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Georgia’s ruling Georgian Dream party will hold a wide majority in parliament after sweeping second-round elections on November 21 that were boycotted by the opposition, preliminary results showed.
Georgian officials say they have arrested an unidentified gunman who was holding nine people hostage at a microfinance lending institution in the capital, Tbilisi.
An opposition rally in Georgia's capital, Tbilisi, on November 18 was the latest in a series of protests against the official results of the October 31 parliamentary elections in which the country's ruling Georgian Dream party claimed victory.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has met with top Georgian officials to discuss the prospects of deepening defense and security cooperation in a region where Russia has been attempting to deepen its ties.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is scheduled to arrive in Georgia on November 17 ahead of talks with leaders of the South Caucasus country on the prospect of further deepening cooperation in the areas of defense and security.
Thousands of opposition demonstrators have taken to the streets of the Georgian capital Tbilisi on November 14 calling for recent parliamentary elections -- it claims have been rigged -- to be rerun and vowing to boycott the newly elected parliament. (RFE/RL's Georgian Service)
Thousands of opposition demonstrators have taken to the streets of the Georgian capital to demand repeat parliamentary elections.
Leaders of Georgian opposition parties have announced fresh rallies protesting the results of recent parliamentary elections, despite efforts by the United States and European Union to facilitate talks between opposition parties and the ruling Georgian Dream party.
Tsophi is one of several villages in the Marneuli region of Georgia where ethnic Armenians and Azeris -- all citizens of Georgia -- live and work together.
Protesters scuffled with police in the Georgian capital, Tbilisi, as opposition supporters continued demonstrations and called for new parliamentary elections. Some protesters were detained by police, but the November 9 rally was mostly peaceful.
Police in the Georgian capital, Tbilisi, used water cannons to disperse a protest outside the country's Central Election Commission on the night of November 8-9. Demonstrations have been ongoing since the October 31 parliamentary elections, which the opposition says were rigged.
A protest demanding the resignation of Georgia’s Central Election Commission (CEC) and new parliamentary elections came to an end in Tbilisi after police used water cannons several times to disperse the crowd.
Thousands of protesters gathered in the Georgian capital, Tbilisi, to demand fresh parliamentary elections and the resignation of the head of the country's Central Election Commission. Opposition parties claim the commission falsified the results of parliamentary elections on October 31.
Police have used water cannons outside Georgia's Central Election Commission office to disperse protesters who were demanding the resignation of the commission head and new parliamentary elections.
One of Georgia's opposition parties, European Georgia, has called weekend parliamentary elections unfair and says it will boycott runoff balloting to protest official results that handed the ruling Georgian Dream party its third consecutive electoral victory.
Voters test electoral reforms intended to provide a broader range of political representation in the legislature. On October 31, citizens are deciding whether a ruling party will run the government on its own for an unprecedented third consecutive time. (RFE/RL's Georgian Service)
Georgian Deputy Interior Minister Vladimer Bortsvadze has officially identified a man suspected in an attempted bank robbery that turned into a hostage-taking incident before he made off with the ransom money.
A manhunt continues in Georgia, one day after an armed robber took hostages at a bank in the western city of Zugdidi and escaped with an unspecified amount of cash.
Georgia's Davit Gareja monastery complex lies along the border with Azerbaijan, which the two countries have been trying to demarcate since independence. Now, two ex-members of the demarcation commission have been arrested amid claims the ruling Georgian Dream engineered it ahead of the elections.
The First Public School in the central Georgian town of Khashuri has set up an outdoor classroom to help deal with the COVID-19 pandemic. Classes take turns learning outside, allowing cleaners to disinfect their indoor classrooms throughout the school day.
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