RFE/RL's Echo of the Caucasus broadcasts in Russian to Georgia.
Billionaire Ruben Vardanian, a former Russian citizen of Armenian descent, has been removed from the post of prime minister in the de facto government of the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh less than four months after he was appointed.
Outspoken Kremlin critic, journalist, and writer Oleg Panfilov has died at the age of 65 in Tbilisi, Panfilov's wife, Oksana Maslak, wrote on Facebook on February 10.
More than $2 billion was transferred from Russia to Georgia last year as Moscow's invasion of Ukraine in February prompted some 112,000 Russians to relocate to the Caucasus country, giving an unexpected boost to its economy.
Aleksandr Shekeladze, chief of the police department's Main Directorate of Detectives in the Georgian capital, Tbilisi, has been shot dead by a police officer, local authorities said on January 9.
Demonstrators in several European Union capitals and other nations around the world have held rallies in front of Georgian diplomatic missions to demand the immediate release of former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili from prison due to the deteriorating state of his health.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has urged Georgian authorities "to be merciful" and transfer jailed former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, who is a Ukrainian citizen, to a medical facility abroad given the deteriorating state of his health.
Ukraine is demanding that Georgia grant it access to imprisoned former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, who holds Ukrainian citizenship and whose health is said to be deteriorating.
A court in Moscow has stripped an activist of his Russian citizenship after he protested against the war in Ukraine.
Anatoly Bibilov, the de facto incumbent leader of Georgia's breakaway region of South Ossetia, was defeated by the leader of the Nykhas party, Alan Gagloyev, in a May 8 presidential runoff election.
Georgian authorities have extradited to the United States two men wanted by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) for money laundering.
A runoff in the de facto presidential election in Georgia's breakaway region of South Ossetia, which Tbilisi and the West do not recognize, has been set for April 28.
None of five presidential candidates in a vote in Georgia’s South Ossetia cleared the 50 percent mark in an election to lead the breakaway region that Tbilisi and the West do not recognize.
Former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili says he held a series of "secret" meetings with authoritarian Belarusian ruler Alyaksandr Lukashenka in London to help persuade him not to follow Russia in recognizing the breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
A Chechen rights lawyer, who along with his family members has been threatened to be killed by Chechen leaders, has left Georgia fearing for his safety in the Caucasus country.
A Georgian condom company that uses creative advertising on its packaging has won a freedom of expression case at the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).
Elections for the legislative body in the breakaway Georgian region of South Ossetia were held on June 9.
Thousands of people have protested in the Georgian capital against the election of the ruling party-backed candidate Salome Zurabishvili to the presidency, claiming fraud in last week’s runoff vote.
Thousands of people have gathered in the Chechen village of Geldagen for the burial of Yusup Temerkhanov, a native of the village who died on August 3 in a Russian prison while serving a 15-year sentence for the 2011 murder of notorious Russian Colonel Yury Budanov.
A rights watchdog says Iraqi troops and Shi'ite militias looted and burned homes and destroyed villages after breaking Islamic State militants' months-long siege of a mainly ethnic Turkmen town in northwestern Iraq in September.
An Islamic insurgency leader in Russia's North Caucasus Republic of Kabardino-Balkaria has reportedly claimed responsibility for six killings in the southern Stavropol Krai region last month.
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