Georgian border guards on Tuesday detained RT correspondent Donald Courter at Tbilisi International Airport. The journalist, who is a dual Russian-US citizen, has been held for about four hours in the transit zone of the airport. Georgian officials claim his documents were not recognized by their system. The border officials …
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Tbilisi’s main street, Rustaveli Avenue, was blocked for several days this week as thousands of people chanted anti-government slogans in front of the parliament building and sang the Georgian national anthem. Even more protesters gathered at the square in the evenings. By nightfall, the enraged crowd was throwing firecrackers, stones, …
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Riot police in Tbilisi deployed tear gas and water cannons late on Tuesday to disperse demonstrators besieging the Georgian parliament in protest over bills that would restrict the activities of foreign-funded organizations. Though some of the protesters dispersed, live feeds from local TV networks showed thousands still gathered outside the …
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Georgia has poured cold water on a call from the Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine for the opening of a “second [military] front” against Russia. Alexey Danilov was appearing live on Kiev’s 1+1 TV station late on Saturday. The senior official said that, should new …
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Russia’s Foreign Ministry expanded on the idea of a comprehensive security deal with the West on Thursday, releasing a lengthy statement on Friday. The idea of this agreement was that it would provide concrete, legally-binding security guarantees for multiple parties in Europe. It was first floated by Russian President Vladimir …
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Speaking on Thursday, Ekaterine Tikaradze, remarked that “there is no country as special as Georgia in the world – we are unique, and based on that, we will have two green [Covid-19] passes.” One of these, she said, will last “indefinitely” for use domestically. According to the minister, Georgians, unlike …
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The small but strategically important Caucasus country elected the American-backed Mikhail Saakashvili to serve as president from 2004 to 2013. Still revered by some as an eminent reformer but loathed by others as a self-seeking political gambler given to histrionics and authoritarian tendencies, he has just tried and failed to …
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Saakashvili’s coming to Georgia was widely perceived as a game of dare with the authorities, as he had several convictions in absentia on charges of abuse of power. However, Georgian Dream leader Irakli Kobakhidze said the police had a more urgent reason for detaining the controversial politician, as he had …
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Saakashvili was arrested by law enforcement and incarcerated, Irakly Garibalishvili told the media, on Friday evening. “I want to inform our society that the third president of Georgia, the wanted Mikhail Saakashvili, has been detained,” the prime minister explained. Based in Ukraine in recent years, Saakashvili unexpectedly announced plans to …
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Speaking to Forbes, Aleksey Danilov focused his accusations on Paris, saying that France’s actions led to Kiev losing control over Crimea, as well parts of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions, and contributed to Tbilisi’s loss of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. “Our international partners reproach us and say that we haven’t …
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