Tbilisi, Georgia News

Thousands of anti-gay protestors organized by the Georgian Orthodox Church took over central Tbilisi to halt a small rally of LGBT activists on May 17, International Day Against Homophobia.

The arrest of Georgia's former Prime Minister Vano Merabishvili is a clear attempt to crush the allies of President Mikheil Saakashvili, one analyst says.

ZUGDIDI, Georgia -- For residents of the Gali district, the southeastern-most tip of Georgia's breakaway region of Abkhazia, going to school, getting to a hospital, or collecting a pension payment can be a very tricky endeavor.

The United States condemns the May 17th attack on a peaceful march to mark the international day against homophobia in Tbilisi, Georgia, Acting Deputy Spokesperson of the U.S. State Department, Patrick Ventrell said at a daily press briefing.

Then-Prime Minister Ivane Merabishvili campaigned for President Mikheil Saakashvili's United National Movement ahead of Georgia's parliamentary elections in October 2012.

Georgian Orthodox Christian activists shout antigay slogan, before clashes with gay rights activists on the International Day Against Homophobia in Tbilisi on May 17 TBILISI -- Four men have been arrested in Georgia in connection with the violence last week that disrupted a planned gay rights demonstration in Tbilisi.

The EU Delegation to Georgia issued a statement on the May 17 events in Tbilisi.

Uneasy neighbors: An Armenian flag provides the backdrop for a bust to the late Azerbaijani President Heydar Aliyev in downtown Tbilisi.

The issues of legislative regulation of covert surveillance and recording, obtaining information from communication channels and computer systems, secret video and audio recordings, film and photography used in search operations, as well as the problems of observing the rule of law in this area will be discussed at the joint meeting of two ... (more)

In the U.S. election on November 6, while most attention was focused on the presidential race, the western states of Colorado and Washington made their own history by becoming the first to legalize marijuana for recreational use.

On Friday, a crowd of thousands of people consisting of clerics and parishioners dispersed the police and the action of dozens of LGBT advocates on Rustaveli Avenue, timed to coincide with the International Day against Homophobia and Transphobia.

Tbilisi City Court sentenced former General Director of JSC "Georgian Railways" Irakli Ezugbaia in absentia to pre-trial detention for a period of two months as a temporary measure of restriction.

On May 13-17, the average price on AZERI LT, exported from Azerbaijan via the Ceyhan, Batumi and Supsa ports to Italian Augusta port, was about $105.81 per barrel or $1.1 less compared to the previous week.

Unrest: Policemen try to stop an Orthodox Christian activist during clashes at rally in Tbilisi on Friday.

A crowd attacks a minibus carrying gay rights activists during an International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia rally in Tbilisi, Georgia.

Cochairmen of the Geneva consultations on security and stability in the South Caucasus are discussing in Tskhinvali the agenda of negotiations due in late June with South Ossetian presidential envoy Murat Jioyev and South Ossetian delegation members, an Interfax correspondent reported.

The Pace Group company together with the companies "APM Terminals - Poti" and "Agricom" will open a wheat processing terminal in the Poti port on Friday.

An attempt to hold a march against homophobia in the Georgian Tbilisi ended in rioting as hostile protesters attacked participants and police lines crumbled.

One quarter of homosexuals surveyed by the EU's Agency for Fundamental Rights have recently been attacked or threatened.

Policemen try to stop an Orthodox Christian activist during clashes at an International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia rally in Tbilisi, May 17, 2013.