There has been no progress in re-uniting Georgia with either of its separatist regions, South Ossetia or Abkhazia.

Georgia’s economic recovery continued to gather pace as the country eased the majority of the restrictions it had imposed to curb the coronavirus pandemic.

The straw house home to David Chachanidze and Tina Samadashvili is reachable after a two-kilometre hike uphill from the village of Bakurtsikhe, amid the wine country of eastern Georgia’s Kakheti region.

Sporadic clashes and accusations between Azerbaijan and Armenia over their lingering border war have left a question as to whether anything will stop the smouldering conflict. 

Milli Mejlis MP Eldaniz Salimov was ordered locked up following a late-night brawl in a Caspian Sea resort town two hours north of Baku.