Companies owned by people with alleged ties to the Russian criminal underworld were registered at Asmat Shanava’s restaurant.

On a gastronomical tour through the former Soviet republic, Gary Shteyngart learns that resistance comes in many flavors.

Time heals all wounds, it is said, and that certainly is the case in Russia. Moscow has unveiled a new statue of Joseph ...

As we continue our Georgian van life road trip we arrive in the city of Gori, The birth place of Joseph Stalin but time there didn't quite go according to plan. Trump already won court battle ...

1918-1921- Georgia is briefly an independent state after separating from the Russian Empire. 1921 – After the Red Army invasion, Georgia and Abkhazia are declared Soviet Socialist republics.

He was born on Dec. 21, 1879, in a humble cottage (now a shrine) in the tiny town of Gori in Georgia, an ancient province in transCaucasia. He was one of four children; the others died in infancy.

1801-1804 - Most of present-day Georgia becomes part of the Russian Empire. 1879 - History's best-known Georgian, future Soviet leader Iosif Dzhugashvili (Joseph Stalin), is born in the town of Gori.

An employee checking tickets complains that Gori’s Stalin statue was removed in 2010 when Mikheil Saakashvili was Georgia’s president, and a guide tells a group of Russian visitors that he ...

In a speech last month in Gori, Ivanishvili also broke a taboo in Georgian society. He said Georgia should apologize for the 2008 war with Russia, for which many Georgians blame Moscow.

Where and when was Stalin born? Josef Stalin was born as Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili in Gori, Georgia on 18 December 1878. Located in the mountainous Caucasus region between the Black and Caspian ...