GEORGIAN SECURITY MINISTER RESIGNS IN WIRETAPPING SCANDAL.
Georgian president Eduard Shevardnadze yesterday announced that he has accepted Lt. Gen. Shota Kviraia's resignation as minister of state security. Kviraia "placed Georgia's interests above... MORE
GEORGIA’S SECURITY MINISTER UNDER FIRE.
Georgian president Eduard Shevardnadze has ordered the General Prosecutor to investigate charges that the State Security Ministry has wiretapped the telephones of opposition journalists. The... MORE
ABKHAZIA SEEMS SET TO BECOME A “SECOND CHECHNYA” FOR BOTH RUSSIA AND GEORGIA, PRISM’S CORRESPONDENT REPORTS FROM THE REGION
Abkhazia seems set to become a "second Chechnya" for both Russia and Georgia, Prism's correspondent reports from the region By Igor Rotar June 7-20 saw... MORE
GEORGIA PUSHES CLAIM TO PART OF BLACK SEA FLEET.
Having finally settled a six-year-long dispute with Ukraine over dividing the former Soviet Black Sea Fleet (BSF), it looks as though Russia is going to... MORE
KAZAKSTAN-GEORGIA PIPELINE UNDER ACTIVE CONSIDERATION.
Georgian president Eduard Shevardnadze and Chevron overseas president Richard Matzke conferred yesterday in Tbilisi on the transportation of oil from Kazakstan's giant Tengiz field, a... MORE
GEORGIA WARNS IT COULD SEND RUSSIAN TROOPS HOME.
Georgianpresident Eduard Shevardnadze has asked Boris Yeltsin to take"effective steps" to enforce a March 28 CIS summit resolutionon Abkhazia, Shevardnadze's office announced yesterday. Shevardnadze'smessage to... MORE
GEORGIAN-CHECHEN CONTACTS GATHER MOMENTUM.
Georgian presidentEduard Shevardnadze on June 1 received Chechen president AslanMaskhadov's counselor and envoy for special issues Ruslan Kutaev,who was paying his second visit to Tbilisi... MORE
RUSSIA SAYS GEORGIA NOT ENTITLED TO BLACK SEA FLEET SHIPS.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Valery Nesterushkin said yesterday that Russia sees no reason to give Georgia some of the ships from the former Soviet Black... MORE
UKRAINE INTENSIFIES MILITARY COOPERATION WITH GEORGIA.
On an official visit to Georgia, Ukrainian defense minister Oleksandr Kuzmuk conferred with President Eduard Shevardnadze and signed with Defense Minister Vardiko Nadibaidze a package... MORE
GEORGIA SEEKS ITALIAN, TURKISH TRAINING OF ITS BORDER TROOPS.
Eduard Shevardnadze signed last week in Rome a military cooperation agreement envisaging Italian training for Georgia's border and coastal guard troops, the Georgian president announced... MORE