SOUTH OSSETIAN SECESSIONIST ELECTION ENCOURAGED BY GEORGIA’S NORTHERN NEIGHBOR.
President Akhsarbek Galazov of the Russian Federation's republic of North Ossetia has endorsed the planned presidential election in South Ossetia, the breakaway region of Georgia.... MORE
UKRAINE-GEORGIA: "SPECIAL RELATIONS" TO BUTTRESS EACH OTHER’S INDEPENDENCE.
On a three-day visit to Georgia, during which he conferred with President Eduard Shevardnadze, Ukrainian prime minister Pavlo Lazarenko and officials accompanying him concluded a... MORE
UKRAINE AND GEORGIA TO DISCUSS EURASIAN CORRIDOR.
The creation of a Eurasian Transport Corridor is to be discussed during a visit to Georgia by Ukrainian prime minister Pavel Lazarenko. According to a... MORE
GEORGIA RETURNS GERMAN CULTURAL VALUABLES.
At a ceremony in Berlin, Georgia returned to Germany approximately 100,000 books looted by the Red Army from libraries in Berlin, Luebeck, Hamburg, Bremen, Leipzig,... MORE
MOSCOW HOLDS OUT CARROT TO GEORGIA FOR MILITARY BASES.
Lt. Gen. Leonid Ivashov, head of the Russian General Staff's International Military Cooperation Directorate, told a Moscow briefing yesterday that Russia plans to resume "military-technical... MORE
U N.OPENLY BACKS RUSSIA AND ABKHAZIA AGAINST GEORGIA.
Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali's special envoy for Abkhazia settlement negotiations, Edouard Brunner, has delivered a series of statements strongly supporting Russian and Abkhaz positions and... MORE
GEORGIAN EX-OFFICIALS SENTENCED, OTHERS ON TRIAL.
A Tbilisi court yesterday sentenced former defense minister Tengiz Kitovani to 8 years in prison, former deputy prime minister Irakly Surguladze to 21 months incarceration... MORE
GEORGIA WARNS IT MAY ASK RUSSIAN TROOPS TO LEAVE.
The Georgian parliament yesterday adopted a decision in which it officially declared Russia's political mediation between Tbilisi and Abkhazia "unsatisfactory," and held Russian "peacekeeping" forces... MORE
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