Open Caucasus Media

1 week ago | oc-media.org | Nate Ostiller

Join the fight for free media in the Caucasus for as little as €5 and enjoy exclusive benefits from our team as a thank you. We may look back in the future at this time in June 2025 and say that a global conflict, perhaps something like World War III, had already begun. It certainly feels like that these days. Over the past week, a new war — between Israel and Iran — has erupted just neighbouring our region.

1 week ago | oc-media.org | Robin Fabbro

Join the fight for free media in the Caucasus for as little as €5 and enjoy exclusive benefits from our team as a thank you. Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze has announced that observers from the OSCE’s Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) will not be invited to observe local elections in October. Speaking to journalists on Wednesday, Kobakhidze said it was ‘not standard practice’ to invite the OSCE/ODIHR to observe local elections.

2 weeks ago | oc-media.org | Robin Fabbro

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has said his government is lobbying among EU states to revoke visa-free travel to the bloc for Georgian citizens. Tusk made the comments while speaking about immigration in an address to the Polish parliament on Wednesday, before winning a crucial vote of confidence in his government. ‘We are building the necessary majority to limit or suspend visa-free travel with Georgia, among others’, he said.

3 weeks ago | oc-media.org | Antonia Langford

Join the fight for free media in the Caucasus for as little as €5 and enjoy exclusive benefits from our team as a thank you. Become a memberDea Kulumbegashvili’s sophomore feature is a hypnotic but unflinching portrait of power, violence, pain and gender in rural Georgia. At the end of Dea Kulumbegashvili’s debut feature Beginning (2020), a man lies down on the parched earth and slowly disintegrates: ‘For dust you are, and to dust you shall return’.

3 weeks ago | oc-media.org | Robin Fabbro

Join the fight for free media in the Caucasus for as little as €5 and enjoy exclusive benefits from our team as a thank you. Become a memberSupport for the EU has seen a dramatic fall in Georgia over the past year, according to the latest Standard Eurobarometer survey from the European Commission. Asked their opinion on Georgia’s possible future membership in the EU, only 60% of respondents said it would be a good thing, down from 74% a year earlier.