Giorgi Bachiashvili had been sentenced to 11 years in a case linked to the founder of Georgia’s ruling party, Bidzina Ivanishvili.
The defendants face up to 12 years in prison.
Georgia’s rating increased from 2024, while those of Armenia and Azerbaijan both dropped.
The case against Khadzhimurat Gatsalov, initiated in May 2025, has been fully closed.
OC Media’s Robin Fabbro, Dominik Cagara, and Mariam Nikuradze talk about OC Media’s plans to survive and thrive in the new global reality.
Ana Urushadze’s 2017 debut film follows a Tbilisi housewife whose secret manuscript unravels the fragile architecture of family life.
In a letter shared from prison, Azerbaijani researcher and OC Media contributor Bahruz Samadov speaks about philosophy and the hypocrisy of the Aliyev regime.
In 2024, roughly one in five Armenians could not afford minimum food and basic non-food items.
George Sikharulidze’s feature debut explores the fractured dual life of a Tbilisi teenager caught between religious surveillance and repressed desire.
Vance’s visits to Armenia and Azerbaijan come as a tangible illustration of the growing US interest in the two countries, especially as Russian influence recedes.
Freedom Square sees anti-government resistance as important, but not enough on its own.
Unlike the celebrated wine industry, the mandarin is not an ancient Georgian tradition but rather a manufactured Soviet tool hanging by a thread.
JD Vance’s visit to the South Caucasus was not about taking over the region — it was about partnership and, paradoxically, independence.
A new draconian legislative package that vaguely defines a ‘foreign grant’ is placing anyone tangentially related to politics at risk of imprisonment.
By flaunting their own traffic rules, the Kadyrov family has created a reality in which even their own children are no longer safe.
