Opposition leader wins South Ossetia presidential election
President-elect Alan Gagloyev is a former intelligence officer of South Ossetia’s KGB.
‘Serious blow to Georgian studies’: government under fire for denying entry to British scholar
Scholars and rights advocates have scrambled to hold the government to account after a Tehran-born British researcher was denied entry to Georgia.
Censorship and violence: the challenges to press freedom in the Caucasus in 2022
OC Media spoke with journalists from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Daghestan, and Georgia about the challenges they must overcome to report the news.
Georgia denies entry to British woman ‘because of her birthplace’
The incident corroborates testimonies of racial profiling at Georgian border control points.
Face of Georgian pro-Russian group Alt Info dropped as party leader
Zurab Makharadze has been the face of the violent far-right group from its early days.
Georgian Dream pushes ahead with invasive new surveillance bill
The ruling party have tabled proposals to expand the powers of law enforcement agencies to indefinitely surveil suspects in criminal cases.
Georgia sends parliamentary delegation to Bucha and Irpin
Ruling party officials had previously demanded that Ukraine remove several Georgians with connections to the opposition before such a visit could take place.
Russian émigrés face chilly reception in Georgia
Worries over war-related migration from Russia reflect Georgians’ struggle to make sense of the war in Ukraine.
Georgian Dream edges closer to taking back the Batumi legislature
While the Batumi city council is now formally hung, a ‘neutral’ candidate is suspected to be a ruling party ally.
Arrests in Tbilisi as fuel price protests block central interchange
Police arrested 20 protesters in Tbilisi and two others in Kutaisi for disrupting traffic.