MOSCOW HOLDS OUT CARROT TO GEORGIA FOR MILITARY BASES.
Lt. Gen. Leonid Ivashov, head of the Russian General Staff's International Military Cooperation Directorate, told a Moscow briefing yesterday that Russia plans to resume "military-technical... MORE
U N.OPENLY BACKS RUSSIA AND ABKHAZIA AGAINST GEORGIA.
Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali's special envoy for Abkhazia settlement negotiations, Edouard Brunner, has delivered a series of statements strongly supporting Russian and Abkhaz positions and... MORE
GEORGIAN EX-OFFICIALS SENTENCED, OTHERS ON TRIAL.
A Tbilisi court yesterday sentenced former defense minister Tengiz Kitovani to 8 years in prison, former deputy prime minister Irakly Surguladze to 21 months incarceration... MORE
GEORGIA WARNS IT MAY ASK RUSSIAN TROOPS TO LEAVE.
The Georgian parliament yesterday adopted a decision in which it officially declared Russia's political mediation between Tbilisi and Abkhazia "unsatisfactory," and held Russian "peacekeeping" forces... MORE
ARMED CLASHES ACCOMPANY RIVAL GEORGIAN AND ABKHAZ ANNIVERSARIES.
Abkhazia yesterday celebrated the third anniversary of its 1993 military victory against Georgia. Several days earlier Georgia had observed its own September 27 Day of... MORE
GEORGIA SEEMS RIPE FOR REAPPRAISAL OF RELATIONS WITH RUSSIA.
Owing to rising tensions in South Ossetia and Abkhazia, Georgian president Eduard Shevardnadze has canceled a visit to the U.S. and the UN scheduled for... MORE
GEORGIA’S FORGOTTEN REPUBLIC ELECTS LEGISLATURE.
The Autonomous Republic of Ajaria, a constituent territory of Georgia, held elections to its Supreme Soviet yesterday. Some 20 parties and organizations, most of them... MORE
GEORGIA SEEKING MILITARY CONTACTS OUTSIDE RUSSIAN ORBIT.
Georgia and Germany have concluded an agreement on training 15 Georgian officers annually in German military schools. The German-funded program is supplemented by one for... MORE
UZBEKISTAN AND GEORGIA, WARY OF CIS MILITARY BLOC, SIGN BILATERAL AGREEMENTS.
The defense ministers of Uzbekistan and Georgia, Col. Gen. Rustem Ahmedov and Lt. Gen. Vardiko Nadibaidze, yesterday told a joint news conference in Tbilisi that... MORE
GEORGIA, UKRAINE DISCUSS MAJOR RAPPROCHEMENT.
Returning from a three-day visit to Kiev, Georgian foreign minister Irakli Menagarishvili told a Tbilisi briefing that he had proposed the deployment of Ukrainian peacekeepers... MORE