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.

Natural gas production at the major Shah Deniz gas field was 10 billion standard cubic metres (bcm) in the first half, up from around 9.4 bcm in the same period last year.

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.