Georgia

Image for Georgia jails opposition figure who urged 'peaceful revolution' for 2-1/2 years
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Georgia jails opposition figure who urged 'peaceful revolution' for 2-1/2 years

TBILISI, May 21 (Reuters) - A court in Georgia sentenced a senior opposition figure to 2-1/2 years i...

21st May, 2026

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Georgia elects new patriarch of influential Orthodox Church

TBILISI, May 11 (Reuters) - Orthodox Christian bishops in Georgia elected a new patriarch, Shio III,...

11th May, 2026

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Georgia hands down long sentences to election-day protest organisers

By Lucy Papachristou May 7 (Reuters) - Georgia sentenced ten people, including a prominent opera sin...

7th May, 2026

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Orthodox Georgians bid final farewell to longstanding patriarch

By Lucy Papachristou TBILISI, March 22 (Reuters) - Large crowds of Orthodox Christians gathered in t...

22nd March, 2026

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Ilia II, patriarch who led Georgian Church out of the Soviet Union, dies at 93

By Lucy Papachristou March 17 (Reuters) - The spiritual leader of the Georgian Orthodox Church for j...

17th March, 2026