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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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