GEORGIA RE-ESTABLISHING CONTROL IN PANKISI GORGE.
Georgia's Internal Affairs and State Security Ministries are conducting a carefully calibrated operation to restore order in the Pankisi Gorge, the scene in the last... MORE
GEORGIAN ECONOMY PRESENTS MIXED PICTURE.
Although the Georgian economy likely recorded an acceptable level of growth in 2001, the country's future economic position continues to be threatened by a number... MORE
FEDERAL CONTROL OVER GEORGIAN BORDER HEIGHTENED.
On December 11, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov announced that Russia has strengthened its control over the entire length of the Russian-Georgian border. "In Georgia,"... MORE
PUTIN INTENSIFIES PRESSURES ON GEORGIA.
Overruling the Kremlin's public relations consultants, Russian President Vladimir Putin has sided with the generals who bombed Georgian territory on November 27-28. The consultants--Gleb Pavlovsky's... MORE
KREMLIN SAYS BOMBING OF GEORGIA JUSTIFIED BUT PREMATURE.
Struggling to explain the November 27-28 Russian air strikes on Georgia, President Vladimir Putin's Defense Ministry and the Kremlin's public relations operation are giving each... MORE
TEXAS BARBECUE OVER, PUTIN GRILLS GEORGIA.
At dawn on November 28, Russian aviation bombed Georgia's Pankisi Gorge, which lies well inside that country's borders. The action continued a pattern set by... MORE
WHAT KIND OF STABILITY IN GEORGIA?
The political situation in Georgia is stabilizing, though not normalizing in the wake of the October 30-November 1 mass protests in Tbilisi. The crisis, triggered... MORE
GEORGIA’S GOVERNMENT, PARLIAMENTARY SPEAKER RESIGN.
Georgia's long-simmering political malaise has suddenly boiled over as a political crisis. On November 1, President Eduard Shevardnadze released all government ministers from their posts,... MORE
RUSSIAN AIR RAIDS ON GEORGIA ESCALATE.
On October 27, 28 and 29, "unidentified" Russian Sukhoi fighter-bombers and Mi-24 attack helicopters bombed and strafed the Kodori Gorge in Svanetia, northwestern Georgia. They... MORE
RUSSIAN-GEORGIAN RELATIONS.
Writing in the no. 43 (October 25) issue of Obshchaya Gazeta, a well-known Russian political analyst, Dmitry Furman, offered some tongue-in-cheek comments about the present... MORE