Some 100 Tbilisi activists of the youth branch of the Georgia Citizens' Union, the country's governing party, demonstrated December 5-7 outside the Russian border post... MORE

Georgian parliament chairman Zurab Zhvania told a December 2 news conference that "Russian actions vis-a-vis Georgia are gradually turning into a cold war." Zhvania singled... MORE

British assistant defense secretary Roger Jackling announced yesterday in Tbilisi that Britain will donate to Georgia two coastal guard cutters. Britain will furthermore receive in... MORE

At President Eduard Shevardnadze's initiative, the Georgian parliament yesterday voted overwhelmingly to abolish the death penalty. Shevardnadze needed three years to persuade parliament to take... MORE

Some 500 Communists gathered on November 5 in Gori, Stalin's birthplace. The former chairman of Georgia's parliament, Vahtang Goguadze, called for cooperation with Russia in... MORE

According to official data released by the CIS Interstate Statistical Committee, Kyrgyzstan during the first nine months of the year reported a whopping 45.9 percent... MORE

Returning yesterday with President Leonid Kuchma from Georgia, Ukrainian officials cited him as stating at the concluding news conference there that "a third man, Boris... MORE

At a two-day meeting in Tbilisi, Presidents Leonid Kuchma of Ukraine and Eduard Shevardnadze of Georgia, together with their respective defense ministers, agreed on measures... MORE

According to Georgian foreign minister Irakly Menagarishvili, Georgia "will leave the CIS if affiliation with it does not correspond with Georgia's national interests." Tbilisi's decision... MORE