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
GEORGIAN PRESIDENT WEIGHS IN.
The October 18 issue of Obshchaya Gazeta carried an interview conducted in Tbilisi with Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze. Asked whether a group of Chechen fighters... MORE
SECOND FRONT IN GEORGIA–A STAGE-SETTER FOR RUSSIAN INTERVENTION.
Will Moscow succeed in turning Georgia into the first casualty of Russian antiterrorist "assistance" to the United States? Mysteriously provoked armed clashes have escalated since... MORE
HAVE CHECHEN REBELS JOINED GEORGIANS TO FIGHT THE ABKHAZIANS?
Both Russian and Abkhazian authorities have alleged that a joint force of Chechen rebel fighters and Georgian guerrillas recently attempted to invade the self-styled republic... MORE
GEORGIAN ECONOMY RECOVERING FROM LAST YEAR’S DROUGHT…
The Georgian economy is recovering from the 2000 drought, which last year led to a 15 percent drop in agricultural production and pushed GDP growth... MORE
…AS SHADOW HANGS OVER GEORGIAN GOVERNMENT FINANCES.
Although the Georgian economy will likely record acceptable levels of growth this year, the country's future economic position continues to be threatened by a troubled... MORE
THREE PRESSURE POINTS ON GEORGIA.
President Eduard Shevardnadze embarked yesterday on a visit to the United States in spite of mounting Russian pressures on Georgia. Those pressures are currently taking... MORE
GEORGIA PROPOSES THAT REBEL FIELD COMMANDER LEAVE COUNTRY.
On September 28, the official Russian news agency Itar-Tass reported that the Georgian authorities had proposed to major Chechen field commander Ruslan (Khamzat) Gelaev that... MORE
RUSSIA RATCHETS UP PRESSURE ON GEORGIA OVER ALLEGED PRESENCE OF CHECHEN “TERRORISTS” ON GEORGIAN SOIL.
The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has sent a tough, even brutal note to the Georgian government concerning an alleged Chechen terrorist presence on Georgian... MORE