ARMED CLASHES ACCOMPANY RIVAL GEORGIAN AND ABKHAZ ANNIVERSARIES.
Abkhazia yesterday celebrated the third anniversary of its 1993 military victory against Georgia. Several days earlier Georgia had observed its own September 27 Day of... MORE
GEORGIA SEEMS RIPE FOR REAPPRAISAL OF RELATIONS WITH RUSSIA.
Owing to rising tensions in South Ossetia and Abkhazia, Georgian president Eduard Shevardnadze has canceled a visit to the U.S. and the UN scheduled for... MORE
GEORGIA’S FORGOTTEN REPUBLIC ELECTS LEGISLATURE.
The Autonomous Republic of Ajaria, a constituent territory of Georgia, held elections to its Supreme Soviet yesterday. Some 20 parties and organizations, most of them... MORE
GEORGIA SEEKING MILITARY CONTACTS OUTSIDE RUSSIAN ORBIT.
Georgia and Germany have concluded an agreement on training 15 Georgian officers annually in German military schools. The German-funded program is supplemented by one for... MORE
UZBEKISTAN AND GEORGIA, WARY OF CIS MILITARY BLOC, SIGN BILATERAL AGREEMENTS.
The defense ministers of Uzbekistan and Georgia, Col. Gen. Rustem Ahmedov and Lt. Gen. Vardiko Nadibaidze, yesterday told a joint news conference in Tbilisi that... MORE
GEORGIA, UKRAINE DISCUSS MAJOR RAPPROCHEMENT.
Returning from a three-day visit to Kiev, Georgian foreign minister Irakli Menagarishvili told a Tbilisi briefing that he had proposed the deployment of Ukrainian peacekeepers... MORE
GEORGIA RETURNS LOOTED GERMAN BOOKS.
The Georgian government has returned to Germany more than 100,000 books which were stored in Georgia after having been seized by Soviet authorities in Germany.... MORE
GEORGIAN, RUSSIAN DEFENSE MINISTERS MEND FENCES.
In a "warm, friendly atmosphere," the defense ministers of Russia and Georgia, Col. General Igor Rodionov and Lt. General Vardiko Nadibaidze, signed over the weekend... MORE
IMF URGES BROADER GEORGIAN REFORMS.
In Tbilisi over the weekend, the IMF's first deputy managing director Stanley Fischer expressed confidence that the Georgian government "will not deviate from the chosen... MORE
GEORGIA GETS CONSTITUTIONAL COURT.
Georgia's first-ever Constitutional Court was sworn in yesterday. Created under the constitution adopted in August 1995, the Court is comprised of nine justices -- three... MORE