Addressing the Georgian parliament yesterday, its chairman Zurab Zhvania said that the presence of Russia's "peacekeeping" troops in Abkhazia no longer made sense. Zhvania indicated... MORE

Georgia's former defense minister Tengiz Kitovani and two accomplices went on trial in Tbilisi yesterday on charges of having organized an illegal armed formation. One... MORE

Ukrainian president Leonid Kuchma and foreign minister Hennady Udovenko received in Kiev a special envoy of Georgian president Eduard Shevardnadze to discuss cooperation among the... MORE

The Georgian authorities have arrested oil executive Tamaz Mirianashvili on charges of complicity with former State Security chief Igor Giorgadze, the anti-Shevardnadze conspirator currently being... MORE

The parliament of Georgia has approved most of President Eduard Shevardnadze's choices for cabinet posts, following individual consideration of the nominations submitted by the ruling... MORE

Georgian president Eduard Shevardnadze yesterday decreed a new structure and operating rules for the country's cabinet of ministers. The decree abolishes the position of prime... MORE

The commander of Georgia's Internal Ministry troops, Maj. General Giya Taradze has been dismissed, and his deputy, Colonel Akaki Barbakadze, has been arrested. Taradze is... MORE

Ignoring a vow of confidentiality, Abkhaz leader Vladislav Ardzinba and Supreme Soviet deputies have in the last three days exchanged public recriminations over a proposed... MORE

Eduard Shevardnadze yesterday took the oath of office as president of Georgia and was blessed by patriarch Ilia II in the cathedral of the country's... MORE

Another round of Georgian-Abkhaz negotiations, in progress in Moscow under Russian and UN mediation since the beginning of the month, broke down yesterday. Two time... MORE