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 ...

There had been some speculation that the incumbent Georgian president, Salome Zurabishvili, would refuse to leave the presidential palace even after her successor was inaugurated. In the end, she left ...

"Even though Georgia had closer contacts with the EU and U.S., they didn't solve the country's main problem, which was security — the permanent threat of Russia," Kakachia said. "The Russian ...