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Georgia’s summer of repression puts US relations in doubt
Atlantic Council
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September 3, 2025
New Atlanticist September 3, 2025 • 1:01 pm ET Print this page By Jessica De Mesa and Andrew D’Anieri The Georgian Dream party has held power in Georgia since 2012 in large part by employing an array of authoritarian tactics, but the first seven...
Turkmen Musicians take part in Tsinandali Festival of Classic Music
Turkmenistan Golden Age
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September 5, 2025
On 4 September 2025, the 7th Tsinandali Festival of Classical Music was solemnly opened in Georgia, with the participation of musicians from the Turkmen National Conservatory named after Maya Kuliyeva. The Festival brought together eminent...
Georgian court acquits protester of drug charges
Open Caucasus Media
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September 3, 2025
The Caucasus is changing — so are we. The future of journalism in the region is grim. Independent voices are under threat — and we’re responding by building a newsroom powered by our readers. Join our community and help push back against the...
Key Member Quits Gakharia’s Party as Ex-PM Questions Parliament Boycott
Civil Georgia
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September 5, 2025
Teona Akubardia, a member of the opposition For Georgia party founded by former Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia, said she is leaving the party days after Gakharia questioned the parliamentary boycott. Akubardia joined Gakharia’s party ahead of the...
Russia and the Council of Europe: The troubled membership from the perspective of a Commissioner for Human Rights
EJIL: Talk!
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September 3, 2025
The volume Russia, the Council of Europe and the European Convention on Human Rights should be essential reading for a number of different audiences. It is very useful to have a detailed documentation of the fractious relationship of the...
Batumi Real Estate Market Active Over Summer – Bochorishvili
Business Media Gerogia
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September 3, 2025
Batumi real estate market remained active throughout the summer of 2025, according to Nato Bochorishvili, President of the Georgian National Real Estate Association. She noted that demand came largely from buyers in neighboring and Gulf countries....
Georgian media highlights strategic declaration signed between Azerbaijan and China
Azertag
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September 3, 2025
Tbilisi, September 3, AZERTAC Georgia’s respected news portal ipress.ge has published an article highlighting Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev’s meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing. The article emphasized that the leaders of...
Georgian Dream publishes 470-page report accusing Saakashvili of crimes and instigating 2008 war
Open Caucasus Media
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September 3, 2025
The Caucasus is changing — so are we. The future of journalism in the region is grim. Independent voices are under threat — and we’re responding by building a newsroom powered by our readers. Join our community and help push back against the...
Georgia opens 12th Nikozi International Animation Film Festival
Georgia Online
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September 5, 2025
The Minister of State Tea Akhvlediani attended the opening of the International Animation Film Festival “Nikozi” in the village of Nikozi of Gori municipality, Shida Kartli region. The Office of the State Minister for Reconciliation and Civil...
‘Not yet ready for decision’: Ukraine and the Netherlands v. Russia’s (potential) impact on Ukraine’s compensation mechanism
EJIL: Talk!
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September 5, 2025
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR, Court)’s merits judgment in Ukraine and the Netherlands v. Russia (Ukraine-v.-Russia) prompted assessments (here; here; here; here). This post addresses one unexamined question: how the judgment has...
Sports on TV for Sept. 6 – 7
WTOP - District Columbia
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September 5, 2025
(All times Eastern) Schedule subject to change and/or blackouts Saturday, Sept. 6 AUSTRALIAN RULES FOOTBALL (MEN’S) 5:30 a.m. FS2 —… (All times Eastern) Schedule subject to change and/or blackouts Saturday, Sept. 6 AUSTRALIAN RULES FOOTBALL...
Tbilisi launches European Youth Card Program for young people
Georgia Online
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September 3, 2025
Tbilisi, Georgia: The Tbilisi City Hall has launched the Program “European Youth Card” for young people aged 18 to 30. The program means more than 25,000 discounts in 40 European countries and unites 9.3 million young people. The presentation of...
How Putin lost in the Caucasus and punished his minion for it
EurActiv
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September 5, 2025
Konstantin Eggert is a Russian-born journalist with DW, Germany’s international broadcaster. He is based in Vilnius and was previously editor-in-chief of the BBC Russian Service Moscow bureau. “Which side do I take today – Baku or Yerevan?” It is...
South Korea expresses ’concern’ over U.S. immigration raid at Hyundai’s Georgia plant
The Hindu
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September 5, 2025
The Hyundai Motor Group Metaplant America. File | Photo Credit: AP South Korea on Friday (September 5, 2025) expressed “concern and regret” over a major U.S. immigration raid at a sprawling Georgia site where South Korean auto company Hyundai...
Top stories in Azerbaijan, Armenia, and Georgia from 1-5 September, 2025
JAMnews
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September 5, 2025
● President Ilham Aliyev spoke at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Tianjin, China. “Azerbaijan is one of the transport and logistics hubs of Eurasia and intends to increase the capacity of its international seaport from 15 to...
Caucasus Auto boosts operation in Middle East with UAE office
Zawya
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UAE - Leading U.S. vehicle importer Caucasus Auto Import has officially launched its UAE headquarters in Sharjah, according to a press release. The expansion marks a milestone for the company as it brings its services to one of the world’s most...
Russian Activist Anton Chechin Sentenced to 8.5 Years on Drug Charges in Tbilisi Court
The Messenger
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By Liza Mchedlidze Wednesday, September 3, 2025 Russian activist Anton Chechin was sentenced to eight years and six months in prison on September 2 after Tbilisi City Court found him guilty of possessing a large quantity of narcotics, in what his...
Georgian Dream Presents Report Labeling Rose Revolution a Coup, Calls to Ban UNM
The Messenger
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By Liza Mchedlidze Wednesday, September 3, 2025 Georgian Dream MP Tea Tsulukiani on September 2 presented a 470-page report by the ruling party's parliamentary investigative commission, which portrays the 2003 Rose Revolution as "a coup" and...
Soviet symbolism returns to Russian diplomacy
The Interpreter
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September 5, 2025
Sergei Lavrov is no stranger to making a statement. But not in a fashion sense. So, when Russia’s long-serving Foreign Minister wore a pullover jumper emblazoned with the USSR logo “CCCP” when arriving for so-called peace talks in Alaska last...
Archi Conquered the Domestic Market. Now It’s Putting Georgian Real Estate on the Global Map
Caucasus Business Week
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When a developer from Tbilisi starts appearing in conversations about Miami’s coastline, it’s a signal for more than just another run-of-the-mill high-rise. Archi, one of Georgia’s most well-known development companies, is stepping onto the...