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FILE - Opposition leader Zurab Japaridze, center, accused of failing to fulfill the demands of the Georgian parliament's temporary investigative commission probing the activities of the 2003-2012 government and its officials, attends a court hearing in Tbilisi, Georgia, Thursday, May 22, 2025. (Irakli Gedenidze/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Georgia jails top opposition figures as authorities ramp up crackdown

By Sophiko Megrelidze - Associated Press

Demonstrators use firecrackers against police during a rally against the government's decision to suspend negotiations on joining the European Union for four years, outside the parliament's building in Tbilisi, Georgia, early Sunday, Dec. 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Zurab Tsertsvadze)

Over 40 people hospitalized in Georgia during protests over suspension of EU talks

By Sophiko Megrelidze - Associated Press

Police try to detain a protester in a street during a rally against the results of the parliamentary elections amid allegations that the vote was rigged in Tbilisi, Georgia, Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Zurab Tsertsvadze)

Police in Georgia’s capital break up a tent camp set up by protesters demanding a new election

By Sophiko Megrelidze - Associated Press

In this photo released by Georgian Prime Minister Press Office on Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2024, Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze, left, and Prime Minister of Hungary Viktor Orban walk during their meeting in Tbilisi, Georgia. (Georgian Prime Minister Press Office via AP)

Hungary’s Orban boosts Georgia’s ruling party over election despite an outcry the vote was rigged

By Emma Burrows - Associated Press

In this photo taken from video, Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili, left, speaks to the media as speaks to the media as and Nana Malashkhia, who leads the Coalition for Change parliament list, right, stands near, after the parliamentary election in Tbilisi, Georgia, on Sunday, Oct. 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Kostya Manenkov)

Georgian president calls for protests over disputed election results

By Emma Burrows - Associated Press

Billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili, leader of the created by him the Georgian Dream party greets demonstrators during a rally in Tbilisi, Georgia, on April 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Shakh Aivazov, File)

Georgia’s crucial vote was marred by intimidation, European monitors say

By Emma Burrows - Associated Press

FILE - Police block Georgian opponents of gay rights as they try to interfere a pride party in Tbilisi, Georgia, Saturday, July 8, 2023. (AP Photo/Zurab Tsertsvadze, File)

Georgian parliament approves anti-LGBTQ legislation, echoing measures in Russia

Associated Press

Georgian opposition activists with Georgian and Ukrainian national flags attend a protest against the resumption of air links with Russia standing behind a police line at the International Airport outside Tbilisi, Georgia, Friday, May 19, 2023. Direct flights resumed on Friday between Russia and Georgia amid protests and sharp criticism from the South Caucasus nation's president, just over a week after the Kremlin unexpectedly lifted a four-year-old ban despite rocky relations. (AP Photo/Shakh Aivazov)

Russia-Georgia flights resume despite protests, strained ties

Associated Press

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg and Georgian Prime Minister Mamuka Bakhtadze, right, meet with Georgian soldiers during multinational military exercises NATO - Georgia Exercise 2019, at the NATO-Georgia Joint Training and Evaluation Center in Krtsanisi, just outside Tbilisi, Georgia, Monday, March 25, 2019. (AP Photo/Shakh Aivazov)** FILE **

Mamuka Bakhtadze, Georgia’s prime minister, resigns

Associated Press

FILE - In this file photo taken on Saturday, June 22, 2019 a group of Russian tourists listen to a guide in The Old Town of Tbilisi, Georgia. The last direct flight between Russia and Georgia landed in Moscow Sunday evening July 7, 2019, putting into effect Russia's ban on direct flights between Russia and Georgia.(AP Photo/Shakh Aivazov, File)

Kremlin ban halts direct flights between Russia and Georgia

By SOPHIKO MEGRELIDZE - Associated Press

Opposition demonstrators help a wounded man during a protest at Georgian Parliament to call for the resignation of the speaker of the Georgian Parliament in Tbilisi, Georgia, Friday, June 21, 2019. Police have fired a volley of tear gas at a massive throng of protesters outside the Georgian national parliament, who are trying to storm the building and are demanding the government's resignation.(AP Photo/Zurab Tsertsvadze)

The Latest: Putin suspends flying Russians to Georgia

Associated Press

Carlsen-Bu after 34. Ne1.

Top seeds continue to fall in FIDE’s World Cup chess cage matches

By David R. Sands - The Washington Times

A volunteer throws a bucket to another volunteer as they clear the mud at a house after Sunday's flooding, in Tbilisi, Georgia, Monday, June 15, 2015. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

All lions, tigers accounted for in Georgia zoo flooding

Associated Press

A rhinoceros escaped from a flooded zoo walks inside the zoo in Tbilisi, Georgia, Sunday, June 14, 2015. Severe flooding in the Georgian capital left at least 12 people dead Sunday and triggered a big-game hunt across the city for lions, tigers, a hippopotamus and other dangerous animals that escaped from Tbilisi's ravaged zoo. (AP Photo/Tinatin Kiguradze)

Search on for people, zoo animals missing in Georgia flood

By Misha Dzhinddzhikhashvili - Associated Press

Jobava-Mamedyarov after 21. Red1.

DAVID R. SANDS: The joys of kibitzing by computer in chess

By David R. Sands - The Washington Times

** FILE ** In this Tuesday, May 12, 2009, file photo, Eduard Shevardnadze, former Georgian president and ex-Soviet foreign minister, speaks to The Associated Press in Tbilisi, Georgia. Shevardnadze died Monday, July 7, 2014, at the age of 86, his spokeswoman said. (AP Photo/Shakh Aivazov, file)

Shevardnadze, ex-Georgian president, dies at 86

By Misha Dzhindzhikhashviili - Associated Press