What began as a story about a quaint Georgian restaurant in the Czech spa town of Karlovy Vary reveals a tangled nexus of shadowy Russian underworld figures, Kremlin-backed foundations, and covert ...

Companies owned by people with alleged ties to the Russian criminal underworld were registered at Asmat Shanava’s restaurant. Leaked emails also indicate she helped facilitate a payment for a ...

The debt on a prominent Midtown Atlanta hotel has been transferred to special servicing — where troubled loans go to be worked out — as its owner seeks an extension. The $37.9M CMBS loan tied ...

At Saqartvelo in Van Nuys, restaurant critic Merrill Shindler says the food is a rare find in SoCal — great Georgian cuisine served to a small room of diners who know their tkemali from their ...

Georgian opposition figure Giorgi Vashadze jailed in widening crackdown The sentence sees most opposition leaders behind bars as the ruling Georgian Dream squeezes critics and rivals.

Georgia has jailed four key opposition figures within days as part of a monthslong crackdown on dissent that followed a disputed election last October. Nearly all leaders of Georgia’s pro-Western ...