The mandate of Russian "peacekeeping" forces in Abkhazia expired July 19 as Tbilisi withheld consent to its renewal. On the same day Georgia's Security Council,... MORE

The U.S. government has allocated $500,000 (five hundred thousand) toward Georgia's participation in NATO's Partnership for Peace program, U.S. assistant secretary of state for arms... MORE

Georgian president Eduard Shevardnadze yesterday told the country on radio that the UN Security Council's July 12 resolution on Abkhazia opened the way toward a... MORE

Georgian president Eduard Shevardnadze told the country on radio yesterday that Tbilisi hopes to obtain a UN Security Council resolution on the principles of settling... MORE

. Describing Yeltsin's reelection as "a victory for world democracy," Georgian president Eduard Shevardnadze pronounced himself relieved that "Russia has, thank God, made the right... MORE

A Georgian court has sentenced the two Pachulia brothers, well-known Abkhaz fighters, to 15 years and 14 years imprisonment for crimes in connection with the... MORE

Georgian president Eduard Shevardnadze's chief spokesman Vahtang Abashidze told a news conference yesterday that the possible appointment of Col. General Igor Rodionov as Russian defense... MORE

The current changes at the top of Russia's military hierarchy must give Georgia pause. Aleksandr Lebed, just appointed by president Yeltsin to Russia's most powerful... MORE

The Georgian press over the weekend cited Russia's ousted defense minister, General Pavel Grachev, as saying that he has many friends in Defense Ministries of... MORE

Nadibaidze apparently did not mention at the briefing that Moscow expects basing rights in Georgia as a quid-pro-quo for military materiel it plans to provide.... MORE