Marilisa Lorusso | 6 May 2025

In recent months in Georgia, pressure on the media and information workers has turned into actual repression. A case in point is that of journalist Mzia Amaghlobeli, who has been in prison for over a hundred days on charges of assaulting a police officer

Tbilisi Marks Vardaton, Celebrating Poet of Many Tongues

On Sunday, 18 May, an annual festival dedicated to the 18th century ethnic Armenian troubadour and poet, Sayat Nova, real name Harutyun Sayatyan, was again held in Tbilisi’s Maiden in the city’s historic Old Town.

Easter in Tbilisi: a night of light, faith, and tradition

As midnight arrived in Tbilisi, Easter awoke in a glow of candles and prayer. This year, for a change, Georgian Orthodox and Armenian Apostolic Easter occurred on the same day, April 20, just as it did elsewhere in the world. Text and Photographs by Onnik James Krikorian

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