In the mountains of Caucasus lies a wonderfully distinct language family called Kartvelian, or the South Caucasian language family. One particular language in this family, called Georgian, is ...

Nairi Yeritsyan, the head of the city council in the southern Georgian city of Akhalkalaki, doesn’t speak Georgian. It is not unusual here: More than 90 percent of the population is ethnic Armenian, ...

Schoolteachers in the southern Gali district of Abkhazia have long been accustomed to operating on a shoestring. For them, the free delivery of brand-new textbooks should be cause for elation. Unless, ...

The FINANCIAL — Russian has started becoming popular again, ever since the new government promised to restore economic, cultural and political relations with its previously-hostile neighbour. From the ...

Education was meant to be the means Georgia would achieve the civic integration of its ethnic minority communities. As Tamar Burduli discovered, there is still a long way to go. Georgians are proud of ...

Azerbaijanis living in Georgia should learn Georgian language, said President Salome Zourabichvili. “In order to be full-fledged Georgian citizens, the Azerbaijanis living here must know the state ...

TBILISI -- Russian-language schoolbooks are being given to schoolteachers in the breakaway region of Abkhazia, prompting protests from some ethnic Georgian parents and teachers that their children are ...

Popular singing has a highly valued place in Georgian culture. Polyphonic singing, in the Georgian language, is a secular tradition in a country whose language and culture have often been oppressed by ...

Language is often seen as one of the most formidable challenges to minority integration in Georgia. While the Law on State Language (2015) provides extensive guarantees for respecting national ...

On 28 March, the UK-Georgia Cyber Partnership (UKGCP) launched a Georgian language version of research shedding light on the experience and perception of cybercrime and online harms in Georgia. The ...