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Kakha Kaladze’s meeting with Khamzat Chimaev. Screengrabs from Kaladze’s Instagram video.

Georgia

Kaladze meets Kadyrov-linked UFC fighter Chimaev, calls him ‘brother’

by Mikheil Gvadzabia

•2 min read

Tbilisi Mayor Kakha Kaladze has once again met with Khamzat Chimaev, a Chechen MMA fighter closely associated with Chechen Head Ramzan Kadyrov. As with the previous meeting in 2024, Kaladze and Chimaev met in Tbilisi. Footage of the meeting was shared on Instagram by Kaladze, who is also the Secretary General of the ruling Georgian Dream party. In the video, Kaladze is seen hugging Chimaev and another person, while the caption reads: ‘Welcome to Tbilisi, my brother’. The footage was likely fil

The tram in Tbilisi in 1984. Photo: Bernhard Kußmagk via memogzauri.com

Georgia

Ahead of elections, Tbilisi Mayor Kaladze promises to bring trams back to city

by Mikheil Gvadzabia

•3 min read

Mayor Kakha Kaladze announced that the Tbilisi City Hall will launch a tender for the construction of a tram line.

First responders at the scene of the accident. Photo: Interior Ministry/Facebook.

Georgia

Dilapidated building in Tbilisi partially collapses, killing two and sparking outrage

by OC Media

•5 min read

Tbilisi residents had previously warned the building was in bad shape.

Abkhazia

Video | No Place to Live — IDPs in Georgia

by Dato Parulava

•0 min read

After almost three decades since the war in Abkhazia, thousands of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) are still waiting for the government to provide them with homes. Why are they are still waiting?

Protestors stand near the entrance to Rustaveli Metro Station. Photo: OC Media.

Georgia

In pictures | Black Lives Matter protest in Tbilisi

by OC Media

•3 min read

Several dozen protestors gathered in front of Tbilisi’s Rustaveli Metro Station on 4 June to support the ongoing demonstrations in the United States against racism and police brutality. The protest was composed of demonstrators from Georgia and around the world, including several Americans living in Georgia. They held signs declaring that ‘Black Lives Matter’ and calling for an end to police violence and repression. Demonstrations erupted in hundreds of cities throughout the United States

You can buy a bust of Stalin for ₾40 ($14) on the Samgori second-hand market. Photo: Sofi Mdivnishvili/OC Media.

Economy

In pictures | Struggle in the open-air: Tbilisi’s Navtlughi Bazaar

by Volodymyr Soboliev

•3 min read

The open-air bazaars of Tbilisi began with the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, as newly-independent Georgia experienced political and economic turmoil. Having lost their jobs and homes, newly-destitute citizens began selling their possessions as hyperinflation decimated pensions and savings. At the Navtlughi Bazaar in Samgori, different nationalities congregate with the same objectives. Georgians, Russians, Armenians and Azeris work side by side without regard for ethnic ori

Georgia

Transgender employee attacked in Spar supermarket in Tbilisi

by OC Media

•3 min read

A transgender employee of the Spar supermarket chain has been attacked in Tbilisi because of her gender identity, queer rights group the Equality Movement has reported. According to the group, one man has been charged for the attack, which occurred last month. They said the employee, who was not seriously injured, had appealed to them for help. The incident is the third attack on an employee of Spar in Tbilisi in the last two months. The Equality Movement cited the woman as saying that