GEORGIA SEEKS TO CONTROL NATIONAL BORDERS.
The commander of Georgia's border troops, Maj. Gen. Valery Chkheidze, yesterday announced that the country's fledgling navy -- comprised of eight cutters -- began on... MORE
GEORGIAN-CHECHEN MEETING OPENS WAY FOR GOOD NEIGHBORLY RELATIONS.
Georgia's ambassador to Russia, Vazha Lordkipanidze, and Chechnya's external relations minister, Ruslan Kutaev, conferred on November 18 and 19 in Moscow on developing bilateral relations.... MORE
GEORGIAN "ZVIADISTS" SENTENCED.
Loti Kobalia, former commander of the late president Zviad Gamsakhurdia's paramilitary force, was sentenced to death yesterday by Georgia's Supreme Court on charges of high... MORE
GEORGIAN-ABKHAZ DIRECT CONTACTS DISCLOSED.
Senior Georgian officials and Abkhaz representatives disclosed yesterday that a delegation headed by Abkhazia's unrecognized foreign minister, Konstantin Ozgan, conferred with Georgian president Eduard Shevardnadze... MORE
RUSSIA RESUMING MILITARY ASSISTANCE TO GEORGIA.
The defense ministers of Russia and Georgia, Gen. Igor Rodionov and Lt. Gen. Vardiko Nadibaidze, conferred in Moscow and finalized a program of Russian military... MORE
SOUTH OSSETIA ELECTS A PRESIDENT UNRECOGNIZED BY GEORGIA.
South Ossetian Supreme Soviet chairman Lyudvig Chibirov has won the first-ever presidential election in the unrecognized republic. Voter turnout was low, and ethnic Georgians boycotted... MORE
GEORGIA’S NAVY CHIEF RESIGNS.
Rear-Adm. Aleksandr Dzhavakhishvili has resigned as commander of the Georgian navy because of "a serious disagreement" with the country's defense minister. The 64-year-old admiral had... MORE
UKRAINE, GEORGIA "FULLY CONCUR" IN FOREIGN POLICY.
In a joint communique released yesterday, Ukraine and Georgia recorded the "full concurrence of their interests, positions, and assessments regarding the key problems of international... MORE
GEORGIA SPECIFIES CLAIM TO BLACK SEA FLEET SHARE.
Georgia's naval commander, Rear Adm. Aleksandr Javahishvili, yesterday spelled out what Georgia claims "for the moment" as its share of the ex-Soviet Black Sea Fleet.... MORE
GEORGIAN-CHECHEN RAPPROCHEMENT COULD DEPRIVE MOSCOW OF MAJOR POLICY CARDS.
Chechen president-in-waiting Zelimkhan Yandarbiev and Prime Minister Aslan Maskhadov are cited as having told Georgian journalists this week that they seek a meeting with the... MORE