On December 5, as has been widely reported, the Russian Federation introduced a visa requirement for citizens of Georgia seeking to enter Russia. This development... MORE

At the beginning of February, Vakhtang Shamiladze, chairman of the subcommittee of the Georgian parliament for relations with the peoples of the North Caucasus, urged... MORE

On February 14, a delegation from the Russian Ministry for Emergency Situations arrived in Tbilisi, Georgia. Its goal was to attempt to come to agreement... MORE

Georgia's Ministry for Refugees and Settlement Issues, it was reported on April 15, has begun reregistering Chechen refugees living in the Pankisi Gorge region of... MORE

Agence France Presse noted on April 22 that the number of Chechen refugees remaining in Georgia's Pankisi Gorge had fallen sharply over the past year.... MORE

The Chechen issue seriously intruded into relations between Russia and Georgia over the past week, and the U.S. State Department was required once again to... MORE

On July 31, Philip T. Reeker, Deputy Spokesman for the U.S. Department of State, had underlined in Washington: "As we've made clear previously, the United... MORE

On September 20, the website Grani.ru, citing Interfax, reported the results of a September 17-19 poll taken in Moscow by the All Russian Center for... MORE

The October 9 issue of Gazeta.ru featured written replies by Russian presidential aide and chief spokesman for issues relating to Chechnya Sergei Yastrzhembsky to questions... MORE