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Georgia: More Questions than Answers about Death of ISIS-Linked Ahmed Chatayev
When Georgia’s Fighting “Terrorists,” How Much Does the Public Need to Know?
US Approves Long-Sought Sale of Anti-Tank Missiles to Georgia
Georgian and Russian Orthodox Church Vow to Jointly Resolve “Abkhazian Schism”
Pentagon Looking to Georgia to Help Arm Syrian Rebels
Syria (EAN) – The United States negotiated with Georgia to buy weapons for Syrian rebel militias. While both the Pentagon and the Georgian government confirmed the deal, the Georgian government said it was still waiting for formal confirmation on where the…
Georgia: Great Expectations Accompany US Vice Presidential Visit
(EAN) – The Trump administration’s foreign policy has been, to put it mildly, unpredictable. But when U.S. Vice President Mike Pence visited Georgia, both sides strove to pretend that everything was normal. Pence, the most senior Trump administration official to visit…
Georgia: Are the Police Backsliding?
(EAN) – The reform of Georgia’s law-enforcement apparatus was once the pride of the country and still serves as a model for the rest of the former Soviet space. But a series of high-profile incidents of alleged police misconduct have highlighted…
Georgia Serves as Proving Ground for Experiment to Eradicate Hepatitis C
Georgia (EAN) – Thousands of Georgians have been cured of hepatitis C as a result of a giant experiment, in which the ex-Soviet nation tests the effectiveness of an aggressive public-health strategy. In the unprecedented project, all Georgians suffering from hepatitis…
Georgia: Authorities Use Blockchain Technology for Developing Land Registry
Georgia (EAN) – In a bid to bolster property rights, Georgia is pioneering a new system for registering land titles and property transactions, using the same type of blockchain technology that underpins the virtual currency Bitcoin. Georgian authorities created the system with…
Georgia: Five-Year-Old Prince Prepares to Reign
Georgia (EAN) – Like many doting parents, five-year-old Giorgi’s post cute pictures of him on Facebook: blowing out candles on a birthday cake, or wearing red plastic sunglasses behind the wheel of a car, pretending to drive. But the comments below…
Georgia: First Daughter Claims Drug Raid Aimed at President Giorgi Margvelashvili
Georgia (EAN) – Georgian President Giorgi Margvelashvili’s daughter, Ana Margvelashvili, has accused the police of fabricating evidence of illegal-drug possession against her friends and family members in possible retaliation against her father’s refusal to side with the ruling party. In a…
Georgia’s Parking-Ticket Revolution
Georgia (EAN) – Parking tickets may be hated universally, but car owners in the Georgian city of Batumi took it to an extreme this past Saturday with mass rioting that revived old memories of civil unrest. The political blame-game that followed…
Georgia: PM Stokes Debate About Discrimination and the Sex Industry
Georgia (EAN) – In the heart of Tbilisi, not far from luxury hotels and high-end shops, lie dingy, Soviet-era catacombs that serve as everything from a public urinal and dumpster to the capital’s alleged epicenter of sex tourism. Ensconced in this…
Georgia: Mass Marijuana-Planting Party Planned for New Year’s
A Georgian political party plans to ring in the New Year by planting weed as an act of civil disobedience against the Caucasus country’s stringent anti-drug policies.
Members of the party, which, incidentally, has the botanical name of Pine Cone (Girchi/გირჩი), are inviting likeminded individuals to join them in a pot-planting fest a minute before midnight on December 31. Anyone of age is welcome to come along, Pine Cone said in a press release.
The procedure, staged at the party’s main Tbilisi office, will be broadcast live in a bid to push the Georgian government toward the full decriminalization of marijuana use. The name of the broadcaster was not given.