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The United States withdraws Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze's invitation to attend a summit of national leaders hosted by U.S. President Joe Biden during the ongoing United Nations General Assembly session, and refuses any further delegator meetings with Georgia, due to the "anti-democratic actions, disinformation, and negative rhetoric towards the U.S. and the West" resulting from Georgia's recently-passed foreign agents law.
2024-09-25

At least 17 people are killed and 18 others are missing in a landslide in Shovi, Georgia.
2023-08-5

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

Exiled Georgian politician Mikheil Saakashvili announces that he is back in Georgia despite threats by prime minister Irakli Garibashvili, who said that Saakashvili would be "immediately arrested and brought to prison" if he returned. Saakashvili, in his support for the United National Movement, concluded by saying that "I risked my life and freedom to be back". Saakashvili is arrested later in the day.
2021-10-1

A 27-year-old nurse dies in Akhaltsikhe, Georgia, from presumed anaphylactic shock following an Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine jab.
2021-03-19

Voters in Georgia elect Salome Zurabishvili as president. She will be the first woman elected to hold the position when she assumes office on 16 December 2018.
2018-11-29

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

Georgia welcomes the ICC's investigation into alleged war crimes committed during the 2008 South Ossetia war, which will be the first inquiry by the ICC into possible abuses by Moscow and-or Georgia.
2016-01-28

A senior Russian diplomat is gunned down in Sukhumi, the capital of Georgia's breakaway region of Abkhazia.
2013-09-9

Voters in South Ossetia, a breakaway region of Georgia, go to the polls for a presidential election and a referendum.
2011-11-13