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‘Like living in a parallel universe’: Some fear the contested election in Georgia could lead to a political crisis 

Elections

The Republic of Georgia, located in the center of the Caucasus, and with Russia on its northern border, is a polarized nation. Over the weekend, Georgians went to the polls to vote in parliamentary elections. The result: a contested election that could plunge the country into a political crisis.

Zhemal Gamakharia, Chairman of Abkhazia’s Supreme Council, a regional-level parliament.

Georgian politicians from Russian-occupied Abkhazia run a ‘government-in-exile’

Leaders
Protesters wave a Georgian national and EU flags as they rally against a draft law

Georgia faces a rocky road to EU membership

Foreign policy
demonstrator holding the Ukraine flag around their body

Russians in Georgia help to evacuate Ukrainians  

Ukraine
Performers drink wine during a wine festival in Tbilisi, Georgia, Oct. 15, 2017.

World’s earliest evidence of grape wine-making discovered in country of Georgia

Culture
East Point mayor Teona Chikladze has come to symbolize a feminist movement in Georgia

Georgian feminists are beacons of light in a region darkening for women

Arts

Even as freedoms for women are constricting in neighboring Turkey and Russia, women in Tbilisi, Georgia are more free than ever, they say

"The Skeptic" illustration from Andrew North's The Big Draw: Selling the Soviet Past.

Take a tour of the ‘Home Depot of Soviet past’

Culture

In the former Soviet state of Georgia is a sprawling open-air hardware store called the Eliava. Vendors there sell building materials, tools and machinery — much of it from Soviet days and Russian-made.

The Kiwi Cafe in historic downtown, Tbilisi, Georgia

Sausage-wielding attackers raid vegan cafe in Tbilisi, Georgia

Lifestyle

It was no idle prank. The cafe’s owners say an ultranationalist neo-Nazi group was responsible.

Tbilisi’s “Guerrilla Garden” movement has been fighting to preserve the city’s green spaces that some say are under threat by private developers in cahoots with city officials.

Georgia’s ‘guerrilla gardeners’ defend a city park — and introduce people power

Global Politics

Georgians have been watching the power of grassroots groups in the Middle East — and recently in Ukraine — to bring down dictators. So they figure they can protect their urban green spaces, starting with one park.

Tbilisi’s “Guerrilla Garden” movement has been fighting to preserve the city’s green spaces that some say are under threat by private developers in cahoots with city officials.

Georgia’s ‘guerrilla gardeners’ defend a city park — and introduce people power

Global Politics

Georgians have been watching the power of grassroots groups in the Middle East — and recently in Ukraine — to bring down dictators. So they figure they can protect their urban green spaces, starting with one park.