Opponents of Georgia's ruling party protested in Tbilisi on October 26, marking one year since elections that international monitors said were seriously flawed. The Georgian Dream party's decision to halt EU accession talks soon after the election set off a movement of nightly protests.
Thousands of Iranian companies are registered to a handful of Georgian addresses -- including 700 at one Tbilisi building -- raising questions about sanctions evasion and state contracting.
The 2025 Sakharov Prize has been awarded to a pair of journalists -- the Polish-Belarusian Andrzej Poczobut and Georgian Mzia Amaglobeli -- both of whom are currently serving time in jail for charges related to their work reporting on democracy and civil society.
Brussels will host top officials from across Central Asia and the Caucasus as the EU aims to use its influence and pocketbook to push back against Beijing and Moscow.
In the Wider Europe newsletter this week, it's a Georgia double bill: Will the EU finally withdraw visa liberalization for Tbilisi, and can Brussels sanction Georgian TV stations?
The European Union is set to approve new rules that would make it easier to suspend visa liberalization for third country nationals traveling into the bloc, a measure aimed in large part at Georgia amid signs Tbilisi is drifting away from democratic reforms and back toward Moscow.
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze threatened anti-government activists with further arrests as tensions remained high in the Caucasus nation following a weekend of mass protests in the country's capital, Tbilisi.
Tbilisi remained tense after a night of clashes between protesters and riot police during local elections that saw the ruling Georgian Dream party tighten its grip on power amid opposition boycotts and growing Western concern that the country is drifting closer to Moscow.
Georgian riot police used tear gas, pepper spray, and water cannon to repel anti-government protesters from the country's presidential palace
Thousands take to the streets of Tbilisi, attempting to enter the presidential palace on the day of municipal elections, as Georgian police use pepper spray and water cannons to push protesters back.
Opposition leaders in Georgia are using local elections on October 4 as a focus to reinvigorate anti-government protests that have largely fizzled out in recent months, but a call to boycott the voting has underscored divisions in their ranks.
The EU’s top human rights award, the Sakharov Prize, will be decided this fall. With nominees ranging from jailed Belarusian journalist Andrzej Poczobut to Palestinian aid workers, political jockeying in the European Parliament is already underway.
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