Magazine Articles



EUROPE BRIEFING
The Vatican has recently been seeking to explain why certain of its flock shouldn't be in jail. But the Orthodox Church in Georgia is inviting prisoners to make the opposite journey.



EXPO
As the helicopter flies low along the shoreline of the Black Sea city of Batumi, Mikheil Saakashvili points out a row of new buildings, gesticulating wildly and shouting proud descriptions of each one over the roaring engines.



Q&A
After last summer's disastrous war against Russia, Georgia's opposition leaders felt that patriotism should come before any attack on their president, Mikheil Saakashvili.



AFFAIRS REPORT
During the conflict in South Ossetia, western media were given free access by the Georgian government, while on the Russian side, foreign journalists were being either arrested or herded around by the military.



EUROPE BRIEFING
Leaders anxious to disperse their revolting citizens - without actually killing them - have a new weapon in their armoury: LRADs or Long Range Acoustic Devices.



EUROPE BRIEFING
When Mikheil Saakashvili assumed Georgia's presidency he brought with him a young team, many in their late twenties.