Eka Kevanishvili is a correspondent in Tbilisi for RFE/RL's Georgian Service.
An electoral college is expected to choose Mikheil Kavelashvili, a 53-year-old former footballer and right-wing populist, as Georgia's next president. But with the country rocked by anti-government protests, the incumbent Salome Zurabishvili has said she isn't going anywhere.
Protesters in Georgia have provided harrowing accounts to RFE/RL's Georgian Service of being brutally beaten by police during demonstrations against the government's decision to halt EU membership negotiations.
It has been a year since a disaster struck Shovi, a picturesque resort town located in the Greater Caucasus Mountains, claiming the lives of 33 people on August 3, 2023. The once vibrant resort is now covered in massive stones and gravel, and the search for one missing minor has been abandoned.
A settlement -- containing ornamental homes from the 19th and early 20th centuries featuring ornamental wood carvings and unique decorations -- is decaying from neglect as they await restoration by the Georgian government.
The 2021 Nobel Peace Prize winner says sometimes you're simply forced to "fight a government." She also talks about her golden rule of journalism and the current "foreign agent" challenge facing Georgians.
After Georgian lawmakers passed a "foreign agent" bill, protests against it are continuing, even beyond the capital. A team of mountaineers made a trek to a high peak in the Caucasus to fly the flags of Georgia and the EU in a show of support for the protests and the country's European aspirations.
Activist Kristo Talakhadze was forcibly detained by Georgian security forces during a protest against the so-called foreign agent law in Tbilisi. At a later demonstration, Talakhadze confronted the man to ask him why he had attacked her peaceful protest.
Mariam Pirashvili is a unique figure in Tbilisi who moves among demonstrators opposed to Georgia's "foreign agent" bill, which critics say could curtail civil liberties. She passes around a garbage bag, collecting litter. Pirashvili says the rallies are about protesting and "tidying up our country."
In front of the parliament building in Tbilisi, a dedicated group of volunteers stands with the protesters. They march with trumpets and slogans, demanding "no Russian law, but Europe." Amid the demonstrations, they bring essential supplies: food, water, sweets, protective equipment, and raincoats.
Instead of a club for teenagers interested in learning about classic liberal ideas, some in the Georgian government see something more sinister lurking behind the Franklin Club, labeling its members as "satanists" who helped foment the recent protests that rocked the capital, Tbilisi.
RFE/RL spoke to younger Georgians -- the so-called "Generation Z" -- who joined protests against a controversial new law that would have forced entities with over 20 percent of overseas funding to register as "foreign agents."
Georgia once supplied 95 percent of all the tea in the Soviet Union and was among the top five tea-producing regions in the world. But when the U.S.S.R. collapsed, so did Georgia's tea industry. Now, it's now making a comeback.
In an interview with RFE/RL ahead of a concert in Tbilisi, Ukrainian rock star and activist Svyatoslav Vakarchuk spoke about Russia's invasion of his country and its impact on the artist's work and daily life.
Twenty-six days after former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili launched his hunger strike, authorities in his Black Sea homeland are flummoxed and bickering over what to do with a stubbornly popular ex-president who has vowed he is "ready to die" for his cause.
Georgia’s Orthodox Church has been rocked by scandal, intrigue, murder plots -- and worst of all for the conservative church, accusations of homosexuality. According to at least one observer, it may never recover.
One of the tens of thousands of people uprooted by the lightning war a decade ago between Russia and Georgia over two breakaway republics, doctor Nunu Chovelidze still can't get any closer to home than the hospital named after her old village.
Georgia’s Interior Ministry says it has launched an investigation into the beating of African men who were playing soccer in the capital, Tbilisi.
Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili leaves office on November 17. But does that mean his United National Movement is finished?
Georgia's wrestling federation was hit by an ugly scandal this week when two of its members publicly accused the federation's president of beating them up. The alleged violence has caused dismay and shone a spotlight on what many denounce as bitter political infighting in Georgian sports.
For Betkil Shukvani, leaving the London Olympics without a medal was disappointment enough, especially when Georgian officials failed to defend his complaint about an unfair ruling in his final judo match. Then he threatened by officials who resented his open allegiance to opposition leader Bidzina Ivanishvili.
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