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Zarif Tbilisi

Iranians report arbitrary ban at Georgian border

In recent years the Caucasus country has become a magnet for Iranian students, business owners, and dissidents. But now many report they’re not being allowed to enter.
Giorgi Lomsadze Sep 24, 2021
Will they return? (Education Ministry)

COVID deepens digital divide in Georgian schools

Poor and rural families are not equipped to handle online school. Now they fear another academic year is going to start with schools still closed.
Giorgi Lomsadze Aug 19, 2021
A vial of Sinopharm (photos by the Georgian Health Ministry)

Georgia: The discreet inevitability of Chinese vaccines

A few months ago, the thought of taking a Chinese COVID vaccine was unthinkable to Georgians. Now it’s the norm.
Giorgi Lomsadze Jul 8, 2021
boy in Georgia

Georgia: Brunch in a time of plague

After some early success in fighting COVID, Georgia let down its guard. Then I did, too.
Giorgi Lomsadze May 26, 2021
Health Minister Ekaterine Tikaradze receiving the AstraZeneca vaccine on March 23. (government handout)

Georgian COVID immunization drive stumbles out of the gate

The death of a nurse, hasty European policy decisions and the Georgian church’s indifference all have contributed to a rocky rollout for the vaccination campaign.
Giorgi Lomsadze Mar 24, 2021
Health Ministry Georgia

Awaiting the COVID vaccine, Georgians are split between skeptical and eager

More than 40 percent of Georgians say they don’t want to get the jab, which could complicate public health efforts when the vaccines finally arrive.
Giorgi Lomsadze Feb 3, 2021
Torosyan vaccine

Caucasus vaccine effort infected with geopolitics

The COVID-19 vaccination experiences of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia show that if you’re a small and poor country, you need to rely on powerful friends.
Giorgi Lomsadze Jan 12, 2021
Tikaradze visiting a hospital in Batumi

Georgia’s COVID outbreak grows from molehill to “Everest”

In the early days of the pandemic, Georgia enjoyed one of the most enviable rates in the world. Things began to fall apart in late summer.
Giorgi Lomsadze Dec 7, 2020
Fire breathing

Georgia experiences its first wave of COVID-19

With their borders still largely closed, Georgians hit the beach and let their guard down. The epidemiological result was inevitable.
Giorgi Lomsadze Sep 18, 2020
all photos by Giorgi Lomsadze

Georgia’s park of runaway trees

Crowds are flocking to visit a new botanical wonderland that stands as testimony to the sway the billionaire chairman of the country’s ruling party holds over the nation.
Giorgi Lomsadze Aug 19, 2020
Testing in Tbilisi

A Georgian COVID-19 survival story

Georgia’s coronavirus prevention efforts have been widely praised. But its treatment strategy also appears to have been a success.
Giorgi Lomsadze Jul 1, 2020
Yerevan city gov

Armenia: US government funding COVID disinformation

Articles on the U.S. Embassy-sponsored website call COVID-19 a "fake pandemic" and oppose vaccines. Health experts warn it could make the crisis worse.
Tatev Hovhannisyan May 28, 2020
The Chachava Clinic, one of the oldest maternity hospitals in Georgia, started surrogacy services in 2014 (photo: Chachava Clinic)

Parents struggle to reach newborn surrogates in Georgia

Dozens of babies are marooned in hospitals, their international parents unable to travel during the coronavirus crisis.
Pearly Jacob May 27, 2020
Screenshot from the video for Azerbaijan's entry for Eurovision 2020, Cleopatra.

Eurovision shines a light into Caucasus identity politics

This year, Azerbaijan embraces both the Orient and bisexuality, while Georgia complains about the West.
Joshua Kucera May 14, 2020
Washing the streets in Tbilisi

Coronavirus changes not just life, but also death in Georgia

The pandemic has profoundly changed funeral culture in Georgia. Death is a very elaborate matter here.
Giorgi Lomsadze Apr 24, 2020

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