In the mountains of Caucasus lies a wonderfully distinct language family called Kartvelian, or the South Caucasian language family. One particular language in this family, called Georgian, is ...

Nairi Yeritsyan, the head of the city council in the southern Georgian city of Akhalkalaki, doesn’t speak Georgian. It is not unusual here: More than 90 percent of the population is ethnic Armenian, ...

Schoolteachers in the southern Gali district of Abkhazia have long been accustomed to operating on a shoestring. For them, the free delivery of brand-new textbooks should be cause for elation. Unless, ...

The FINANCIAL — Russian has started becoming popular again, ever since the new government promised to restore economic, cultural and political relations with its previously-hostile neighbour. From the ...

Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili said today the Georgian Government is taking steps to preserve and popularize the Abkhaz language, “facing a serious threat of disappearance” in light of ...

TBILISI -- Russian-language schoolbooks are being given to schoolteachers in the breakaway region of Abkhazia, prompting protests from some ethnic Georgian parents and teachers that their children are ...

TBILISI, March 20, 2009 (RFE/RL) -- Schoolteachers in the southern Gali district of Abkhazia have long been accustomed to operating on a shoestring. For them, the free delivery of brand-new textbooks ...