Turkey's defense ministry said a Turkish military cargo plane crashed in Georgia near the border with Azerbaijan on November 11. The ministry said on X that the C-130 plane had taken off from Azerbaijan and was on its way back to Turkey. It was not clear how many crew members were on board and the cause was under investigation.
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The Turkish Defense Ministry said a military cargo plane flying back to Turkey from Azerbaijan has crashed near the border just inside Georgian territory.
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The European Commission's annual enlargement report appears to show the EU's executive is serious about adding new members by the time its five-year mandate ends in late 2029. And it has identified four candidates for that purpose: Albania, Moldova, Montenegro, and Ukraine.
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Just two days after the European Union slammed Georgia for backsliding on democratic reforms, the country's Prosecutor-General’s Office opened a series of criminal cases against leading opposition politicians.
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Georgia’s government has reacted angrily to a critical assessment from the European Union over the country’s backsliding on democratic reforms on the way to joining the bloc, accusing Brussels of interfering in domestic affairs.
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The European Commission has issued a damning assessment of Georgia's progress toward joining the European Union, accusing it of "serious democratic backsliding" that has left the Caucasus nation as a candidate for membership "in name only."
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The European Union's annual enlargement report will slam Georgia for its backsliding on democratic policies, while generally giving a positive review to Albania, Moldova, Montenegro and Ukraine on their progress toward membership, a copy of the report, seen by RFE/RL, shows.
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Bella Culley, a 19-year-old British citizen who is eight months pregnant and accused by Georgian officials of drug smuggling, was released from the Tbilisi City Court on November 3 after reaching a plea bargain with prosecutors.
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Georgia's ruling party will ask the Constitutional Court to outlaw the three largest opposition parties, which are all strongly pro-Western, a senior member of the ruling Georgian Dream party said on October 28.
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Opponents of Georgia's ruling party protested in Tbilisi on October 26, marking one year since parliamentary elections that international monitors said were seriously flawed. The Georgian Dream party's decision to halt EU accession talks soon after the election set off a movement of nightly protests that has continued uninterrupted for 333 days.
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Thousands of Iranian companies are registered to a handful of Georgian addresses -- including 700 at one Tbilisi building -- raising questions about sanctions evasion and state contracting.
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The 2025 Sakharov Prize has been awarded to a pair of journalists -- the Polish-Belarusian Andrzej Poczobut and Georgian Mzia Amaglobeli -- both of whom are currently serving time in jail for charges related to their work reporting on democracy and civil society.
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