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The scale of the judicial picks, and lingering questions surrounding their qualifications, feed fears about a dangerous consolidation of power in the hands of billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili and his Georgian Dream party.
A Georgian physician who was arrested by Russian border guards in Georgia's breakaway region of South Ossetia in November has gone on trial for "illegally crossing the border" to treat a patient.
Police in Tbilisi have detained 12 protesters, including the leader of opposition New Georgia party, Giorgi Vashadze, after they tried to block the entrance to the parliament building.
Dozens of opposition activists have gathered in the Georgian capital, Tbilisi, but were unable to rally in front of the parliament building as planned after police cordoned off the site.
Riot police in the Georgian capital, Tbilisi, used water cannons to disperse protesters outside the country's parliament on November 26. It was the latest in a series of confrontations between the government and opposition over the country's electoral system.
Several thousand people gathered in the center of the Georgian capital, Tbilisi, after the ruling party ruled out electoral reforms despite opposition protests. Supporters of opposition groups marched from Tbilisi's Republic Square to the parliament building on November 25, blocking traffic in the city's main thoroughfare.
After issuing a 30-minute ultimatum before dawn, Georgian police used water cannons to disperse protesters near parliament and detained several activists, hours after thousands assembled in the capital demanding electoral reforms.
A Georgian court has sentenced 10 opposition demonstrators to between four to 13 days in prison on charges of disobeying law enforcement officers during an anti-government protest earlier this week.
Georgian police used water cannons to disperse protesters gathered outside the parliament building in Tbilisi. The crowd was staging a fourth day of protest demanding early elections after lawmakers rejected changes to Georgia's electoral system.
A Tbilisi court will try 37 people who were detained while protesting at Georgia’s parliament on charges of disobeying police and for hooliganism, their lawyer, Georgi Oniani, has said.
Thousands of Georgians protested on November 17 outside the parliament in Tbilisi after it refused to accelerate an electoral reform. The protesters joined opposition supporters who pitched tents to block entry to the parliament on November 14.
Thousands of Georgians have jammed the streets outside parliament as demonstrators voiced anger over lawmakers' rejection of a new electoral reform measure.
Members of Georgia's parliament blasted sirens at their rivals in a show of opposition after the chamber failed to pass a constitutional amendment on a transition to a proportional electoral system. Outside the parliament, there were scuffles with police as demonstrators vented their anger over the outcome of the vote.
Georgian lawmakers have rejected a constitutional amendment on the transition to a proportional electoral system that was demanded by protesters this summer.
Several hundred far-right activists and Orthodox Church members clashed with police in the Georgian capital on November 8 as they tried to block the premier of a Swedish-Georgian gay-themed film "And Then We Danced" amid a heavy security measures. (RFE/RL)
Several hundred far-right activists clashed with police in the Georgian capital, Tbilisi, as they tried to block the premiere of a critically acclaimed Swedish-Georgian gay-themed film which premiered amid a heavy police presence.
Two Georgian television stations, Imedi and Maestro, and thousands of websites have been knocked out, in what was thought to be a wide-scale cyberattack.
Georgia has extradited a Russian citizen, Yaroslav Sumbayev, wanted for his alleged involvement in the killing of a top economic crimes investigator in the Moscow region.
A meeting of Georgia's Legal Issues Committee turned into chaos after a female lawmaker meted out her own justice, slapping a colleague in the face after he made comments she found insulting.
Thousands of people gathered in the center of the Georgia's capital, Tbilisi, to protest against the government and ruling Georgian Dream party on September 20, three months after the violent dispersal of a rally against Russian influence. The protesters blocked traffic in Rustaveli Avenue, the city’s main thoroughfare, showing red cards to Georgian Dream leader Bidzina Ivanishvili, a billionaire businessman and former prime minister whom critics accuse of ruling the country from behind the scenes.
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