Marina Vashakmadze

Also by Marina Vashakmadze

• June 19, 2015

  Tbilisi Zookeeper Lives, Dies For Her Animals

  Guliko Chitadze, a veteran animal keeper who drowned when a flash flood swept through the Tbilisi Zoo, had recently returned to work after being mauled by tigers.

• August 02, 2013

  In Georgian Reunion, Two Families' Lives Come Full Circle

  Elizabeth Stone, a medal-winning U.S. Paralympic swimmer, never knew who brought her into the world or why she was given up at birth. The Khurtsidze family, thousands of miles away in rural Georgia, always wondered what happened to the disabled child they left at a local orphanage. Now, after an emotional reunion, everything is clear.

• November 22, 2012

  For U.S. Athlete And Georgian Birth Family, A Past And Present Revealed

  U.S. Paralympic swimmer Elizabeth Stone has come a long way since being given up for adoption shortly after her birth in an impoverished Georgian village. News of her achievements made its way to the family that gave her up more than two decades ago, and ended decades of fear and uncertainty.

• January 25, 2012

  Georgian Captain Recounts Somali Hostage Ordeal

  Fifteen Georgian and three Turkish sailors returned home earlier this month after spending 16 months being held hostage by Somali pirates. The ship's 63-year-old captain, Memed Zakaradze, recounts the ordeal.

• August 30, 2010

  Following The Tracks Of The 'Disappeared' on Georgia's Abkhaz Border

  As the world marks the International Day of the Disappeared on August 30, Georgia's tiny Tsalenjikha District, along the Abkhaz-Georgian administrative border, remains fraught with anxiety over the fate of its missing persons.

• June 01, 2010

  In Georgia and Moldova, Worries That EU Special Reps -- And Their Protection -- May Vanish

  Officials in Moldova and Georgia are reacting with concern to speculation that the EU is poised to remove special representatives appointed to their regions. If confirmed, the change would signal a major downgrading in the EU's strategic interest in both Chisinau and the countries of the South Caucasus.

• October 06, 2009

  After Russia-Georgia Report, A Sense Of 'What Now?'

  In the wake of last week's EU report on the Russia-Georgia war, many in the West are wondering what can be done to prevent the conflict from repeating itself. For answers, RFE/RL's Georgian Service spoke to Lithuanian Foreign Minister Vygaudas Usackas and Ron Asmus of the German Marshall Fund.

• January 05, 2009

  Rising Star Calls Georgian President 'Misguided'

  As disenchantment grows with the former darling of Georgia's Rose Revolution, President Saakashvili's most strident critics are already on the lookout for a possible counterweight. Could 35-year-old Irakli Alasania be their man?

• August 30, 2008

  Border Villages Being 'Russified'

  Thousands of people living near the border dividing Georgia and its breakaway region of South Ossetia fled the region following fighting between Georgian and Russian forces. Now, that flow is continuing amid reports of incursions by Ossetian militias and the "Russification" of villages.

• August 07, 2008

  Georgia Offers Cease-Fire To Breakaway Region

  Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili has offered South Ossetia a unilateral cease-fire in an effort to deescalate rapidly rising tensions between the two sides.