
A few days after the beginning of the August 2008 war with Russia, I found myself on an epic journey through Kvemo Kartli and the volcanic plateau of Samtkhe-Javakheti to Turkey.

No, nothing about the election here. Instead something about the Georgian retail gasoline market, which according to some is not so competitive.

The history of Georgian tea began in 1897 when Lao Cheng Zhao came from China to the imperial estate in the village of Chakvi.

In the last week's Khachapuri Index column in The Financial, we took a break from agriculture and focused instead on the energy sector of Georgia.

The large economies have each, in sequence, offered "models" that once seemed attractive to others but that eventually gave way to disillusionment. Small countries may have some answers.