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The Georgian Parliament Speaker signs into law a wide-ranging bill that bans gender transitioning and gender-affirming care, same-sex marriage and adoption, and depictions of LGBTQ+ people in media after the President refused to sign it, which chief European Union diplomat Josep Borrell states could prevent the nation's accession to the EU.
2024-10-3

Georgian parliament members from the ruling Georgian Dream party fail to impeach President Salome Zourabichvili, securing only 86 of the required 100 votes, after the constitutional court ruled that Zourabichvili violated the constitution by advocating for Georgia's European Union membership during international trips without government approval.
2023-10-18

Volodymyr Zelenskyy requests Georgian ambassador Gela Dumbadze to return home within 48 hours to negotiate imprisoned former Georgian president and Ukrainian citizen Mikheil Saakashvili's transfer to a Ukrainian clinic due to Saakashvili's declining health.
2023-07-3

Georgia's ruling party announces that it will withdraw a controversial bill concerning foreign agents which had prompted days of protests across the country.
2023-03-9

Through the mediation efforts of Georgia and the United States, Azerbaijan agrees to release 15 Armenian citizens currently being held in captivity. In exchange, Armenia provides Azerbaijan with maps of 97,000 anti-tank and anti-personnel mines in the Agdam District.
2021-06-12

The European Union formally grants Georgian citizens visa-free travel to its member states, with the exception of Ireland and the United Kingdom. The signed documents will be published on March 8, and officially enter into force on March 28.
2017-03-1

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry arrives in Kiev, Ukraine, where he is expected to discuss ways of ending the conflict in the east of the country. The visit, along with his visit to Georgia yesterday, comes ahead of the NATO summit in Warsaw that will take place tomorrow.
2016-07-7

Sergei Bagapsh, the President of the breakaway Georgian province of Abkhazia, dies from complications of lung surgery in Moscow.
2011-05-29

Georgian police arrest 13 people allegedly belonging to a Russian spy network.
2010-11-5

The body of fallen luger Nodar Kumaritashvili returns to his hometown of Bakuriani, Georgia, for burial.
2010-02-17