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

Georgia's defense minister, Lt. General Vardiko Nadibaidze yesterday publicly thanked President Eduard Shevardnadze for accepting his assurances that he had nothing to do with an... MORE

The trial in Georgia of the two Pachulia brothers, well known Abkhaz fighters accused of ethnic cleansing crimes, failed to begin yesterday as scheduled. Officials... MORE

In televised statements yesterday, Russia's newly appointed Security Council secretary and presidential security adviser, Aleksandr Lebed, accused Georgian defense minister Vardiko Nadibaidze of having joined... MORE