Georgia Straddles between NATO, Russia and Reality After Georgia’s 2012 Parliamentary Elections, the topic of NATO membership is again in focus, as many are currently questioning the new government’s perspective on integration into the alliance and other Euro-Atlantic structures at large.

Khatuna Gogaladze: application of principles of sustainable development is a guarantee of healthy environment in line with long-term economic development of the country Lack of political will in past resulted in accumulation of a number of unsolved environmental problems. Khatuna Gogaladze, Georgia’s Minister of Environment and Natural Resources Protection tells the Georgian Times about the main environmental problems facing the country and the ways they can be avoided and solved.

“Unfortunately, these will not be the last victims” On May 16, 2013 Georgia bid farewell to three more of its soldiers. Since 2004, when the first Georgians were sent there, twenty-two Georgian soldiers have been killed while serving in the ISAF mission in Afghanistan

2013 Georgian Presidential Election may turn out to be a Horse Race Giorgi Margvelashvili, First vice Prime Minister and Minister of Education and Science of Georgia, has been named by the ruling Georgian Dream coalition (GD) as its presidential candidate for the country’s upcoming elections to be held in October 2013.

Thousands of Protestors Disrupt Rally against Homophobia A parade marking the International Day against Homophobia and Transphobia – due to be held in Tbilisi was abandoned before it started when several thousand anti-gay activists, including Georgian Orthodox Church priests, took control of the street where the rally was to take place.

I am disappointed that this right of expression was violently blocked "You well know we consider the freedom of expression of every human being of paramount importance. This is exactly what Lady Ashton says today in her statement on the Day against Homophobia."

EU Ambassadors Dismayed by the Violence on Tbilisi Streets EU Ambassadors to Georgia were dismayed by the violence on the streets of Tbilisi yesterday. ‘Our sympathies are with the injured.