its century-long wait for a metro line got us thinking about some of the many other underground...
Croatia and North Macedonia, as well as Czechia, Lithuania and Poland, are amongst the few countries in Europe to have legalised the use of marijuana for medical...
Central Europe The US Air Force has set up a base in Romania to locate a squadron of MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aerial vehicles to conduct intelligence and reconnaissance...
One of the world’s most renowned classical pianists and a UNESCO artist for peace, Elisso Bolkvadze is preparing for a new role, as an MP with a vision for the role of...
A generation of talented designers is making Tbilisi an essential creative hub. The Covid-19 pandemic has spelt disaster for much of the fashion industry. Small brands...
Georgia’s ruling party, Georgian Dream, has won a comfortable majority in a parliamentary election but the country’s opposition has cried foul, alleging that...
Public-private collaboration and a more sophisticated tech ecosystem is finally making Georgia’s start-ups attractive to foreign investors. Georgia has always been...
Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov paid his first official visit to Georgia last week. During a meeting with his Georgian counterpart David Zalkaliani, both...
Georgia has come a long way since the fall of Eduard Shevardnadze in 2003 and the chaos caused by a war with Russia in 2008, pursuing ever-closer economic, social and...
Budapest has been named as the most business-friendly city in emerging Europe as part of the 2020 Emerging Europe Awards. Emerging Europe invited 70 global location...
Few architectural styles are as contentious as brutalism. There are people who will say that baroque Catholic churches have just too much going on, or that the Chrysler...
