Vazha Tavberidze

‘He wasn’t my first billionaire, so I kind of knew my way around him’, a senior US diplomat who plied his trade in Georgia told me at the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference. ‘And the weirdest thing? He was starry-eyed about Nato and the West in the beginning. I remember at one meeting with

Going up against Bidzina Ivanishvili is fraught with personal risk. The oligarch has publicly vowed to prosecute Gakharia

Tbilisi It is revealing that Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán was the first foreign leader to chime in on Georgia’s election — a full hour before the preliminary results were announced. He congratulated the ruling pro-Russian Georgian Dream party on its victory and the Moscow-friendly leader will soon visit the capital, Tbilisi, in a move that will [...]Read More...

‘He wasn't my first billionaire, so I kind of knew my way around him', a senior US diplomat who plied his trade in Georgia told me at the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference. ‘And the weirdest thing?

After the ruling party declared victory in Georgia, Estonia's former President Toomas Hendrik Ilves said Georgians are being stymied thanks in part to Russian influence, and “there has to be a price” for billionaire Georgian Dream founder Bidzina Ivanishvili and the party’s elites.

Longtime journalist Edward Lucas spoke with RFE/RL’s Georgian Service about what's in store for Georgians and their Caucasus nation following disputed national elections.

U.S. Naval War College Professor Lieutenant Colonel Jahara "Franky" Matisek talks about the state of the Russian invasion at the 1,000-day mark.

Unrest in the capital Tbilisi and elsewhere continues after the government announced suspension of EU accession talks

‘They say the human body, given time, builds a resistance to pain. But after being tear-gassed six times in 21 nights, I can't say I've started to tolerate it, let alone appreciate it,' says a colleague who hasn't missed a single night of the pro-European protests on Tbilisi's Rustaveli Avenue since 28 November. She counts herself lucky; so far, she has avoided the brutal beatings meted out by the masked riot police, nicknamed ‘robocops'. These enforcers have become the Georgian government's ruthless arm for crushing dissent, their mission seemingly to maim and mangle those who find the prospect of embracing the Kremlin's