Updated reports have raised to seventeen (from the initially reported thirteen) the number of Abkhaz troopers killed in the May 18 clash with Georgian Forest... MORE

Georgian Parliament Chairman Zurab Zhvania yesterday described as legitimate the Georgian guerrilla movement in Abkhazia. Receiving a Russian parliamentary delegation in Tbilisi, Zhvania condemned the... MORE

President Eduard Shevardnadze has appointed Major-General Johnny Pirtskhalaishvili to the post of chief of staff of the armed forces. Pirtskhalaishvili, 51, is a graduate of... MORE

Two Turkish and two Georgian warships exercised jointly in Black Sea waters off Georgia's ports Poti and Batumi from April 30 through May 2. Code-named... MORE

According to Georgian reports, some of them from State Security Ministry officials, Georgian "self-defense units" seized control of the villages Saberio and Khumushkuri in Abkhazia... MORE

The Georgian parliament yesterday approved President Eduard Shevardnadze's choice of Colonel Davit Tevzadze as defense minister. Tevzadze replaces Lieutenant-General Vardiko Nadibaidze, who had to resign... MORE

Georgia's Defense Minister, Lieutenant-General Vardiko Nadibaidze, resigned yesterday at the request of President Eduard Shevardnadze. An emergency meeting of the National Security Council--chaired by Shevardnadze--held... MORE

The anti-corruption campaign announced earlier this year by President Eduard Shevardnadze seems to have made its mark on Georgia's troubled energy sector. Shevardnadze on April... MORE

Britain's Foreign Secretary Robin Cook has defended a controversial decision by the British government to accept a consignment of nuclear waste from Georgia for recycling... MORE