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Javakheti, a region once notorious for neglect and separatist tendencies, is steadily building ties with the rest of Georgia.

Armenian exports to Russia are up nearly 50 percent in the first half of the year, and land transport routes via Georgia are overloaded.

Online battles between patriotic Russians and Georgians have raged, while some opposition figures are calling for a visa regime for Russians.

The 20-year-old informant for Russia’s security services was sent to Tbilisi to report on the many exiles here. Now, he says, he’s come clean.

Many have asked whether the crash, which killed eight people, and the fatal paragliding incident that necessitated the rescue flight, were preventable.

The country’s pro-Europe elite sees a millennia-old history of belonging to Europe. Will it matter for Georgia’s EU aspirations?

Land ownership is a sensitive issue in Abkhazia. The deal also sparked controversy in Georgia proper, where critics accused the government of closing its eyes to Russian expansion.

The unprecedented attacks on Georgia’s Western partners have drawn rebukes from Brussels and Washington.

The annual focus on Pride parades makes queerness a geopolitical issue. And that does not help Georgia’s LGBTQ community, which faces violence and economic marginalization.

While the country’s public defender says the group’s activities violate the constitution, others argue that banning it could set a dangerous precedent.

An attack by ruling party lawmakers on a critical TV executive has been criticized for undermining international calls for stability and for perpetuating a local culture of macho violence.

With the clock ticking for Georgia to meet the standards for EU candidate status, is forming committees going to be enough?

Georgians and Russians have not had such close contact, and on such a scale, since the breakup of Soviet Union. Now they are figuring each other out again.

At the alliance’s summit in Madrid enlargement was a top agenda item, but Georgia’s accession prospects remain unclear.

The EU is demanding a decrease in political polarization in Georgia. But the government and opposition are bitterly divided on how that should happen.

The announcement prompted a half-full-or-half-empty debate in Georgia, which is now closer than ever to EU membership but behind Ukraine and Moldova.

She used her first-ever veto to try to block a controversial surveillance bill as the government blusters in its response to criticism from Europe.

Democracy relies on a language of compromise and mediation. Georgia’s political elite, however, is fixated on “traitors” and “enemies.”

The mass slaughter of animals in the syncretic pagan-Christian Lomisoba festival is out of step with 21st-century mores, some Georgians argue.

The news from Brussels represented a significant step forward for Georgia’s European aspirations, but Ukraine and Moldova were offered quicker paths toward EU accession.

As signals from Brussels appear to foreshadow bad news for Tbilisi, the government is preemptively making excuses and the president is working on damage control.

Students are protesting that they can’t afford to return to the capital to resume their studies in person because rents have gotten so high, a trend many blame on the recent Russian influx.

The body cited Bidzina Ivanishvili’s “Kremlin links” just as the country is waiting for news from Brussels on whether it will be granted EU candidate status.

Georgian cinema has been enjoying a renaissance, becoming a darling of the international independent film world. But it’s also running into political problems at home.

Workers at Georgia’s iconic mineral water works haven’t been paid, and dozens were laid off, since the company’s Russian owners fell under American and European sanctions.