#Georgia

Mikheil Kavelashvili, a hardline critic of the West, was sworn in as president of Georgia on Sunday amid a political crisis after the government froze European Union application talks in ...

By Konstantine Kvachakidze October 2024 parliamentary elections in Georgia were won by the Georgian Dream, ruling party. The elections were assessed by international observers as held in fair and democratic environment, ...

Georgian lawmakers elected Mikheil Kavelashvili, a hardline critic of the West, as president on Saturday, setting him up to replace a pro-Western incumbent amid major protests against the government over ...

Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze said on Saturday that the state would not allow a revolution to take place, after protests against his government’s sudden freezing this week of ...

The European Union’s ambassador to Georgia said on Friday that Tbilisi’s move to effectively halt its EU accession bid until 2028 was “heartbreaking” and he also condemned police violence ...

Georgia’s ruling party said on Thursday that the country would suspend talks on European Union accession until 2028, while also refusing budgetary grants from Brussels, effectively halting its application to ...

The leader of the Moscow-backed breakaway Georgian region of Abkhazia resigned on Tuesday after a deal allowing for the expansion of Russian business in the republic led to mass protests ...

State prosecutors in Georgia said on Wednesday they had launched an investigation into opposition allegations of possible falsification at a weekend parliamentary election which the ruling Georgian Dream was declared ...

Thousands of people protested outside Georgia’s parliament on Monday after the governing party won an election marred by reports of voting irregularities which Western powers said must be investigated. ...

Georgia’s most powerful man won a parliamentary election on Saturday, according to early official results, a victory which opposition politicians refused to recognise, alleging “falsification”. The ruling Georgian Dream ...

Georgians voted on Saturday in a parliamentary election depicted by both sides as an existential battle that will determine whether the country integrates closely with the West or leans back ...

A large protest was held in Tbilisi on Saturday to demand harsh punishment for a woman accused of defacing a religious icon depicting Josef Stalin which was recently-installed in the ...

Russia has signed a deal for a permanent naval base on the Black Sea coast of the breakaway Georgian region of Abkhazia, itsleader was quoted on Thursday as saying by ...

Nuno Sousa Guedes missed a last-minute penalty as Portugal agonisingly failed to secure a first-ever World Cup victory on Saturday as Georgia scored a 78th-minute try – then missed the conversion – ...

Georgia on Monday accused a former deputy interior minister of plotting from Ukraine to overthrow the Tbilisi government, testing ties with Kyiv as Georgia deepens its relations with Russia. The ...

Four Georgia families sued the state in federal court on Friday to stop a law that bans transgender youth from receiving hormone therapy, joining a wave of challenges to similar ...

Russia said on Friday it was watching events in Georgia “with great concern” and suggested without providing evidence that the United States was stirring up anti-Russian sentiment there. Kremlin spokesman ...

Georgia’s parliament on Friday dropped plans for a “foreign agents” bill that had triggered a major domestic political crisis and threatened to derail the Caucasus nation’s bid for ...

Police in the ex-Soviet state of Georgia used tear gas and stun grenades early on Wednesday to break up a protest outside Parliament against a draft law on “foreign agents”. ...

At least nine people died in tornadoes that destroyed homes and knocked out power to tens of thousands in the US Southeast, local officials said on Friday, and the death ...

Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili visited the mediaeval Georgian Orthodox monastery in Gialia, Paphos, on Wednesday as part of her official trip to Cyprus. Zourabichvili met with President Nicos Anastasiades on ...

Georgia looks forward to Cyprus’ support for its European aspirations and recognises that it can learn from Cyprus, which followed the same path until it joined the bloc, President Salome ...

Georgian president Salome Zourabichvili will meet President Nicos Anastasiades during her official visit to the island on Tuesday to discuss developments in the Cyprus problem and the two countries’ bilateral ...

Police in Georgia sought clues on Thursday to what sparked the fatal shootings of eight people, six of them Asian woman, in a string of Atlanta-area attacks that heightened fear ...