Georgia

Poetry and wine in the Georgian capital
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A person pouring red wine into a glass, with other filled glasses in the background, on a wooden table.
Out of Eden Walk
Out of Eden Walk: Raising a glass to global wine
7:39
woman in a blue suit waves and smiles
US drops sanctions against acting Venezuelan President Delcy Rodríguez
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49:25
Raising a glass to global wine
7:39
A Georgian oligarch’s dream
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Tbilisi bus passengers get surprise protest messages
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Demonstrators accuse police of brutality in Georgia
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Students lead protests in Georgia
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Protests escalate in Georgia
4:59
Georgia faces political crisis after disputed election
Full Episode
49:24
Contested election in Georgia could lead to a political crisis
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Elections
‘Like living in a parallel universe’: Some fear the contested election in Georgia could lead to a political crisis 
5:09
Georgians deciding whether to align with east or west
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Georgia’s famous Borjomi water inadvertently hit by Russia sanctions
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A promise to pass controversial law in Georgia
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Georgia rocked by major protests opposing foreign agent law
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Out of Eden Walk
Out of Eden Walk: Walking Tbilisi
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Inside Myanmars ‘demoralized’ army
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47:44
Walking Tbilisi
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Europe busts criminal ring that’s been stealing rare Russian books from European libraries
4:07
Protests in Tiblisi following foreign agent draft law approved by Georgia’s parliament
5:04
Cars queuing to cross the border into Kazakhstan at the Mariinsky border crossing, about (250 miles south of Chelyabinsk, Russia, Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2022.
Ukraine
Anti-war Russians who fled for safety now face deportation
For more than a century, water from mineral springs in the Georgian town of Borjomi has been bottled and sold throughout the former Soviet Union. To this day, Borjomi remains a well-known brand from Kyiv to Kazakhstan.
Ukraine
Georgia’s famous Borjomi water company takes a hit during Russia-Ukraine war
Zhemal Gamakharia, Chairman of Abkhazia’s Supreme Council, a regional-level parliament.
Leaders
Georgian politicians from Russian-occupied Abkhazia run a ‘government-in-exile’
Protesters wave a Georgian national and EU flags as they rally against a draft law
Foreign policy
Georgia faces a rocky road to EU membership
Linguist Thomas Wier and Udi activist Alexander Kavtaradze at a memorial to Zinobi Silikashvili, the founder of the village of Zinobiani, Georgia. The inscription includes both Caucasian Albanian (Udi) and Georgian script.
Language
Udi, a dying language with its own alphabet, sees a revival in this small Georgian town
Customers walk into the Dedaena Bar in Tbilisi past a QR code notice
Language
Georgia’s proxy war with Russia has linguistic ripple effects
Many of Tskaltubo's sanatoriums will soon be renovated and reopened to tourists once again through an initiative funded by the government and private investment.
Displacement
Longtime refugees in Georgia say goodbye to the Soviet-era sanatoriums they called home
Stalin refrigerator magnets for sale outside the Stalin Museum in Gori, Georgia
History
As Putin’s war in Ukraine continues, historians say it’s crucial to reflect on Stalin’s reign in the Soviet era
demonstrator holding the Ukraine flag around their body
Ukraine
Russians in Georgia help to evacuate Ukrainians  
Leticia Arcila, a 20-year-old voter in Atlanta, Georgia, said health care is her top priority in a presidential candidate.
Every 30 Seconds
In Georgia, a young Latina reluctantly casts her primary vote for Biden
Vladimir Putin walks between two rows of people clapping their hands and taking photos with their cell phones
Conflict & Justice
20 years of Putin in power: A timeline
A man in a crowd wearing a white T-shirt holds up a sign saying 'Russia get out of Georgia."
Conflict
NATO agreed Georgia would join. Why hasn’t it happened?
Performers drink wine during a wine festival in Tbilisi, Georgia, Oct. 15, 2017.
Culture
World’s earliest evidence of grape wine-making discovered in country of Georgia
East Point mayor Teona Chikladze has come to symbolize a feminist movement in Georgia
Arts
Georgian feminists are beacons of light in a region darkening for women
"The Skeptic" illustration from Andrew North's The Big Draw: Selling the Soviet Past.
Culture
Take a tour of the ‘Home Depot of Soviet past’
The Kiwi Cafe in historic downtown, Tbilisi, Georgia
Lifestyle
Sausage-wielding attackers raid vegan cafe in Tbilisi, Georgia
Heavy rainfall turned the Vere river flowing through Tbilisi, Georgia into a torrent that swept away dozens of buildings and cars, June 14, 2015. At least a dozen people died as a result of flooding and mudslides in the Georgian capital.
Conflict
Animals roam streets of Tbilisi after flooding kills 12 people and destroys city zoo
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Justice
What Ferguson has shown us about race relations in America
John Wurdeman, co-founder of Pheasant’s Tears winery in the eastern Georgian province of Kiziqi. He was born in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and became fascinated by Georgia after stumbling onto a CD of folk music from the country.
Food
How a CD in the state of Virginia led to a wine rebirth in the country of Georgia
Seydo, a Kurdish nomad, with his flock in southeastern Turkey
Culture
A journalist on a seven-year trek and a shepherd say goodbye to 12,000 years of human history
Former Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze speaking to reporters at the US Pentagon on Oct. 5, 2001.
Global Politics
For former Soviet foreign minister Eduard Shevardnadze, ending the Cold War was his greatest legacy
Former Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze speaking to reporters at the US Pentagon on Oct. 5, 2001.
Global Politics
For former Soviet foreign minister Eduard Shevardnadze, ending the Cold War was his greatest legacy
Members of a pro-Ukrainian militia in training.
Conflict & Justice
Pro-Ukraine militias are forming to counter the pro-Russia separatists
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.
Global Politics
Georgia’s ‘guerrilla gardeners’ defend a city park — and introduce people power
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.
Global Politics
Georgia’s ‘guerrilla gardeners’ defend a city park — and introduce people power
A group of Russia supporters outside the entrance to the Ukrainian naval headquarters in Sevastopol. They say they see Crimea's future with Russia, not Ukraine.
Conflict & Justice
Putin claims that ‘volunteers’ are surrounding Ukrainian bases in Crimea
The Soviet-era central government complex in Sukhumi was nearly destroyed during the destructive 1992-93 war of secession that killed more than 20,000 people and forced more than 200,000 ethnic Georgians from their homes.
Conflict & Justice
Abkhazians are missing out on Russia’s $51 billion Olympic party
"Mountain people" from the 1860s. These warriors held off the Russian empire for 47 years. Many were ethnically cleansed after the Russian conquest in 1864.
Conflict & Justice
Sochi has a long and difficult past, including a little-known genocide
Global Politics
VIDEO: As voters choose, eyes on Ohio, Georgia in Super Tuesday elections
Global Politics
Romney, Gingrich seem poised to be big winners on Super Tuesday
Israel blames Iran, Hezbollah for Monday attacks on its diplomats abroad
Overseas reaction to Obama missile defense plan
Global Politics
Condoleezza Rice interview
A new look at the Russian-Georgian conflict
NATO, the U.S. and the politics of command
The West responds to Russia
Russia ups the ante
The Russian view
Global Politics
U.S. diplomacy in Georgia