GEORGIA MAY BE DEVELOPING A MILITARY OPTION IN ABKHAZIA.
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
TBILISI HAS ONLY PARTIAL CONTROL OVER GEORGIA’S ARMENIAN REGIONS.
By Igor Rotar Georgia's ethnic Armenian population compactly resides in the Meskhet-Javakhetia region, which borders Armenia, predominantly on the Javakhetian side. Armenians make up more... MORE
PARLIAMENTARY LEADER MORALLY SUPPORTS GEORGIAN GUERRILLAS IN ABKHAZIA.
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
GEORGIAN CHIEF OF STAFF APPOINTED.
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
GEORGIAN-TURKISH NAVAL EXERCISE: A BREAKTHROUGH FOR GEORGIA.
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
HAVE GEORGIAN GUERRILLAS SEIZED GROUND IN ABKHAZIA.
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 WESTERN-ORIENTED OFFICER CONFIRMED AS GEORGIAN DEFENSE MINISTER.
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
GEORGIAN DEFENSE MINISTER NADIBAIDZE REPLACED.
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