Ajaria's Supreme Soviet chairman, Aslan Abashidze, declared via Russia's official news agency yesterday that "Russian border guards and army troops stationed in Ajaria are the... MORE

The Russian side agreed yesterday to restore the status quo in the Upper Larsi border sector by moving its border post back to the original... MORE

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