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Thousands have rallied in the Georgian capital to denounce violence against the LGBTQ community that shocked the nation and drew condemnation from Western embassies in the Caucasus nation.
A rally on July 5 against a planned LGBT Pride march in the Georgian capital, Tbilisi, turned violent as protesters beat activists and journalists, including two RFE/RL reporters. Protesters also scaled the walls of the Tbilisi Pride organization and ransacked its office.
LGBT campaigners in Georgia have canceled a planned Pride march after opponents attacked activists and journalists and the government and church spoke out against the event.
Twenty people were detained as Georgian ultranationalists attempted to disrupt a film screening at the opening of the four-day Tbilisi Pride LGBT rights festival, which aims to combat homophobia and transphobia. Outside the July 1 screening, protesters clashed with law enforcement personnel.
Georgian theater and film luminary Rezo Gabriadze, known across the former Soviet Union as the screenwriter of several blockbuster movies from the 1960s to the '80s, has died in Tbilisi at the age of 84.
The opening of floodgates at a Soviet-era hydroelectric dam north of Tbilisi has lowered the waters of the Mtkvari River, exposing a bridge across an ancient crossing point for archaeologists to study.
Interest in Georgia’s Soviet-era architecture is surging, even as some of the most spectacular landmarks in the capital, Tbilisi, are literally disappearing overnight.
Hundreds of activists blocked the main Rustaveli Avenue in Tbilisi, Georgia, to protest the construction of the Namakhvani hydro plant by a Turkish company. At the May 24 rally, protesters condemned what they described as the negative environmental impact of the project and declared that they will c
Belarusian, Georgian, and Ukrainian activists staged a protest outside the Belarusian embassy in Tbilisi, Georgia, against the arrest of journalist Raman Pratasevich following the alleged hijacking of a Ryanair plane by Belarusian security forces.
The de facto president of Georgia's breakaway region of Abkhazia, Aslan Bzhania, has wrapped up a three-day visit to Syria, his office said on May 19.
TBILISI -- Georgian opposition leader Nika Melia, fresh off his release from prison on bail with the help of the European Union, has said that he plans to speak soon with self-exiled former President Mikheil Saakashvili, who Melia said should be allowed to return to the country.
Ten years after construction began on a striking new parliament building in Kutaisi, the former Georgian seat of power stands all but abandoned.
The Tbilisi City Court ruled to release opposition leader Nikia Melia from pretrial detention after the European Union posted his bail to help end Georgia's protracted political crisis. Melia, who is the leader of the opposition United National Movement (ENM), was released on May 10.
The leader of Georgia's opposition United National Movement (ENM) was freed from prison on May 10 after the European Union posted his bail to help end the country's protracted political crisis.
Wolves, foxes, lynx, porcupines, and badgers all get starring roles on a network of cameras set up by conservationists in Georgia's Chachuna protected area. The project helps monitor the numbers and behavior of wildlife and provides clues about the overall health of the ecosystem.
Popular Georgian actor Kakhi Kavsadze, who was well-known in the former Soviet Union, has died at the age of 85 of complications caused by COVID-19.
Two men have been apprehended in Georgia for attempting to sell a radioactive substance.
An ongoing protest against the construction of the Namakhvani hydropower plant in western Georgia continued on April 14 as demonstrators gathered near the village of Gumati and later decamped to the regional capital, Kutaisi.
Several dozen people spent the night of April 8 outside the parliament building in Tbilisi in honor of the victims of a Soviet massacre 32 years ago. On April 9, 1989, Soviet troops killed 20 protesters who were taking part in a peaceful anti-Soviet demonstration in the Georgian capital.
The jailed leader of Georgia's main opposition force has gone on trial in a case that has deepened a protracted postelection political crisis in the South Caucasus country.
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