EditorialProtesters preparing signs and stickers ahead of the resumption of flights between Russia and Georgia, in Tbilisi on Thursday, May 18, 2023. (Tako Robakidze/The New York Times)
EditorialProtesters face off with police officers at Tbilisi International Airport in anticipation of the first direct flight from Russia to Georgia in more than three years, in Tbilisi, Georgia on Friday, May 19, 2023. (Tako Robakidze/The New York Times)
EditorialProtesters face off with police officers at Tbilisi International Airport in anticipation of the first direct flight from Russia to Georgia in more than three years, in Tbilisi, Georgia on Friday, May 19, 2023. (Tako Robakidze/The New York Times)
EditorialProtesters face off with police officers at Tbilisi International Airport in anticipation of the first direct flight from Russia to Georgia in more than three years, in Tbilisi, Georgia on Friday, May 19, 2023. (Tako Robakidze/The New York Times)
EditorialProtesters face off with police officers at Tbilisi International Airport in anticipation of the first direct flight from Russia to Georgia in more than three years, in Tbilisi, Georgia on Friday, May 19, 2023. (Tako Robakidze/The New York Times)
EditorialProtesters face off with police officers at Tbilisi International Airport in anticipation of the first direct flight from Russia to Georgia in more than three years, in Tbilisi, Georgia on Friday, May 19, 2023. (Tako Robakidze/The New York Times)
EditorialProtesters face off with police officers at Tbilisi International Airport in anticipation of the first direct flight from Russia to Georgia in more than three years, in Tbilisi, Georgia on Friday, May 19, 2023. (Tako Robakidze/The New York Times)
EditorialProtesters face off with police officers at Tbilisi International Airport in anticipation of the first direct flight from Russia to Georgia in more than three years, in Tbilisi, Georgia on Friday, May 19, 2023. (Tako Robakidze/The New York Times)
EditorialProtesters face off with police officers at Tbilisi International Airport in anticipation of the first direct flight from Russia to Georgia in more than three years, in Tbilisi, Georgia on Friday, May 19, 2023. (Tako Robakidze/The New York Times)
EditorialProtesters face off with police officers at Tbilisi International Airport in anticipation of the first direct flight from Russia to Georgia in more than three years, in Tbilisi, Georgia on Friday, May 19, 2023. (Tako Robakidze/The New York Times)
EditorialProtesters face off with police officers at Tbilisi International Airport in anticipation of the first direct flight from Russia to Georgia in more than three years, in Tbilisi, Georgia on Friday, May 19, 2023. (Tako Robakidze/The New York Times)
EditorialChildren stand atop a brick dome covering a thermal, spring-fed bath in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, on March 12, 2023. (Justyna Mielnikiewicz/The New York Times)
EditorialAlexei Kondratiev, a woodworker, photographs some of the wooden crafts he made with his brother in Tbilisi, Georgia, on Dec. 15, 2022. (Sergey Ponomarev/The New York Times)
EditorialAnna Dolidze, a rising figure on Georgia?s political scene, broadcasts live on Facebook from a bus station in Tbilisi on Dec. 2, 2022. (Daro Sulakauri/The New York Times)