GEORGIAN KOMPROMAT
By Zaal Anjaparidze [Editor's Note: Last fall Georgia fell into a political crisis triggered by economic failures against a background of separatist movements and Russian... MORE
THE RUSSIAN SQUEEZE ON GEORGIA
By Vladimir Socor Russia has capped off its three recent summits--held in late May with the United States, NATO and the EU--with increased pressures on... MORE
GEORGIA’S UNWELCOME GUESTS.
Since April 26, Russia and Georgia have resumed the long-running, on-and-off negotiations toward signing a "framework" political treaty on bilateral relations. This document is supposed... MORE
GEORGIA’S WELCOME GUESTS.
On March 30, a first group of some twenty U.S. Army Green Berets arrived in Georgia, launching a mission originally announced in late February and... MORE
REFUGEES IN GEORGIA GOING HOME, OR ELSEWHERE.
Agence France Presse noted on April 22 that the number of Chechen refugees remaining in Georgia's Pankisi Gorge had fallen sharply over the past year.... MORE
REFUGEES IN GEORGIA REGISTERED INTO DATABASE.
Georgia's Ministry for Refugees and Settlement Issues, it was reported on April 15, has begun reregistering Chechen refugees living in the Pankisi Gorge region of... MORE
GEORGIA FOILS RUSSIAN MILITARY INCURSION.
On April 12, Russia's "peacekeeping" forces launched out of Abkhazia an operation aimed at occupying the upper part of Georgia's Kodori Gorge. Georgian state leadership... MORE
RUSSIA SAYS NO TO AMERICAN GREEN BERETS IN GEORGIA.
On March 28, marking the first anniversary of his appointment as Russia's defense minister, Sergei Ivanov issued multiple threats against Georgia at a specially convened... MORE
GEORGIAN POLITICIANS PREPARE FOR POST-SHEVARDNADZE ERA
By Zaal Anjaparidze Georgia is witnessing a new stage in the regrouping of its domestic political forces and leading political figures for the impending post-Shevardnadze... MORE