Rustam Ibragimbekov knew going up against Azerbaijan's leader in the country's presidential elections would pose a daunting challenge. But he’s finding it a big hurdle just to throw his hat in the ring.
Hundreds of Georgian protesters, assembled by Georgian Orthodox Church priests, descended on an anti-homophobia rally in Tbilisi to express their opposition to LGBT rights.
Past armed conflicts over breakaway South Ossetia notwithstanding, a seven-man troupe of ethnic Ossetian trick-equestrians, the Ensemble Alania, was a Tbilisi-crowd favorite at a show this January.