MORE TROUBLE WITH RUSSIAN BORDER TROOPS IN GEORGIA.
The "alcohol war" on the Georgian-Russian border (see Monitor, September 9) is developing larger political dimensions and is also drawing attention to broader problems created... MORE
RUSSIAN-GEORGIAN TENSIONS DEEPEN OVER ALCOHOL CONVOY.
The affair of the truck convoy that was allegedly attempting to smuggle pure alcohol across the Georgian border and that has been stopped by Russian... MORE
KYRGYZSTAN, GEORGIA CONTINUE TO BOAST FASTEST GROWING CIS ECONOMIES.
According to data on industrial production during the first seven months of 1997, released recently by the CIS Interstate Statistical Committee, Kyrgyzstan reported a whopping... MORE
CHECHNYA TO BUILD OIL PIPELINE TO GEORGIAN COAST?
Djohar-gala will soon begin construction of an oil pipeline from Chechnya to the Georgian Black Sea coast, Chechen vice-president Vakha Arsanov announced on August 27... MORE
GEORGIA DENIES CHANGE OF HEART ON BLACK SEA FLEET.
Georgian president Eduard Shevardnadze's press secretary yesterday expressed surprise at media reports from Kiev that quoted visiting defense minister Vardiko Nadibaidze as saying Georgia had... MORE
GEORGIA DROPS BID FOR PART OF BLACK SEA FLEET.
Georgian defense minister Vardiko Nadibaidze said on Saturday in Kiev that his country is no longer insisting that it be given part of the former... MORE
RUSSIAN PARATROOPERS RELEASED IN GEORGIAN-ABKHAZ DEAL.
The Georgian "White Legion" guerrilla group has released the three Russian paratroopers it had been holding hostage since August 16, but kept their weapons. The... MORE
GEORGIAN GOVERNMENT "THOROUGHLY STUDIES" THE SMUGGLERS’ CONVOY STOPPED AT RUSSIAN BORDER.
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
GEORGIA IS URGED TO RESCUE RUSSIAN PARATROOP HOSTAGES.
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
GEORGIAN PREMIER RETURNS EMPTY-HANDED FROM ABKHAZIA.
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