The protests in Georgia have highlighted the country's complex, fraught relationship with its much larger neighbor to the north, Russia. Russia invaded Georgia in 2008 and it continues to occupy ...

Georgia defies EU and 'returns to past' with Russia-style law that sparked mass protests A brawl broke out this week over the bill in the Georgia Parliament, with rival lawmakers shoving each other.

Many Georgians feel deep hostility toward Russia, which invaded Georgia in 2008 and occupies about 20% of its internationally recognized territory – about the same proportion it occupies in Ukraine.

The foreign minister of Russia said Thursday that Georgia could “forget about” getting back its two breakaway provinces, and the former Soviet republic remained on edge as Russia sent tank ...

As the United States and its NATO allies are focused on Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine, Russia’s efforts to bring another country into its orbit has gone largely unnoticed. Like many countries that were once part of the Soviet Union, Georgia has a population that is largely pro-EU and pro-NATO, an orientation that has only been strengthened in the years since Moscow’s ...

Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said in 2011 that had Russia not invaded Georgia in 2008, NATO would have expanded into Georgia. The 2008 conflict centered on South Ossetia and Abkhazia ...

Russia invaded Georgia exactly 10 years ago. Here's how Trump could prevent another war. On the tenth anniversary of the Russo-Georgian War, here's how the Trump administration could prevent a ...

So far this year, almost 70 percent of Georgia’s production, worth more than $214 million, has been exported to Russia, according to Georgian state statistics, an increase of more than 54 ...

Russia and Georgia, meanwhile, are still not on speaking terms. Georgian wine, once a great delicacy here, is still banned in Russia; refugee camps still stretch to the horizon in patches of ...