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The Belarus under-21 national football team will play its home matches for the 2027 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualifiers in Gori, Georgia, at the Tengiz Burjanadze Stadium. According to UEFA’s official website, the Gori stadium has been designated as the home venue for…

The World Fencing Championships officially opened in Tbilisi and will run from July 22 to 26, featuring 121 athletes — including several Russian fencers who are active officers in the Russian army and have ties to the Kremlin. Among them are Major Sofiya Velikaya, Lieutenant…

Giorgi Burjanadze, a lawyer and representative of Civil Society Foundation, says the Georgian Dream government is refusing to grant the necessary permission for OSCE/ODIHR to monitor court proceedings in political prisoner cases. According to Burjanadze, this information was…

Georgia’s Revenue Service seized the bank accounts of independent media outlet Batumelebi/Netgazeti on July 17 via an incasso order, citing unpaid tax debt. The outlet condemned the move as an attempt to shut down the organization, coming just days before a court is set to…

Giorgi Bachiashvili, former head of Georgia’s Co-Investment Fund and a former associate of Bidzina Ivanishvili, has accused Georgian Dream founder Bidzina Ivanishvili of orchestrating a violent attack against him in prison to force the disclosure of his private financial and…

Latvian Foreign Minister Baiba Braže has announced that 55 more Georgian citizens have been added to Latvia’s list of undesirable persons, barring them from entering the country for an indefinite period. “I have made the decision, in accordance with Article 61, Paragraph 2 of…

Giorgi Bachiashvili, former head of Georgia’s Co-Investment Fund, has reportedly been assaulted while in custody at Gldani’s No. 8 Penitentiary Facility, TV Pirveli has reported. The incident allegedly occurred over the weekend, on Bachiashvili’s birthday. Sources say…

The mother of Georgian opposition politicians Zurab and Gia Japaridze has passed away after a period of serious illness. Zurab Japaridze, sentenced to seven months in prison on July 23, referenced his mother in one of his final letters from prison, writing: “I’ve turned my…

Representatives of major international press freedom organizations — the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), Reporters Without Borders (RSF), and the International Press Institute (IPI) — gathered outside the women’s prison in Rustavi, Georgia, on Sunday to express solidarity…

Maggie Osdoby Katz, a former U.S. diplomat and OSCE staff member with longstanding ties to Georgia, was denied entry and deported by Georgian authorities this morning without explanation. Katz, who served at the U.S. Embassy in Tbilisi and later at the OSCE in Vienna, was put on…

A Tbilisi court has sentenced 19 year old student Saba Jikia to 4 years and 6 months in prison, after being convicted of kicking a police officer during a pro EU protest — a decision delivered by Judge Tamar Mkheidlishvili. The case took a controversial turn when it emerged that…

Dutch investigative outlet Follow The Money (FTM), in collaboration with Transparency International Georgia, has published an in-depth report on Imedi TV — Georgia’s largest pro-government broadcaster — and its influential owner, Irakli Rukhadze. According to the investigation,…

Zugdidi-based activist Rostevan Zarandia has been sentenced to five days in administrative detention after calling a local government employee a “fool” in a Facebook comment. Judge Irakli Abshilava ruled that Zarandia's use of the Megrelian words “poch’o” and “tvenge”—translated…

Former Chairman of the Government of Adjara, Tornike Rizhvadze, was hospitalized on July 7 with a gunshot wound to the chest. Georgian Dream propaganda media Imedi and Rustavi 2 claim Rizhvadze left a handwritten note before the incident, portraying it as a suicide attempt.…

Giorgi Ramishvili, founder of the Silk Road Group and a leading figure in Georgian business, was arrested on July 6 at Tbilisi International Airport after authorities said a firearm, magazine, and cartridges were found in his hand luggage. Although the gun was registered in…

U.S. Ambassador to Georgia Robin Dunnigan has disclosed that a letter sent by the ruling Georgian Dream (GD) party to the Trump administration was “threatening,” “insulting,” and “unserious,” adding that it was “received extremely poorly in Washington.” Speaking to RFE/RL’s…

Judge Nino Galustashvili of Tbilisi City Court has sentenced 21-year-old Giorgi Mindadze to five years in prison. Galustashvili found Mindadze guilty of assaulting a police officer during protests outside parliament on November 29, 2024. According to prosecutors, Mindadze—a…