Religious minority groups in Georgia will receive financial compensation from the government for damages inflicted by the Soviet regime.
Whether new leadership in Georgia’s breakaway Republic of South Ossetia will prove capable of bringing about a substantive improvement before the parliamentary elections due in May is questionable despite the dismissal of an unpopular regional government.
Russia and Georgia have agreed to play each other if they are drawn together in the qualifying competition for the European Cup 2016 soccer championship.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said the Georgian authorities' attempts to link efforts to normalize Tbilisi-Moscow ties with the demand to revise the Kremlin's position over the two regions are "pointless, counterproductive, and will not get anything."
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili says he expects "provocations" from Russia ahead of the signing of an Association Agreement with the European Union.
Georgia's prime minister says the body of late Prime Minister Zurab Zhvania will be exhumed as part of a new investigation into his death.
Differences have emerged within the Georgian leadership over the country's desire to expedite its accession to NATO.
Criminal charges related to the alleged torture death of a suspect in custody have been filed against a former Georgian Interior Ministry official.
Ever since the population of Georgia’s autonomous republic of South Ossetia began campaigning in 1989 to secede from what was then still the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, the option of reuniting the predominantly Ossetian-populated territories that constituted a separate Caucasian kingdom in the Middle Ages has been on the agenda.
Picketers and government ministers have protested a statement by Orthodox Patriarch Ilia II suggesting children born by surrogate mothers or through artificial insemination will be "problematic" in their adulthood.
Thousands of Georgians have been flocking to the ancient town of Mtskheta after rumors that a nun had a vision of a local saint sparked a massive pilgrimage to his grave. Georgia's Orthodox Church has warned against the pilgrimage, which comes as Orthodox believers celebrate Christmas.
In his Christmas address to the nation, Georgia's Orthodox Patriarch Ilia II said that children born by surrogate mothers or through artificial insemination will be "problematic" in their adulthood.
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