Georgia

Explore our coverage of Georgia’s politics, economics, business and culture


Europe

Police brutality is not stopping Georgia’s protests

Pro-EU demonstrations continue, despite little help from abroad

Leaders

Keep the Caucasus safe from Russia

Georgia’s protesters and president need help

Podcast The Intelligence

The election of Georgia’s new footballer president has incited anger, not calm

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Europe

Protests threaten Georgia’s Kremlin-friendly government

A constitutional crisis over the presidency escalates

International

Will the West betray or save anti-Putin protesters in Georgia?

Democratic activists in Russia’s near-abroad pin their hopes on admission by the EU and NATO

Podcast The Intelligence

Georgia’s people protest against a future under Russia’s thumb

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Europe

Huge anti-Russian protests in Tbilisi echo Ukraine’s Maidan

A turn away from the EU plunges Georgia into crisis

Europe

Georgia’s ruling party crushes the country’s European dream

Russia gloats, while the opposition and the president allege massive fraud

Europe

Georgia’s government cosies up to Russia

Pro-Western Georgians seem powerless to stop it

Podcast The Weekend Intelligence

Georgia… the day after tomorrow

Tactics from the Russian playbook

1843 magazine | Georgians fear their country is becoming like Russia

Critics of the government face targeted thuggery

Europe

Protests against a Russian-style law threaten Georgia’s government

The country’s behind-the-scenes ruler may want to scotch its EU candidacy

Culture

A gripping, genre-bending novel explores Georgia’s troubled history

“Hard by a Great Forest” is at once a puzzle hunt and an affecting meditation on exile

1843 magazine | The prisoner and the oligarch: the struggle for Georgia’s future

Can Mikheil Saakashvili, a former president, win back the hearts of his countrymen?

By Invitation

Mikheil Saakashvili on the lessons from Georgia

Forget hopes of normalising relations with Vladimir Putin, says Georgia’s ex-president