Teatime in Tbilisi: Georgia’s Soviet-era plantations brew up a renaissance
Georgia’s tea industry collapsed alongside the Soviet Union but is now reaching a luxury market
June 2026
Dry Leaf review – three-hour amble around the football pitches of Georgia in search of a daughter
Here in Georgia our festivals are full, but our poets are in prison – and now we feel abandoned by Europe
Archil Kikodze
May 2026
Kvara d’Or? Tbilisi dreaming of more glory for ‘special’ Kvaratskhelia
In the streets where he grew up the PSG winger’s success is an inspiration and a continual source of pride
Trump Tower in Georgia to be built on land part-owned by son of US sanctions-hit leader
Links between Trump Organization and Ivanishvili family for Tbilisi skyscraper raise new conflict of interest concerns
Royal Opera House calls for release of Georgian bass singer jailed over democracy protests
Casting director urges Keir Starmer to intervene in case of Paata Burchuladze, 71, jailed for seven years after singing at anti-regime demonstrations
March 2026
Blueberry Dreams review – a gentle, humorous portrait of a Georgian family who start a fruit farm
War is always in the background, but the focus is on a kindly father, his long-suffering wife and young sons struggling to make a profit from working the land
February 2026
‘A permanent civil war in the body’: how fighting cancer helped an artist understand his Soviet youth
A rare lymphoma diagnosis meant Giorgi Gagoshidze had to abandon a film project on the economic factors behind the USSR’s collapse – until he found new meaning in medical terminology
November 2025
EU could admit new members by 2030, says its foreign policy chief
'Happy and relieved': pregnant teenager Bella Culley freed from Georgian prison – video
Pregnant UK teenager Bella May Culley freed from Georgian jail
Pregnant British teen accused of drug-smuggling moved to baby unit in Georgian prison
October 2025
Stop calling Georgia ‘the former Soviet republic’
British teen on Georgia drug charges could give birth in prison after plea bargain
Georgia’s prime minister announces crackdown on dissent after Tbilisi protests
Jailed Georgian politicians allege links between ruling party and Iran in letter to UK
September 2025
From my prison cell in Georgia, I implore Europe not to abandon us to Russia
Mzia Amaglobeli
Owner of Georgian broadcaster called country’s ‘propaganda megaphone’ is based in London
‘Tinder Swindler’ Shimon Hayut arrested in Georgia on Interpol request
Limitation review – bloodshed and chaos of Georgia’s coup d’etat comes alive from the archive