The Georgian government is afraid to use the word “crisis.” Why do they insist there is no crisis? Why do they seek and find the new words for naming something that is so simple, and lies on the surface?

Georgia’s Coast Guard is holding joint maritime exercises with NATO member state naval forces in the Black Sea, in a continuing move to integrate the ex-Soviet country with the Atlantic alliance’s security strategy.

Border closures and lockdowns have hit the increasingly tourism-dependent nation hard. In the absence of significant government support, the cost of the pandemic has become increasingly difficult to bear.