In Georgia, workers challenge a Russian oligarch
Mikhail Fridman is one of the wealthiest men in Russia and a close associate of Vladimir Putin. He was included in the earliest lists of individuals sanctioned by the West for his complicity in the criminal invasion of Ukraine. Among his many investments is a Georgian mineral water company known as “Borjomi” - which is the spa town where the local water has been bottled for more than a century. The sulphurous taste of the water is not to everyone’s liking, but for decades the company has profited from the perception that Borjomi water has certain healing properties. After the collapse of...