UKRAINE, GEORGIA CONCERTING IN ADVANCE OF CIS SUMMIT.
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
…AND ARRESTED IN GEORGIA.
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
GEORGIAN CABINET APPROVED.
The parliament of Georgia has approved most of President Eduard Shevardnadze's choices for cabinet posts, following individual consideration of the nominations submitted by the ruling... MORE
SHEVARDNADZE RESTRUCTURES GEORGIAN GOVERNMENT, LAUNCHES MILITARY MODERNIZATION.
Georgian president Eduard Shevardnadze yesterday decreed a new structure and operating rules for the country's cabinet of ministers. The decree abolishes the position of prime... MORE
GEORGIA PURGES DISLOYAL OFFICERS.
The commander of Georgia's Internal Ministry troops, Maj. General Giya Taradze has been dismissed, and his deputy, Colonel Akaki Barbakadze, has been arrested. Taradze is... MORE
OUTLINE OF GEORGIAN-ABKHAZ COMPROMISE DISCLOSED.
Ignoring a vow of confidentiality, Abkhaz leader Vladislav Ardzinba and Supreme Soviet deputies have in the last three days exchanged public recriminations over a proposed... MORE
GEORGIAN PRESIDENT, PARLIAMENT INAUGURATE NEW ERA.
Eduard Shevardnadze yesterday took the oath of office as president of Georgia and was blessed by patriarch Ilia II in the cathedral of the country's... MORE
GEORGIAN-ABKHAZ TALKS BREAK DOWN.
Another round of Georgian-Abkhaz negotiations, in progress in Moscow under Russian and UN mediation since the beginning of the month, broke down yesterday. Two time... MORE
GEORGIA’S TEA LEAVES.
Georgia, which according to its own statistics used to produce 90 percent of the tea consumed in the former USSR, faces the danger of losing... MORE
GEORGIAN PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS MAXIMIZE SHEVARDNADZE’S STRENGTH.
Georgia's Central Electoral Commission released yesterday the official returns of the November 5 general elections. Eduard Shevardnadze won the presidency with 74.3 percent of the... MORE