No, not the state. Although they did it too. No this time it's the country of Georgia. According to Al Jazeera they are changing the second official language of the country from Russian to English.

Eduard Shevardnadze was key to fighting back the linguistic challenge from Moscow in 1978 (AFP) Thirty years ago, thousands of angry Georgians took to the streets of Tbilisi in defense of their native ...

TBILISI (Reuters) - With Alexander Pushkin's framed visage on the wall and creased editions of fellow Russian literary giants on dusty shelves, Natela Chokhonelidze's office recalls a very different ...

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Was an 18th-century king of Georgia, Erekle II, a “traitor”? That was the recent claim of Levan Berdzenishvili, one of Georgia’s more liberal commentators. Berdzenishvili was revisiting a pivotal ...

Discontent is rising within Georgia's Armenian community, the country's largest ethnic minority, driven by complaints concerning the central government's language policy, as well as perceptions of ...

The Eastern European country of Georgia is preparing amendments to its film law whereby all films will have to be dubbed into Georgian. By Vladimir Kozlov, The Associated Press MOSCOW — The Eastern ...

Russian-speakers in the Caucasus, Europe, Russia, and beyond now have a new place to turn for news. The Georgia-based Kanal PIK ("Pervy Informatsionny Kavkazsky," or First Caucasus News) has made its ...