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Jailed ex-Georgian leader appears in court by video link, seeking urgent medical treatment

Mikheil Saakashvili, the jailed former president of Georgia, appeared in court via video link on Wednesday to show how much weight he had lost while incarcerated, as associates renewed calls for him to be freed for urgent medical treatment.

Reuters

Musicians fleeing Russia find a new audience in Georgia

Until September, Aleksei Antropov was playing double bass for the Russian Philharmonic orchestra in Moscow.

Reuters

Commentary: To Georgians, Ukraine represents freedom and the potential for EU membership

Upon my arrival in the capital city of Tbilisi, the impact that the war in Ukraine has had on the conscience of Georgians became immediately apparent. Throughout the city, the blue and yellow of the Ukrainian flag hang proudly along with the red crosses of the Georgian flag. The war…

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The Ukrainians using embroidery to stand up to Russia

How artists, volunteers and designers turned a Ukrainian folk blouse and craft into symbols of defiance.

Al Jazeera

Georgia's Saakashvili renews, then calls off hunger strike over court delays

Georgia's jailed ex-President Mikheil Saakashvili declared a new hunger strike then abandoned it within hours on Wednesday as he faced further delay in a legal bid to get medical treatment abroad.

Reuters

Fat dog turned into local landmark on Google Maps with glowing five star reviews

A stray dog has become a local landmark in Tbilisi, Georgia, after making a spot on the street her permanent home as she spends her days plodding up and down the road in search for snacks

Daily Mirror

Russians who fled draft in no hurry to return from Georgia

A month after Russia said it had ended a recruitment drive for its war in Ukraine, men who fled to neighbouring Georgia to avoid the draft say they are in no rush to return home.

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‘We fight propaganda with art’: the Georgian festival hitting back at Putin

In a giant former Coca-Cola factory, Georgian and Ukrainian artists united for Culture Week Tbilisi, a show of defiance and solidarity that captured the harrowing reality of life under siege

The Guardian - UK

From Russia with cash: Georgia booms as Russians flee Putin's war

As war chokes Europe, a small nation wedged beneath Russia is enjoying an unexpected economic boom.

Reuters

'I don't want to shoot anybody': war-averse Russians seek sanctuary in Georgia

Igor Tikhiy, a 49-year-old marketing professional, has a simple answer to the question of why he fled to Georgia last week, crossing the border in the dead of night on his bicycle.

Reuters

Russia’s military call-up is having major repercussions almost everywhere but the Ukrainian battlefield

TBILISI, Georgia — Less than three weeks ago, Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the call-up of 300,000 men to bolster army ranks decimated by battlefield routs in Ukraine. Now, in an extraordinary exodus, waves of fighting-age men have fled Russia in what appear to be roughly those same numbers.

Los Angeles Times

Georgia’s rebel wheat farmers fight against dependence on Russia

Georgia relies on Russian wheat but as the Ukraine war drags on, local farmers are strengthening the domestic market.

Al Jazeera

Ukraine war: I've just returned from Georgia where they are angry about the conflict and fear an invasion

Arriving in the middle of the night at my Tbilisi hotel recently for a research project, I was told that my reservation had been rescinded and the hotel was now fully booked. A huge busload of Russian men had arrived at the hotel before me and were willing to pay…

The Conversation

Russians flock to Georgia, again, as Putin escalates war

New waves of Russians have arrived in Georgia, desperate to avoid joining troops in Ukraine.

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Russians flee to Georgia after Putin's mobilisation order

Russian men are fleeing into neighbouring Georgia to avoid being called-up to fight in a war they do not agree with following Russian President Vladimir Putin's order to mobilise hundreds of thousands of reservists for the conflict in Ukraine.

The Guardian - UK

‘There were hundreds of us’: Navalny ex-staffer tells of being FSB informer

Former anti-corruption activist who has fled to Netherlands tells how Russian state infiltrated opposition

Daily Record

From Troon to Tbilisi: Ayrshire cousins conquer Mongol Rally in style as Nissan Micra 'turns heads' in Monte Carlo

Chris Johnston-Marr and Marc Tracey have conquered a journey round Europe and covered 20 countries in 28 days.

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Bangkok Post

Robbed ex-official stuck in Georgia

A retired Thai official who was mugged in Tbilisi last month and has not been allowed by the Georgian police to leave the Caucasus country is calling on Foreign Minister Don Pramudwinai to step in to help him return to Thailand as quickly as possible.

Al Jazeera

‘Before Bucha in Ukraine, there was Abkhazia in Georgia’

Thirty years after the war in Georgia’s breakaway territory of Abkhazia, victims are still waiting for justice.

Newcastle Herald

Beqa earns national call-up

NEWCASTLE Jets' player of the year Beqa Mikeltadze has capped a breakout first season in the A-League with a recall to the Georgian national team.

The Conversation

Russia’s aggression against Ukraine pits Georgians against government

It is commonplace these days to invoke the fears that Russia’s aggression against Ukraine has awoken in Eastern Europe. With the 2008 invasion still fresh in the minds, the Black Sea nation of Georgia is also bracing itself against the Russian bear.

Reuters

The underground networks of Russians helping Ukrainian refugees

Ukrainian refugees who reluctantly find themselves under Moscow’s rule are receiving help from an unlikely quarter: networks of Russian volunteers helping those displaced by the war to leave Russia.

Bangkok Post

Russians switch to homegrown social media amid Ukraine crackdown

TBILISI/BERLIN: When YouTube stopped users in Russia from monetising their clips following the invasion of Ukraine, George Kavanosyan, a Moscow-based environmentalist with 60,000 followers on the platform tried to switch to its local equivalent, RuTube.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Russia’s War Migrants Find Mixed Reception in Georgia

A few days after Russia invaded Ukraine, Dimitry, an IT worker from St.

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