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August 22, 2024

Planning a Wipeout

Georgia’s ruling Georgian Dream party said on Tuesday it would ban opposition parties if it wins the upcoming parliamentary election, a vow that sparked renewed concerns over authoritarian backsliding in the Caucasian nation, Politico reported. The move would primarily target the United National Movement (UNM), the...

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July 25, 2024

Never Safe

Georgia’s security service on Wednesday launched an investigation into a plot to assassinate senior politicians from the country’s ruling party, including a former prime minister, amid allegations against the government of democratic backsliding, Politico reported. The State Security Service of Georgia (SUS) announced it was looking...

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July 09, 2024

Near Abroad Politics

Earlier this year, Georgian civilians clashed with riot police in Tbilisi, the capital of the former Soviet republic in the Caucasus, after the pro-Russian government revived the so-called “foreign agents” law designed to crack down on nonprofits, journalists and other civil society groups that receive...

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June 06, 2024

Moscow Rules

Georgia’s ruling party is planning a new bill that would strip same-sex couples of their rights and target so-called “LGBT propaganda,” a move that marks another break from the former Soviet republic’s aspirations to join the European Union and a pivot toward its former master,...

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May 16, 2024

The Russian Law

Georgian lawmakers this week approved a law targeting foreign-funded organizations and media amid massive ongoing protests, with analysts saying the move could suppress anti-corruption advocates and jeopardize the country’s bid to join the European Union (EU), Politico reported. Protesters have called the bill the “Russian law”...

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May 02, 2024

Looking West

Georgian police arrested 63 people after thousands of pro-European Union protesters gathered in the capital Tbilisi this week to denounce a “foreign influence” bill that critics say undermines the Caucasus nation’s aspirations to join the 27-nation bloc, Agence France Presse reported. The detentions followed clashes between...

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April 10, 2024

Into the Folds

Groups of demonstrators protested in front of Georgia’s parliament this week against a controversial bill that would allow the government to crack down on civil society organizations by labeling them “foreign agents,” a move that threatens to harm the country’s chances of joining the European...

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January 30, 2024

Saving Stalin

The late communist dictator Josef Stalin is arguably the most controversial native son of the former Soviet republic of Georgia. Mixed feelings about Stalin, who defeated the Nazis, turned the Soviet Union into a world power, but also oversaw an iron-fisted regime that persecuted tens of...

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October 19, 2023

Butting Heads

Georgian President Salome Zurabichvili survived an impeachment vote Wednesday, a motion that came after the country’s constitutional court ruled that she violated the constitution after visiting European Union countries without government consent, Radio Free Europe reported. The motion was recommended by the ruling Georgian Dream party,...

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June 21, 2023

Baby Wars

The Georgian government is working on a draft law to regulate surrogacy and in vitro fertilization more strictly, a move that has sparked concern among the country’s surrogacy industry and foreign parents seeking to have children via surrogacy from the South Caucasus nation, Radio Free...

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May 02, 2023

Hearts and Minds

The prime minister of the ex-Soviet republic of Georgia, Irakli Garibashvili, recently met European and NATO leaders in Brussels to press the case for his country’s admission into both Western organizations. Garibashvili and his fellow citizens felt snubbed when the European Union offered candidacy status for...

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April 11, 2023

Dreams and Nightmares

Thousands of opposition supporters protested in Georgia’s capital this week amid growing criticism that the country’s government is moving toward autocracy and collaborating with Russia, Euronews reported. Protesters marched in front of the parliament in Tbilisi, calling for the “release of political prisoners and the implementation...

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March 09, 2023

On the Wire

Georgian lawmakers withdrew a controversial “foreign agents” bill after it had passed only its first reading amid fears it would damage the country’s relations with the West as the draft law threatened to curtail the country’s basic freedoms, CNN reported. The legislation also sparked days of...

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June 22, 2022

We, Too!

Tens of thousands of Georgians marched in the streets of the capital, Tbilisi, this week to demand closer relations with the European Union, just days after the European Commission recommended deferring Georgia’s candidacy, Agence France-Presse reported. Roughly 60,000 people rallied outside the Georgian parliament waving Ukrainian,...

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