Sandro Gvindadze is a correspondent for RFE/RL's Georgian Service.
A group of anti-war expatriates in Georgia that helps Russians desert or evade military service has already had thousands of new inquiries since Moscow's plans to tighten its conscription system emerged.
A Tbilisi nightspot makes Russians attest to their rejection of Vladimir Putin and his occupation of territory in Georgia and nearby Ukraine. Russian radicals are not happy.
It's clearly an effort to troll the Kremlin. But it's also part of a growing global list of crypto-fund-raisers aimed at helping Ukrainian institutions, military defenders, and civilians -- all by auctioning off NFTs, the unique digital collectibles that can be sold and traded.
Zurab Chichoshvili's deadly leap from the rooftop of a dilapidated center for displaced persons in Georgia was quickly deemed "an accident" by the health minister, further angering a community protesting its treatment since being uprooted by separatist violence nearly three decades ago.
