RUSSIAN BORDER TROOPS YIELD TO GEORGIA IN DISPUTED SECTOR.
The command of Georgia's border troops announced yesterday that Russian border troops had on December 17 moved their Upper Larsi post back to its original... MORE
GEORGIAN PARLIAMENT SENDS WARNING SIGNAL TO MOSCOW.
At an extraordinary sitting yesterday, the Georgian parliament unanimously resolved to set up four special commissions. They are mandated, respectively, to report on: whether it... MORE
WILL MOSCOW PLAY THE AJAR CARD IN GEORGIA?
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
RUSSIA PROMISES GEORGIA TO RETURN BORDER POST TO ORIGINAL LOCATION.
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
RUSSIAN-GEORGIAN BORDER INCIDENT ESCALATING.
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
RUSSIAN MILITARY — A SOURCE OF TENSION IN GEORGIA.
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
GEORGIA: A CONFLICT MAY BE BREWING BETWEEN TBILISI AND AJARIA, SEEN UNTIL NOW AS GEORGIA’S MOST PEACEFUL REGION
Georgia: A conflict may be brewing between Tbilisi and Ajaria, seen until now as Georgia's most peaceful region By Zaal Anjaparidze There are signs that... MORE
GEORGIA TO RECEIVE BRITISH MILITARY ASSISTANCE.
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
GEORGIA ABOLISHES CAPITAL PUNISHMENT.
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