Georgia

Lelo - Georgian rugby with highly unusual rules

April 20, 2017

Lelo is played with a 16-kilogram ball, filled with sawdust and soil. According to the game rules, the winning team takes the ball to a late friend’s grave to leave it there forever. Here is the history and rules of this 'traditional' Georgian rugby game

Op-ed: Georgian parliamentary fight discredits country

April 20, 2017

Improving driving standards and eradicating domestic violence will bring Georgia closer to Europe

Ship sinks in the Black Sea

April 19, 2017

One Georgian national is among those who died

Georgian MP sustains head injury

April 19, 2017

MPs were throwing cups, pens and ashtrays in the Parliament session today. The first brawl in the Parliament of the 9th convocation.

Russian FM spends two days in Abkhazia

April 19, 2017

Sergey Lavrov’s visit to Abkhazia caused much ado among Sukhum residents

‘Hostages’ - when the end is already known

April 18, 2017

A film about "the airplane boys" hitting theatres in Georgia on 20 April

Russian foreign minister to inaugurate new embassy building and introduce new ambassador in Abkhazia

April 18, 2017

The two-day visit is meant to solidify Abkhazia’s international positions

Who are the Yazidis and why are they fleeing from IS to the South Caucasus?

April 18, 2017

The life of the most invisible and persecuted people by Islamists

Georgia in murky waters as Russia-America relations sour

April 15, 2017

Whatever else might be said of President Putin, he is no madman given to lashing out impulsively, and might treat his unstable ally-turned-rival gingerly in the future

Georgia quits buying natural gas from Gazprom in 2017

April 14, 2017

Georgia refuses Russian gas

New constitution has no clause on labor supervision

April 13, 2017

Alarming statistics: Between 2011 and 2015, as many as 212 people died at work

Orthodoxy advancing into Georgian schools

April 12, 2017

Atheists - the most vulnerable religious minority in Georgia

Abkhazia-Georgia: line of demarcation - a quarter century after the war

April 12, 2017

Report on a life along the dividing line

South Ossetia follows the path of Israel

April 12, 2017

It's not South Ossetia anymore, but the State of Alania. The referendum on 9 April on this issue was supported by 80 percent of voters

"I wanted to do something" - four stories on women farmers

April 11, 2017

“I was milking a cow when my neighbour told me that there would be an meeting related to available grants. I mounted a horse and went there. Now I have over 300 bee families and soon I will be travelling to the US to take a course there.”

Georgia’s new constitution taking shape amid controversy

April 11, 2017

What are the major highlights of the new draft constitution?

Husband and wife killed in Gali’s Sida village

April 10, 2017

"If you’ve sold your crops and have some money on you, you’d better stay awake.’ Gali residents live in constant fear of robberies

South Ossetia electing its president

April 09, 2017

The leader and the name of South Ossetia to be revealed today

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