Georgia

Accusing the U.S. ambassador of blackmail is just the start.

The European Union has a serious test ahead in keeping Tbilisi on track.

Official candidacy for the bloc is unlikely, but even a lesser accession status would send a powerful signal.

But with power increasingly centralized in the Kremlin, don’t look for Moscow’s empire to fracture anytime soon.

The war in Ukraine is prompting countries from Kazakhstan to Moldova to reexamine their colonial past and seek diplomatic allies beyond the Kremlin.

Georgia’s ruling party, if not its populace, wants to appease the Kremlin. Georgia’s president does not.

Russia is not the only country irresponsibly offering diplomatic stamps of approval.

False claims of military withdrawal followed by recognition of breakaway regions is a tried and tested Kremlin strategy.

Putin hasn’t set his sights on just Ukraine. Further destabilization of Georgia is next on his agenda.

Former President Mikheil Saakashvili’s hunger strike is a test case for Georgia’s trembling democracy.

Mikheil Saakashvili has forced himself back on the political stage—despite the danger.

Dozens of people are dying a day, and the country’s future may be on the line.

The ruling Georgian Dream party is taking Tbilisi into Moscow’s orbit while eroding democratic institutions.

LGBT rights are at the center of the struggle over Georgia’s Western leanings.

A six-month stalemate over vote-rigging accusations has been partially, but messily, resolved.

Russia’s recent aggression along its border shows why Kyiv needs decisive action from the alliance.

A police raid on the opposition headquarters is a watershed moment for the region’s only democracy.

In response, pro-Trump protesters storm the Capitol, forcing Congress into recess.

Pro-democracy groups and foreign governments should be calling out Donald Trump’s attack on the country’s core democratic institutions. They aren’t.