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
WESTERN AND UKRAINIAN ROLE GROWING IN GEORGIAN-ABKHAZ NEGOTIATIONS.
On March 15-16 in Yalta, Ukraine hosted the fourth session in as many years of the "Geneva process," which is designed to internationalize the negotiations... MORE
CHECHEN REFUGEES IN GEORGIA.
At the beginning of February, Vakhtang Shamiladze, chairman of the subcommittee of the Georgian parliament for relations with the peoples of the North Caucasus, urged... MORE
GEORGIA MILITARY UPDATE.
Speculation continues around President Eduard Shevardnadze's February 5 statement about Georgia's strategic options by the end of his current--and last--term of office in 2005. In... MORE
GEORGIA-TURKEY ENTENTE.
President Eduard Shevardnadze's January 29-30 visit to Turkey highlighted that country's role as a buttress to Georgian independence and anchor to the West. The visit... MORE
MOSCOW SEEKS OPEN-ENDED RETENTION OF MILITARY BASES IN GEORGIA.
As anticipated (see the Monitor, October 24), Russia expects the Western powers to tolerate its continued military presence in Georgia, once Moscow has reduced its... MORE