Pro-government media is reporting that Garibashvili will be replaced by Irakli Kobakhidze, who is also known as fiercely loyal to the ruling party's billionaire founder.
In addition to the risk of the Ukraine War spreading to Georgian territory, the planned Russian naval base in Abkhazia could threaten Georgia's status as a global east-west connectivity hub.
Russian peacekeeping troops in Nagorno-Karabakh presided over the exodus of the entire population they were sent there to protect. Moscow says they've done a great job.
For years to come, its violent dissolution will loom large in the Armenian consciousness and reverberate across other majority-minority conflicts around the globe.
The Georgian capital will soon be shooting away fireworks like there's no tomorrow. For some of the city's non-human denizens there indeed may not be a tomorrow.