Soviet factory towns have turned out to be unworkable under a globalised market economy - but these cities continue to live. I traveled to Georgia's metal town of Rustavi to find out more. One legacy ...

Georgia’s Ministry of Environmental Protection plans stricter inspections and industrial upgrades to improve air quality in Rustavi, as part of ...

RUSTAVI, GeorgiaRUSTAVI, Georgia — Hundreds of demonstrators rallied Monday outside a prison where former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili has been held since his arrest after returning to the ...

Zurab “Girchi” Japaridze, one of the leaders of the Coalition for Change opposition party, has been released from Rustavi Prison ...

TBILISI -- Georgia’s Rustavi-2 television station has fired several prominent journalists and producers, raising concerns by some critics that a former opposition media outlet could be muzzled. Paata ...

Georgia's Rustavi Steel Works, a rusting monument to Soviet industrial might, has changed hands in a $27 million transaction that promises to fuel further controversy about President Mikheil ...

2003-11-26 04:00:00 PDT Rustavi, Georgia-- Two weeks ago, Maya Chebukhchyan traded her microwave oven for a bag of flour so she could bake bread for her two small children. By Tuesday afternoon, she ...

Georgian media landscape, “pluralist, but not yet independent, very polarized”, as Reporters Without Borders (RSF) puts it, was shaken up mid-July by the decision of the Strasbourg-based European ...

Europe's top human rights court has prolonged its suspension of an attempt by the government in Tbilisi to put the country's biggest independent television station under the control of an alleged ...

Georgia’s most-watched broadcaster, Rustavi 2 TV, which is locked in a court battle over ownership dispute, said on October 1 that new “government-orchestrated” move against the station is cutting off ...

Georgia's president has suggested that his country's democratic image and international reputation are at stake as a row rumbles on about the country's main opposition television channel. Rustavi 2 ...

Georgian opposition supporters of former president Mikheil Saakashvili hold Georgian and Ukrainian national flags during a rally in his support in front of the prison where former president is being ...