The Latest Breaking News from Tbilisi

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.

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

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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.

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

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.

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.

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.