The announcement that American real estate mogul Donald Trump intends to build in Tbilisi has many Georgians hoping that the country’s foreign-investment woes are over.
On September 22, Trump signed a letter of intent with the Silk Road Group, a multinational development company founded by Georgians, covering the construction of a residential building in Tbilisi.
There has always been a bit of showman in Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili’s governing style. Now the Georgian president is pushing for an all-out merger between entertainment and politics with the aim of promoting tourism to Georgia.
First graders prepare for the first day of school at School 51 in downtown Tbilisi, Georgia. According to the Georgian Ministry of Education and Science, public schools will start on Sept. 15 from now on, a change from previous years when the first day of school was Sept. 1 or later, depending on the ministry's decision.
Molly Corso is a freelance photojournalist based in Tbilisi.
As Georgia’s school year gets underway, the country’s polyglot president is betting a thousand native English speakers can jump start an ambitious new policy to make English Georgia’s second language.
In a large grassy field a few kilometers from Georgia’s Black Sea port of Poti lies a Free Industrial Zone that Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili in 2008 predicted would help transform Georgia into the “Dubai or Singapore” of the Caucasus. Now, more than two years later, the Poti zone is under pressure to meet those expectations.
A lack of reliable data on Georgian migration trends could have a wide-ranging impact on Tbilisi’s ability to adapt government policies to changing population patterns, demographic and migration specialists say.
Two years after Georgia’s August 2008 war with Russia, the end of an international food assistance program could put thousands of families displaced by the conflict at risk for hunger, two international aid organizations say.
Meggi, 6, an internally displace person (IDP) from Eredvi, Georgia, paints her nails in her family's one room at the Isani Shelter in Tbilisi. The family took shelter at the abandoned Isani Military Hospital in August 2008, when they escaped from the fighting in their village during the conflict over South Ossetia. Eredvi is no longer under Georgian control.
Meggi and her family have lived at the shelter since fleeing the fighting, waiting on the government to issue them the $10,000 housing allowance they were promised. On Aug. 5, Amnesty International issued a report on IDPs in Georgia, calling on the government to do more to provide suitable housing, employment and security for all the IDPs displaced during the country's many conflicts during the past two decades.
Molly Corso is a freelance photojournalist based in Tbilisi.
Changes to Georgia’s constitution that could pave the way for President Mikheil Saakashvili to stay in power are rekindling fears that the country’s ruling party is abusing its hold on Georgian political life.
An outsourcing deal designed to enhance the reach of a government-run Russian-language television channel in Georgia instead threatens to bog down the station in controversy.
