Georgia’s fifth President Salome Zourabichvili warned that Georgia was at risk of becoming a grey zone where Russians could bypass Western sanctions.
The dispute revolved around efforts to recover the assets of billionaire opposition figure Badri Patarkatsishvili following his death in 2008.
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The UK has announced it has suspended a number dialogue formats with Georgia, citing the government’s anti-democratic actions. In an interview with the Georgian news agency IPN published on Tuesday, the British Ambassador to Georgia, Gareth Ward, said the move came in response to democratic backsliding and anti-Western rhetoric by the Georgian government. He said the UK had frozen the Wardrop Dialogue, an annual British-Georgian strategic dialogue format, cancelled high-level talks betwee
The United Kingdom’s National Crime Agency (NCA) is seeking the forfeiture of £15 million ($20.5 million) in assets held by the relatives of prominent Azerbaijani MP Javanshir Feyziyev. The NCA reportedly believes that the money had been transferred to the UK through the so-called Azerbaijani Laundromat, a multi-billion ‘complex money-laundering scheme’ uncovered by the Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) and partner outlets, including Le Monde and The Guardian, in 2017.
Refugees displaced by the war in Nagorno-Karabakh have held a series of demonstrations in front of the US and UK embassies as well as the EU and UN missions in Armenia. Almost 1,000 women and children gathered on Monday in front of the American Embassy calling for US recognition of Nagorno-Karabakh as an independent state. They also called on the US to sanction Turkey and Azerbaijan and send humanitarian assistance for those forced to flee the conflict. The authorities in Nagorno-Karabakh ha
Georgia has expelled a Russian Diplomat from the country in solidarity with the UK, over the Salisbury chemical attack. Georgia joins at least 26 countries who have expelled Russian intelligence officers and diplomats in the wake of the attack. On Thursday, Georgia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs gave the diplomat seven days to leave Georgia. The diplomat, who is a staff member at the Russian Federation Interests Section at the Embassy of Switzerland in Tbilisi, has now been declared a per
