Eka Kevanishvili is a correspondent in Tbilisi for RFE/RL's Georgian Service.
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.
For two weeks, a government-appointed temporary administrator was placed in charge of Cartu Bank, a key part of the business empire of opposition political figure Bidzina Ivanishvili. Now bank managers are back in their offices and they are not pleased with what happened while they were gone.
Teachers in Gali, the one district in breakaway Abkhazia where at least 40,000 ethnic Georgians are living, say they are coming under pressure from local officials to drop all Georgian language instruction and give up their standard textbooks.
