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Tata Shoshiashvili

Before joining OC Media as a reporter, Tata worked as a journalist in Georgian newspaper Resonance for over 2 years. She is interested in politics, and especially everything related to the North Caucasus. Writing is Tata’s outlet to relax and she believes she has found her dream profession in journalism.

ICC prosecutor applies for arrest of South Ossetian officials over 2008 war

The Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in the Hague named three individuals, including an opposition presidential candidate.

Adjara head ‘lied on CV’, Ukrainian university says

The chair of the Government of Adjara did not say who started the Ukraine-Russia war and referred the journalist to ‘experts in the field’.

Escape from Odesa

Zhanna Baghatelia and her daughters only managed to escape to Georgia through the repeated kindness of strangers. 

Voice | ‘Why I burnt my Russian internal passport’

At a demonstration in the Georgian capital, Tbilisi, on 25 February, Anton Mikhalchuk, a citizen of Russia, set alight his Russian internal passport.

Georgian Prime Minister spreads COVID misinformation, again

Georgia’s Prime Minister has falsely claimed that booster shots don’t work.

Mikheil Saakashvili on new hunger strike 

This is the second time the former Georgian President has gone on hunger strike since his return to Georgia last autumn.

Georgia raises the spectre of 2008 following Donetsk and Luhansk recognition

Officials and opposition leaders in Georgia have widely condemned Russia’s decision to recognise the separatist Ukrainian regions.

Authorities ‘investigating’ footage of neo-Nazi attacks in Tbilisi 

Three videos claiming to show neo-Nazis beating up ‘anti-fascists’ in Georgia were posted to Facebook over the past three months.

One dead and eight injured in Tkibuli mine explosion 

Preliminary findings by the Labor Inspection Office found two violations of worker safety rules, including excess levels of methane gas.

TBC bank founder and Georgian opposition leader found guilty of fraud

Mamuka Khazaradze was convicted but spared jail along with two others over transactions carried out almost 12 years ago.