Georgia Risks De Facto Recognition of Breakaway Regions by Opening Direct Talks
Georgian citizen Archil Tatunashvili died in custody in breakaway Tskhinvali Region (South Ossetia), on February 23 (Civil Georgia, February 23). Subsequently, the de-facto authorities have... MORE
US Ambassador Urges Georgia to Better Communicate its Pro-Western Agenda
On February 20, the US Ambassador to Georgia, Ian Kelly, took part in the opening of the Strategic Communication Training program for Georgian public servants.... MORE
Georgia Moves to Adopt ‘Total Defense’ Posture
The Georgian Parliament endorsed in its first hearing the country’s new military reserve system, concluding a nearly year-long working process on its reform (Civil Georgia, January 30, 2017;... MORE
Azerbaijan Becomes Monopoly Supplier of Natural Gas to Georgia
In January, the Georgian Ministry of Economy and Sustainable Development approved its annual energy assessment (balance), which shows that Georgia will not purchase any natural... MORE
Russia and Georgia Disagree Over North-South ‘Trade Corridors’
Zurab Abashidze, the Georgian prime minister’s special representative to Russia, held a meeting with Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin in Prague, on January 31,... MORE
Georgia Detains Five Alleged Supporters of the Chatayev Terrorist Group
On January 27, residents of Georgia’s northeastern village of Duisi, in Pankisi gorge, largely populated by Kists, a 40,000-strong ethnic minority related to the Chechen... MORE
A One-Armed IS Warlord and the Problem of Militant Returnees in Georgia
On November 22, 2017, Ahmed Chataev, the leader of a Russian-speaking faction of Islamic State (IS), was killed, along with two other militants, during a... MORE
A Year in Review: Georgian Government Struggles With Multiple Crises in 2017, While Cementing Its Grip on Power
Taking into consideration post-Soviet Georgia’s usually dramatic political life, the year 2017 was not particularly spectacular domestically or internationally. And yet, there were certain developments... MORE
Special Operation in Tbilisi Highlights Risk of Terrorism by Returning Fighters in Georgia
Georgia recently carried out one of the most significant counter-terrorism operations of the past several years. On the evening of November 21, several special forces... MORE
United States Considers Supplying Anti-Tank Weapons to Georgia
The news that, on November 20, the US State Department had approved the sale of Javelin anti-tank missiles to Georgia (Dsca.mil, November 20), caused euphoria... MORE