The AES Corporation of the United States yesterday took over Georgia's Telasi electrical power company and power grid, which supply Tbilisi and the surrounding region... MORE

President Eduard Shevardnadze announced on December 21 that Russian border troops have completed the handover of a major sector of the Georgian-Turkish land frontier to... MORE

According to the Georgian special services, international terrorist organizations have chosen Chechnya as one of their main bases, and training camps for Islamic guerrillas are... MORE

Addressing the parliament on December 12, State Minister (equivalent to prime minister) Vazha Lortkipanidze described official corruption in Georgia as a "threat to the very... MORE

Visiting Georgia on December 7-8, Ukrainian Prime Minister Valery Pustovoytenko called for assigning priority to the Baku-Supsa (Georgia) pipeline, rather than the Baku-Ceyhan (Turkey) route,... MORE

The Georgian parliament approved yesterday the nomination of Davit Onoprishvili as finance minister. His immediate predecessor, "financial whiz-kid" Mikheil Chkuaseli, resigned last week under fire... MORE

The wanted Lieutenant-Colonel Akaki Eliava, leader of the October 19 Zviadist-military mutiny, made an unexpected appearance on the Tbilisi TV station Rustavi-2 on November 16.... MORE

On November 15 Georgia held its first local elections since independence. These were also the country's first electoral exercise since 1995. Internal political forces and... MORE

Twenty-eight-year-old Finance Minister Mikhel Chkuaseli, one of Georgia's foremost reformers, resigned on November 14 after approximately one year in office. His resignation capped that of... MORE

Georgia's Chief of the General Staff, Major-General Johnny Pirtskhalaishvili, and U.S. Army Colonel Alan Stolberg, on behalf of the Pentagon, signed yesterday in Tbilisi a... MORE