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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.
A controversial icon of St. Matrona of Moscow with an image of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin has been removed from the Holy Trinity Cathedral in the Georgian capital, Tbilisi, following a public outcry and an attempt to deface the work.
Amid an ongoing controversy over the image of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin on an icon in Tbilisi's Holy Trinity Cathedral, the Georgian Patriarchate said on January 11 that the donors of the icon must change the part portraying Stalin.
When a religious icon with a panel depicting Soviet dictator Josef Stalin was unveiled in a Tbilisi cathedral, many Georgians took offense. One of them, Nata Peradze, threw blue paint on the painting and posted video of her protest on social media. Soon after, an angry crowd surrounded her house.
An angry mob swarmed the house of activist Nata Peradze on January 10, a day after she posted a video online showing a defaced icon of St. Matrona of Moscow in Tbilisi's Holy Trinity Cathedral, which had recently sparked controversy because it carries an image of the Soviet dictator Josef Stalin.
A detail of a religious icon featuring Soviet dictator Josef Stalin has reignited debate over attempts to link the atheist dictator to Georgia's Orthodox Christian faith.
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