Tea Topuria 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.
Journalists covering large anti-government protests in Georgia say they have been deliberately targeted by security forces, with many reporting that they were beaten and required hospitalization.
Georgia has been flooded with Russians fleeing Vladimir Putin's partial military mobilization. Those trying to get into the Caucasus country have turned to social media for advice and to share their frustrations. Many Georgians, however, have little sympathy for them.
Zurab Chichoshvili's deadly leap from the rooftop of a dilapidated center for displaced persons in Georgia was quickly deemed "an accident" by the health minister, further angering a community protesting its treatment since being uprooted by separatist violence nearly three decades ago.
The economic crisis in Greece is sending painful shock waves through Georgia. The flow of as much as $20 million a month in remittances from the tens of thousands of Georgians working in Greece has fallen off sharply, and many of them are being forced to return home.
