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

. President Eduard Shevardnadze had informed his country shortly before the summit that he would not consent to prolonging Russia's "peacekeeping" operation in Abkhazia until... MORE

After being rebuffed by Moscow when it argued that it should share in the division of the former Soviet Black Sea Fleet, it seems that... MORE

Ground, airforce, and paratroop units yesterday completed Georgia's largest-ever military exercise, underway since September 27 under the command of Defense Minister Vardiko Nadibaidze. President Eduard... MORE

Tbilisi yesterday took delivery of most of the archive of the government of the Georgian Democratic Republic, an independent country from 1918 to 1921, which... MORE

The Georgian parliament yesterday approved the country's military doctrine. Submitted by the parliament's Defense and Security Committee, the document had been in the works for... MORE

Georgian army, interior, state security, and border troops, as well as naval and air force units, are holding joint exercises in Western Georgia from September... MORE