GOVERNMENT REFORM IN GEORGIA.
At least ten Georgian cabinet ministers resigned yesterday, following the resignation of State Minister (equivalent of prime minister) Niko Lekishvili. President Eduard Shevardnadze made public... MORE
AJARIA FOLLOWS ABKHAZIA IN REJECTING GEORGIAN BORDER TROOPS.
Under a Russian-Georgian agreement initialed but not signed (see the Monitor, June 30 and July 2), Georgian border troops began on July 16 a phased... MORE
ABKHAZIA RELEASES GEORGIAN COMMANDER AFTER CHECHEN INTERCESSION.
Abkhaz authorities yesterday released Ruzgen Gogokhia, a prominent Georgian commander in the 1992-93 war. The Abkhaz kidnapped Gogokhia in 1995 and sentenced him to death,... MORE
GEORGIA’S PRESIDENT AWARDED AS NATION-BUILDER.
The Richard Nixon Center for Peace and Freedom has conferred on Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze the 1988 Award for Nation-Building. According to an accompanying statement,... MORE
GEORGIAN ARMY DEMORALIZED, MINISTER SAYS.
Defense Minister Davit Tevzadze admitted during a July 10 press conference that "a defeatist syndrome exists" in the Georgian army since last May's fighting in... MORE
GEORGIA AND THE “NEW SILK ROAD”
The Transport Corridor of Europe-Caucasus-Asia [TRACECA] -- a European Union-sponsored project involving Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Azerbaijan, Armenia, and Georgia, which is also known... MORE
RUSSIA AGREES TO BEGIN YIELDING CONTROL OF GEORGIA’S BORDERS.
Russian border troops will on July 16 begin "gradually" handing over the control of Georgia's borders to Georgian troops. The decision was announced in Tbilisi... MORE
HOW EMIGRATION AFFECTS GEORGIA
By Zaal Anjaparidze 1. BACKGROUND In 1987-88, it became apparent that the USSR was in a profound economic and political crisis. Ethnic and ethno-territorial conflicts... MORE
RUSSIAN-GEORGIAN BORDER CHECKPOINT FIRED UPON.
The Verkhny Lars checkpoint in North Ossetia, on the Russian border with Georgia, was fired on for several hours on June 18. Four trucks were... MORE
THREE PARLIAMENTARY GROUPS BOYCOTT GEORGIA’S LEGISLATURE.
All thirteen members of the "Labor" group of deputies staged a walkout from the Georgian parliament on June 12. The sixteen members of the Socialist... MORE