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Churchgoers and most clerics wore face masks as they attended an Orthodox Easter Vigil at the Trinity Cathedral in Georgia's capital, Tbilisi. The ceremony was led by the 87-year-old head of the Georgian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Ilia II.
His name is Giorgi Gagoshvili, but he always signs his artwork as Gagosh. The famous Georgian stencil-graffiti artist is trying not to leave his house these days. As Georgians stay home amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Gagosh talks about how he copes with self-isolation.
A court in Georgia has sentenced opposition leader and former Defense Minister Irakli Okruashvili to five years in prison following the outbreak of violence during mass protest last June, raising concerns from the United States over political interference in the judiciary.
Hundreds of tulips have been donated to health workers and COVID-19 patients in Georgia after a social-media drive to save a local harvest. The campaign came after RFE/RL reported on a Georgian tulip farmer known as Uncle Kako, who feared his flowers would wither after the country shut down markets because of the coronavirus pandemic.
The streets of Tbilisi were mostly deserted after the Georgian government introduced a curfew on March 31 in an effort to stop the spread of the coronavirus. Drone video showed empty roads and squares throughout the Georgian capital. Residents are forbidden to leave their homes from 9 p.m. to 6 a.m. unless they have a special permit.
Police set up checkpoints on roads into the Georgian capital, Tbilisi, to screen motorist for the coronavirus. The new measures took effect on March 31. Medical personnel took the temperature of drivers and passengers, though not all infected people have a fever.
A roof-riding Tbilisi man bicycles to stay fit amid Georgia's coronavirus lockdown.
At first it was like “a well-deserved vacation” -- but that freeing feeling faded fast for a Georgian woman living in quarantine in Wuhan, China, the initial epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak that has become a global pandemic. Holed up in a 20th-floor apartment for up to 25 days at a time, Nini Davlianidze shared her thoughts with RFE/RL’s Georgian Service.
Georgian lawmakers have approved Nino Kadagidze as the new head of the country's Supreme Court.
Orthodox clergymen blessed the streets of central Tbilisi, praying for Georgia's protection from the COVID-19 pandemic.They loaded plastic drums full of holy water onto trucks and doused some of the roadways of the capital on March 17.The Georgian government has said it will prohibit the entry of foreign nationals for two weeks, starting on March 18.The country has registered more than 30 cases of the disease, as of midday on March 17, with no reported deaths.
Three Georgian students trapped in Italy are making the most of quarantine and travel restrictions: They've rewritten folk tunes to address the coronavirus crisis.
An opposition presidential candidate in Georgia's breakaway region of Abkhazia is now feeling well after being hospitalized in Russia for unclear reasons, his team says.
In her annual state of the nation address, Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili has said Moscow's policies will not divert her country from its path toward the European Union and NATO.
Georgian flags flew at half-staff as the nation marked the anniversary of the Red Army invasion of 1921, officially known as Soviet Occupation Day.
Vano Merabishvili, the former Georgian prime minister and interior minister who was credited for reforming the nation's police force, was released from prison after serving nearly seven years for embezzlement and abuse of power.
The United States and Britain have joined Georgia in blaming Russia for a massive coordinated cyberattack last year that took thousands of Georgian websites offline and even disrupted TV broadcasts.
The dead body of a Ukrainian skier in Georgia who went missing during the onset of an avalanche was found on February 11.
The U.S. Embassy in Tbilisi says it is "disappointed" with the conviction and sentencing of Georgian opposition leader Gigi Ugulava in what the jailed politician has called a politically motivated case.
Georgia's Supreme Court on February 10 sentenced opposition leader Gigi Ugulava to 3 years and 2 months in prison on charges of misusing public funds while he was mayor of the capital, Tbilisi.
Georgia's prosecutorial council has nominated former Prosecutor-General Irakli Shotadze to take back the post, despite opposition from human rights defenders.
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