I was surprised the moment he came to pick us up in the western Georgian town of Zugdidi. I had thought he would be young, like most of Mikheil Saakashvili's youthful administration. Shota Utiashvili ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. One evening in December 1991, as Georgia was sliding into civil war and its capital filled with refugees, I went to ...

TBILISI, Georgia — Towering over Georgia’s capital city is a 65-foot aluminum statue that stands as a symbol for the inhabitants below. In one hand, the “Mother of Georgia” holds a cup of wine to ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The feverish heat of the past few months has finally softened in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. Along the Mtkvari ...

When Natalya Bedina walks outside her home in Tbilisi’s old town these days, she covers her head with a hoodie and a facemask. “I have a clearly Russian face and I don’t want people to look at me ...

Koshini’s rooftop bar serves up local wine and a stunning view of Tbilisi, bathed, one recent evening, in a rosy sunset. The clientele sipping cocktails are not hip young locals, but Russians. “People ...

Nata Peradze is largely unknown outside of her native Georgia. But she is rapidly becoming one of Tbilisi's best-known figures as she leads a protest movement to stop rampant urban development from ...

TBILISI -- Speaking to journalists, architects, and art lovers last week in a mixture of Georgian and English, Shalva Breus painted a wistful portrait. A Georgian-born billionaire businessman from ...