Nadia Beard is a journalist and pianist living in Tbilisi, Georgia. She is the South Caucasus correspondent for RFE/RL and contributes to the Financial Times, National Geographic, The Guardian, and The Times Literary Supplement.
Politician, entrepreneur, philanthropist, billionaire, Ruben Vardanian has worn many hats in his life. His most recent, that of prime minister in the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh, will likely count as one of the most short-lived. However, for Vardanian, it might just be the beginning.
An anti-Western party in Georgia has proposed a controversial “foreign agent” bill that appears similar to an infamous legislation introduced in Russia in 2012. Activists and others have slammed the bill as an act of sabotage to Georgia’s EU candidacy aspirations and an attack on freedom of speech.
When Ukrainian refugees fleeing the war came to Georgia, they thought it might be for a few weeks -- or perhaps months. But with the war still raging one year on, Ukrainians in Georgia have worked hard to build up their community, helping themselves and the continuing flow of new arrivals.
A rare voice in a sea of conservatism, comedian Nata Talikishvili is becoming an emblem for how the stories of Georgia's trans community can be told in public and -- so far -- without backlash.
Financier and political activist Bill Browder says that jailed former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili is showing "signs of torture."
The actions of the ruling Georgian Dream party since Russia's February invasion of Ukraine have worried many in Georgia, especially those hopeful about the country's European future.
Currently serving a six-year prison term for abuse of power, former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili is appealing for his sentence to be suspended due to poor health. As international support for his case grows, the dispute in Georgia over whether he's really ill has become even uglier.
The Dukhobors, an Orthodox-Protestant sect originating in Russia, have been living in Javakheti, Georgia, since they were exiled in the 1840s. An egalitarian spiritual community, the Dukhobors stand apart from other religious sects with their beliefs in pacifism and gender equality.
As the only woman who does the transhumance -- the yearly seasonal migration of livestock from the highlands of Tusheti to the winter pastures of Vashlovani in eastern Georgia -- Tinatin Ididze cuts an unconventional character in Tusheti's male-dominated mountain culture.
Unlike the Russians who had entered Georgia in the weeks immediately following the invasion of Ukraine in February, a new crop of Russians, many dodging the recent military draft, are arriving through a border in the Caucasus Mountains.
Armenia and Azerbaijan recently traded fire across their shared border, with Azerbaijani shells hitting cities in southern Armenia. For many Armenians, that incursion has been a worrying wake-up call, with the country's political elite no longer certain the country can rely on Russia for support.
An Iran Air Cargo plane, thought to be carrying Iranian drones to Moscow, recently flew over Georgian airspace. With the Iranian company under U.S. sanctions, the case has raised questions about so-called sanctions "black holes."
Georgia's government targets the country's museums, in what many fear could be the start of a much broader attack on the cultural scene.
At the age of 76, Elene Chantladze is just beginning her career as an internationally celebrated painter. After many years spent in a loveless marriage in rural Georgia, Chantladze has finally found freedom in her art.
A hotel in Georgia's eastern region of Kakheti has become a home away from home for Ukrainian refugees scarred from the trauma of war.
