Moscow and Tbilisi yesterday revealed deep differences over renewal of the mandate of the Russian "peacekeeping" contingent in the Georgian-Abkhaz conflict zone. Georgian officials listed... MORE

Georgia's parliament yesterday voted overwhelmingly to ratify the 1993 treaty of friendship and cooperation with Russia. The timing of the ratification appears related to the... MORE

Georgian president Eduard Shevardnadze last week sent Russian president Boris Yeltsin a personal letter and a set of letters and documents to the presidents of... MORE

Senior Chevron Oil executives paid a three-day visit to Georgia this week to examine the country's oil transport infrastructure and to consider possible Chevron participation... MORE

Georgian foreign minister Irakli Menagarishvili conferred last weekend in Baku with Azerbaijani president Heydar Aliyev and foreign minister Hassan Hassanov. Their talks focused on Azerbaijani... MORE

At the Georgian parliament's session last week, the chamber's chairman Zurab Zhvania and representatives of the parliamentary factions said that the September 1995 treaty granting... MORE

Addressing the Georgian parliament yesterday, its chairman Zurab Zhvania said that the presence of Russia's "peacekeeping" troops in Abkhazia no longer made sense. Zhvania indicated... MORE

Georgia's former defense minister Tengiz Kitovani and two accomplices went on trial in Tbilisi yesterday on charges of having organized an illegal armed formation. One... MORE

Ukrainian president Leonid Kuchma and foreign minister Hennady Udovenko received in Kiev a special envoy of Georgian president Eduard Shevardnadze to discuss cooperation among the... MORE

The Georgian authorities have arrested oil executive Tamaz Mirianashvili on charges of complicity with former State Security chief Igor Giorgadze, the anti-Shevardnadze conspirator currently being... MORE