Nastasia Arabuli is a correspondent for RFE/RL's Georgian Service.
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.
Five women in Georgia have alleged that they were sexually abused by a metropolitan in the Georgian Orthodox Church, raising troubling questions about the impunity enjoyed by high-ranking clerics.
Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili attended a December 9 march in support of the country's European Union membership bid. EU leaders are expected to say on December 15 whether they see Georgia as ready to start accession talks.
There are roughly 8,000 cultural heritage monuments in Georgia, with 1,000 holding the status of national monuments. Among them is the 10th-century Korogho tower, which once graced a hill and was decreed a national monument by the president. Today, it lies in ruins, awaiting rehabilitation.
With Georgians wary of Russia and its occupying troops and tens of thousands of disaffected Russians newly arrived since Moscow's invasion of Ukraine, Shalva Breus's plans for a $26 million art gallery in Tbilisi hinge on a separation of politics and art.
On July 22, 23-year-old Tamar Bachaliashvili was found dead in her car in a remote, rural area of southern Georgia, the victim of an apparent suicide. Her family disputes that version of events and have said her death is so troubling it warrants the involvement of the FBI.
A pair of musicians are urging Azerbaijan to recall a diplomat after they say he attacked them in a restaurant in Georgia after confusing a Russian hit for a song from rival Armenia.
An offbeat Georgian lawmaker has lured fellow deputies into an e-mail trap to make a point about a law punishing people for viewing what's in their inbox.
