GEORGIANS TO PAY FOR RUSSIAN BORDER GUARDS.
Tbilisi will pay two billion rubles to Moscow to support Russian border guards in Georgia, the BGI agency said May 30. Moreover, the Georgian parliament... MORE
GEORGIA REOPENS SOVIET-ERA BASES.
Tbilisi has agreed to reopen two old radar stations and anti-aircraft sites as part of its agreement with Moscow on Russian basing, Georgian radio said... MORE
GEORGIAN OFFICIAL: WE STEAL ARMENIAN GAS.
A Georgian deputy premiertold an Armenian newspaper May 28 that Tbilisi had concluded "there isnot enough gas for us, and we steal yours." According to... MORE
GEORGIA MOVING TOWARD FEDERALISM.
At a meeting of the Georgianconstitutional convention, President Eduard Shevardnadze said thatTbilisi was prepared to federalize the country, Interfax reported May29. He said that Abkhazia... MORE
DON’T GIVE BIRTH IN GEORGIA.
Tbilisi authorities have established new chargesfor delivering a baby at a state hospital, Krasnaya zvezda said May 16. Nowmothers will have to pay $107 for... MORE
A KEY TROUBLE SPOT: THE BORDER SEPARATING GEORGIA AND CHECHNYA.
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
CHECHEN REFUGEES IN GEORGIA.
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
REFUGEES IN GEORGIA DON’T WANT TO GO HOME.
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
REFUGEES IN GEORGIA REGISTERED INTO DATABASE.
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
REFUGEES IN GEORGIA GOING HOME, OR ELSEWHERE.
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