GEORGIAN PREMIER RETURNS EMPTY-HANDED FROM ABKHAZIA.
State Minister (equivalent of prime minister) Niko Lekishvili and a delegation of Georgian cabinet ministers conferred yesterday in Abkhazia's capital, Sukhumi, with Vladislav Ardzinba and... MORE
GEORGIAN GUERRILLAS ACTIVE IN ABKHAZ SECURITY ZONE.
A Georgian paramilitary group yesterday took three Russian soldiers hostage on the Georgian side of the Georgian-Abkhaz military demarcation line. The group is offering to... MORE
U.S. SENATOR DESCRIBES GEORGIA AS LEADER IN CIS ECONOMIC REFORM.
U.S. senator John McCain (Republican from Arizona) was recently quoted by the press in Tbilisi as saying that, in terms of progress in economic reform,... MORE
GEORGIAN, ABKHAZ LEADERS HOLD LANDMARK MEETING.
Georgian president Eduard Shevardnadze and Abkhaz leader Vladislav Ardzinba held a surprise meeting in Tbilisi on August 14 and 15 under the mediation of Russian... MORE
GUNFIRE STOPS "ALCOHOL CONVOY" AT RUSSIAN-GEORGIAN BORDER.
A convoy of some 550 vehicles transporting an estimated 10,000 tons of pure alcohol, apparently to be unloaded in the North Ossetian capital of Vladikavkaz,... MORE
NEW FORMAT FOR GEORGIAN-ABKHAZ NEGOTIATIONS.
The first round of Georgian-Abkhaz negotiations under a new format was held in Geneva on July 23-25. The U.S., Germany, Britain, and France, which jointly... MORE
GEORGIAN MONUMENT BLOWN UP IN SOUTH OSSETIA.
The museum dedicated to the well-known Georgian writer, Prince Ivane Machabeli, was blown up on July 23 in Tamarasheni, South Ossetia. Local anti-Georgian separatists are... MORE
DEMIREL IN GEORGIA.
Turkish president Suleyman Demirel, accompanied by six cabinet ministers and a large business delegation, paid an official visit to Georgia on July 14 and 15.... MORE
GEORGIA REPEATS CLAIMS TO SOVIET ARMS.
Georgian officials have repeated their charges that Russia illegally removed Soviet military equipment from Georgia following the break-up of the Soviet Union in 1991, and... MORE
GEORGIAN COMMUNIST SENTENCED.
Georgia's Supreme Court yesterday sentenced Vazha Khachapuridze, one of the leaders of the United Communist Party of Georgia, to five years in prison for having... MORE