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Tens of thousands of Georgian workers are unable to access Turkish tea plantations while the border remains closed. Cultivators are anxious over debt and further privatization.

With the disease spreading far more slowly in Georgia, Armenians are asking: what did they do that we didn’t?

Facebook has pulled the plug on a fake news operation in Georgia that had been capitalizing on the coronavirus pandemic to sway public opinion in favor of the government.

The pandemic has profoundly changed funeral culture in Georgia. Death is a very elaborate matter here.

The former Georgian president is having a second go at Ukrainian politics.

The Church’s reluctance to cancel Easter services and recognize the state of emergency continues to drive controversy.

Georgia has received plaudits for its response to COVID-19. But as the biggest event in the Christian calendar approaches, the nation finds itself torn between church and state, faith and science.

One Georgian bazaar has avoided the government’s order to close by adopting a novel way to clean its money.

The coronavirus pandemic has paralyzed Georgia’s booming tourism and hospitality industry.

The Georgian lari has become one of the fastest depreciating currencies in Europe, despite the fact that coronavirus has hit the country relatively weakly.

The church’s obstinacy in not giving up the practice of sharing spoons for communion – a clear public health threat – is causing an unprecedented debate over the church’s role in society.

The vote went ahead in spite of the global coronavirus outbreak; although Abkhazia hasn’t recorded any cases, election officials took pains that the disease couldn’t be spread by voting.

As countries around the world struggle to manage the pandemic, Georgia has become an unlikely success story.

Afgan Mukhtarli was freed after nearly three years in prison. His rendering from Tbilisi drew attention to the clout that the authoritarian Azerbaijani government wielded in neighboring Georgia.

The plan targets the tourism sector but leaves others wondering what they will do as coronavirus ravages the global economy.

A long-awaited deal should make the country’s electoral system more representative of the popular will, and bring an end to the protests and instability that have seized Georgia since last summer.

A new project from the UNDP looks at women’s political representation around the region and finds modest gains over the past 25 years.

On his visit to Georgia, the Armenian prime minister called on the two countries to move beyond their long-running frenemy relations and conflicting geopolitical orientations.

All three countries have now seen cases of the disease, most of which have come from Iran.

The advice came as Georgia reported two cases of the virus, and neighboring Azerbaijan, one.

The meeting to which Tbilisi would have been obligated to invite the Russian foreign minister has been moved to Strasbourg.

Georgia, the United States and the UK all placed the blame on Russia’s military intelligence service for last October’s attack, the biggest in Georgia’s history.

The country is banking on new hydropower projects to solve energy problems. But the communities most affected don’t trust government assurances that the dams will be safe.

Following a new eruption, western embassies in Tbilisi sought to restore talks aimed at preventing the country’s political crisis from spiraling out of control.

Their numbers were growing fast, but Chinese tourists were a tiny fraction of the total.