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Latest Articles about Georgia
ABKHAZIA’S PRESIDENTIAL RACE ENTERS FINAL LAP
On October 3, voters in Abkhazia will choose a successor to their ailing president. Vladislav Ardzinba led the region in its fight for independence from Georgia in 1992 and 1993 before becoming president of the self-declared republic in 1994. The new president of Abkhazia will... MORE
COMMENTARY: CLEAN BREAK OVERDUE IN SOUTH OSSETIA
Georgia has proposed an OSCE-hosted international conference that would institute genuine peacekeeping and negotiating mechanisms regarding South Ossetia. The process, once launched, would ultimately work out a definitive political solution to the South Ossetia conflict. OSCE's Chairman-in-Office, Bulgarian Minister of Foreign Affairs Solomon Passy, has... MORE
GEORGIAN PARLIAMENT AND MEDIA DEBATE CONTROVERSIAL BILLS
Georgia's draft media law is rapidly becoming a major embarrassment for the Saakashvili government. Ironically, the new legislation, if adopted, would make life much harder for the Georgian media, which was a key player during the Rose Revolution of November 2003. Georgia's new tax code,... MORE
FAILED STATE NO MORE: GEORGIA’S PRESIDENT ADDRESSES JAMESTOWN EVENT
Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili addressed an audience of prominent businessmen and other distinguished Americans and Europeans at a special event hosted for him by the Jamestown Foundation in New York on September 20. Saakashvili spoke on Georgia's state consolidation, its security problems, and its Euro-Atlantic... MORE
GEORGIAN PARLIAMENT DEBATES RELATIONS WITH RUSSIA
On September 16, Georgian television broadcast live parliamentary debates on recent events in South Ossetia and how they fit into the broader context of Georgian-Russian relations. The pointed debate suggested that Georgia's political opposition has awakened from its long hibernation following the November 2003 Rose... MORE
Tbilisi Sends Interior Troops To Prove Pankisi Is Terrorist Free
The fallout continues over the recent public statement by Richard Miles, U.S. Ambassador to Georgia, about the presence of terrorist groups in Georgia's Pankisi Gorge (see EDM, September 16). On September 21, Georgian Interior Ministry forces, in cooperation with the Security Ministry, inspected the Pankisi... MORE
U.s. Officials Give Conflicting Assessments Of Pankisi Effort
The U.S. Ambassador to Georgia, Richard Miles, has weighed in on Russian media and official allegations that Georgia is harboring terrorists and thus is a possible target for preemptive strikes. Miles surprised the Georgian political establishment and reporters with critical remarks about the Georgian government's... MORE
Tbilisi Weighs Response To Abkhazia’s Latest Shift Toward Moscow
For the first time in eleven years, the entire rail line between Moscow and Sukhumi, the capital of Georgia's breakaway Abkhazia, resumed operation on September 10. Gennady Fadeyev, chief of the state-run Russian Railway Company, participated in the ceremony, giving it an air of official... MORE
As Russia Seeks Revenge, Tbilisi Is Likely To Find Itself On The Front Line
Regional analysts predict that the recent comments from Russia's top brass that Moscow will preemptively strike "terrorist bases" anywhere in the world will likely cause alarm in all neighboring countries, particularly Georgia. On September 12, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov confirmed that Russia is prepared... MORE
Commentary: Illegitimate Peacekeeping — A Sphere-of-influence Tool
The existing Russian "peacekeeping" operation for Abkhazia is a legacy of the 1993 Russian military intervention in Georgia, the subsequent military advance to the Inguri River, and the ethnic cleansing of the Georgian plurality of Abkhazia's population by the Russian-backed Abkhaz minority. International organizations and... MORE