TWO FLASHPOINTS IN GEORGIA.
Georgian-Abkhaz tensions are being artificially exacerbated by criminal incidents in an Abkhaz-controlled district. On July 9, unidentified gunmen who are presumed to be Georgian guerrillas... MORE
RUSSIAN MILITARY HANDS OVER VAZIANI BASE TO GEORGIA.
On June 29, Russian troops left the Vaziani base and Georgian troops took it over. On the same day in Tbilisi, senior officials of the... MORE
MAJOR NATO EXERCISE SUCCESSFULLY HELD IN GEORGIA.
From June 11 through 23, Georgia hosted the NATO-led exercise Cooperative Partner 2001. Held annually in the Black Sea region, this year Cooperative Partner was... MORE
MOSCOW TIGHTENS SCREWS ON GEORGIA.
Over the past week, the Russian leadership visibly ratcheted up the pressure on the Republic of Georgia over the Chechen question, and it even appeared,... MORE
IMF TO DELAY LOAN DISBURSEMENT TO GEORGIA.
During a recent visit to Tbilisi, a team of International Monetary Fund specialists recommended withholding the third US$12 million tranche of the country's US$141 million... MORE
STRONG EXPORT GROWTH HELPS GEORGIA AVOID ECONOMIC DISASTER IN 2000.
Georgia spent much of 2000 wrestling with a serious budgetary crisis, and a severe drought which reduced agricultural production by some 15 percent added further... MORE
PROGRESS IN GEORGIA’S MILITARY RELATIONS WITH NATO COUNTRIES.
Recent, fairly common forecasts that Georgia was about to turn away from NATO in deference to Moscow are not being borne out. Russian pressures notwithstanding,... MORE
MOSCOW INTRODUCES FULL VISA REQUIREMENTS FOR GEORGIANS
By Igor Rotar TBILISI PUNISHED FOR ITS RELUCTANCE TO FIGHT THE CHECHENS From March 1 full visa requirements came into force between Russia and Georgia.... MORE
MOSCOW SEEKING TO RETAIN BASES IN GEORGIA PAST THE WITHDRAWAL DEADLINE.
On March 23-24 in Moscow, Russia's Deputy Prime Minister Ilya Klebanov and Georgia's Foreign Affairs Minister Irakli Menagarishvili held talks on the Russian military bases... MORE