Arsen Babayan has been charged with fraud and ‘colluding to usurp power’.
More Georgian Dream MPs abandon party over electoral reform u-turn
Twelve MPs have now left the ruling party after their colleagues voted down an electoral reform package promised to protesters five months ago.
‘Here you are nobody’: Georgians struggle to receive asylum in France
Some families were forced to live in tents outside Montpellier city hall.
In pictures | Rustavi: The city of factories
Rustavi’s factories have led to ‘alarming’ levels of air pollution in the city — local activists, backed by the city council, are getting fed up.
Voice | ‘Life is tough for a young widow’
A woman from Duisi, Pankisi Valley, speaks of being married too young, losing a husband and the hardships of being a widow in a conservative society.
Opinion | Nearly two years after the killing of Temirlan Machalikkashvili there are still no answers
The 19-year old from the Pankisi Valley was shot in his bed by Georgian security forces.
Georgian Dream MPs block switch to fully proportional electoral system
Transitioning to a proportional system was a key concession made by the government in the wake of mass protests in the capital in June.
Daghestani residents storm Gazprom office
They attempted to break down the office door with a wooden bench.
Azerbaijani authorities thwart protest by opposition Musavat Party
Several senior party members including party leader Arif Hajili were detained before the protest was due to take place.
Ingush counterterror head shot dead in Moscow
Ibragim Eldzherkiyev and his brother were shot dead on 2 November in Moscow in an apparant assassination.
Feature Stories
‘Here you are nobody’: Georgians struggle to receive asylum in France
Some families were forced to live in tents outside Montpellier city hall.
Russia’s war on Jehovah’s Witnesses reaches Daghestan
After Russia banned the organisation as an ‘extremist sect’ in 2017, four Jehovah’s Witnesses are now on trial in Daghestan.
Blasphemy at the puppet theatre: death metal band sparks freedom of speech debate in Armenia
The controversy was sparked by a Facebook post calling Polish band Vader: ‘Satanist’.
Georgian Muslim villages fight back against Orthodox Church land-grab
Local residents claim the lands are vital for them to sustain their families, but local church officials don’t share their concerns.
Competing protests and the death of a witness: month one of Armenia’s ‘trial of the century’
The controversial trial has recently been rocked by the death of a key witness.
‘Illegal’ land seizures go unpunished in Daghestan
The seizure of land by false municipal resolutions and illegal documents has become a streamlined corruption mechanism in Daghestan.
