A convoy of some 550 vehicles transporting an estimated 10,000 tons of pure alcohol -- stopped at the Russian border with Georgia in late July... MORE

Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Vasily Nesterushkin yesterday demanded that Tbilisi "undertake necessary measures for the immediate release" of three Russian paratroopers -- two captains and... MORE

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

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 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 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

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

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

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

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