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The European Union's ambassador to Georgia has criticized the reintroduction of a "foreign agents" bill in parliament -- legislation compared with a similar law in Russia that the Kremlin has used to stifle dissent -- saying it's "incompatible" with the values of the bloc Tbilisi is looking to join.
Thousands of Georgians took to the streets of the capital, Tbilisi, on April 9, to protest against a controversial "foreign agents" bill that Georgia's ruling party, Georgian Dream, said it will reintroduce.
Restoration work has begun on a fourth-century fortress from Tbilisi's storied architectural and historic past.
Georgia's ruling party says it will reintroduce a controversial "foreign agent" bill that was pulled last year amid massive protests over fears the legislation, which mirrored a similar law in Russia, would severely restrict dissent and the activity of civil society groups.
The executive secretary of Georgia's ruling Georgian Dream party, Mamuka Mdinaradze, announced on March 25 that the party has initiated a bill on constitutional amendments that would significantly limit LGBT rights in the South Caucasus country.
Thousands of Russians appeared to join an opposition call for protests by gathering at polling stations at midday local time, amid a presidential election engineered to deliver Vladimir Putin six more years in the Kremlin. Long lines of people formed in Moscow, St. Petersburg, and elsewhere.
Mourners outside of Russia, including Russians living abroad, held memorial services for opposition leader Aleksei Navalny on March 1 as his funeral took place in Moscow. People in Armenia, Georgia, and Bulgaria placed signs, flowers, and candles for Navalny, whom some described as a source of hope.
Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze said on February 26 that Georgian citizens can now visit China without visas for a period of up to 30 days.
U.S. Russia expert Michael McFaul said he was "in shock" after hearing about the death of Aleksei Navalny, whom he had considered a friend. The former U.S. ambassador to Russia spoke to RFE/RL in Munich on February 16, shortly after Russian authorities announced that Navalny had been found dead.
An Armenian church that was once one of Tbilisi's most prominent landmarks is slowly falling to bits in full view of the Georgian capital's inhabitants.
A gunman shot four people dead and wounded another at a market in Georgia's southeastern city of Rustavi, the Interior Ministry of the Caucasus country said on February 9.
The former chairman of Georgia's ruling Georgian Dream party has been appointed prime minister in a reshuffle ahead of general elections later this year.
Georgian authorities said on February 8 that the death toll of a massive landslide in the country’s west that occurred earlier this week had risen to nine
Georgian authorities said on February 7 that a massive landslide had killed at least four people overnight in the country's west.
A court in the Georgian capital on February 2 sentenced activist Nata Peradze to five days of detention after she was found guilty of defacing an image of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin on an icon at the Holy Trinity Cathedral in Tbilisi.
Georgian Dream, Georgia's ruling party, nominated its leader Irakli Kobakhidze, as its candidate for prime minister on February 1, just days after Irakli Gharibashvili stepped down to give the party time to prepare for general elections that are to be held in the Caucasus nation by October.
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Gharibashvili has announced his resignation to give his party time to prepare for general elections that are to be held in the Caucasus nation by October.
South Caucasus neighbors Georgia and Armenia signed a “strategic partnership” memorandum during a visit to Tbilisi by Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian on January 26, Georgian Premier Irakli Gharibashvili said.
After an uproar over a depiction of Josef Stalin in Tbilisi's cathedral, interest has spiked in some of the vengeful paintings of Soviet leaders inside churches in Georgia.
Firefighters and artists rushed to save artworks after a fire at the National Gallery of Paintings in Sukhumi, the administrative center of Georgia's breakaway region of Abkhazia, on January 21. Abkhazia has been run by Russian-backed separatists since the early 1990s.
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