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Thousands of protesters returned to the Georgian parliament to demand early legislative elections and the resignation of the country's interior minister.
Thousands of Georgians are protesting peacefully a day after violent clashes with police that were touched off after a Russian member of parliament was allowed to sit in the speaker’s chair of the Georgian parliament during a session of the assembly.
Thousands of furious protesters have gathered outside the parliament building in Tbilisi after a Russian lawmaker occupied the speaker’s seat inside the legislature during a meeting of European parliamentarians representing Orthodox Christians.
Organizers delayed the start of Tbilisi Pride events after a triple wallop from the Orthodox Church, antigay agitators, and Georgian authorities.
The U.S. State Department and Amnesty International (AI) have called on the Georgian authorities to guarantee the safety of participants in LGBT "Tbilisi Pride" activities that have been scheduled this week in the capital.
Georgian police have detained at least eight people as conservative activists faced off against gay and lesbian protesters who rallied outside a government building demanding more support from officials.
Georgian voters are heading to the polls on May 19 to elect one parliament member and mayors and city councils in some cities. Among early voters in the by-elections in the capital, Tbilisi, was billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili, a former prime minister and leads the ruling Georgian Dream party.
Voters in the Georgian city of Zugdidi are electing a mayor in a heated atmosphere on May 19. Bodyguards and police had to push away angry supporters of the ruling Georgian Dream party as they confronted Nika Gvaramia, the director of Rustavi-2 television.
Candidates of the ruling Georgian Dream party appeared poised to win local by-elections held in Georgia, according to preliminary results.
Celebrations marking the 74th anniversary of the Allied victory over Nazi Germany were marred in Georgia on May 9 by shouting matches between rival demonstrators and the booing of President Salome Zurabishvili during a memorial ceremony.
Clashes broke out on April 21 in Georgia’s northeastern Pankisi Gorge region between police and residents protesting the construction of a hydropower plant.
Two Saudi sisters, who say they fled their own country because of “oppression,” have applied for asylum in Georgia but still feared they could be reached by their family and forced back to Saudi Arabia.
A court in London has jailed a man dubbed the "speedboat killer" by British media for an extra six months for fleeing the country.
A man dubbed the "speedboat killer" by British media after a manslaughter conviction in London is scheduled to be extradited to the United Kingdom from Georgia, where he fled last year ahead of his trial.
People came to light candles and lay flowers in the center of Tbilisi, to mark the 30th anniversary of anti-Soviet demonstrations that were violently suppressed. At least 20 people were killed in an event later seen as a turning point in the collapse of the U.S.S.R.
A Georgian court has sentenced a man to life in prison after a jury convicted him of murdering an American-Georgian couple and their 4-year-old son in July 2018.
A British man dubbed the "speedboat killer" after a manslaughter conviction in London has agreed to be extradited to the United Kingdom from Georgia, where he fled last year ahead of his trial.
A jury in the eastern city of Gori has convicted a local shepherd of murdering an American-Georgian couple and their 4-year-old son in a crime that shook the South Caucasus country last year.
During a visit to Georgia, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg has again said that the South Caucasus country will eventually join the Western military alliance, despite the Kremlin's fierce opposition.
Around 350 personnel from 24 NATO member states and partner countries started a joint military exercise in Georgia on March 18.
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