Is Russia Preparing for a Second Major Assault on Georgia?
On August 22, Russian Deputy Defense Minister General Dmitry Bulgakov stated that as of the end of July, Russia had deployed 500 railway troops to... MORE
Russia Threatens Georgia With Renewed Trade War
The Russian government regularly uses its agency for consumer protection, Rospotrebnadzor, for trade discrimination and blocking imports from countries whose policies Moscow does not like... MORE
Political Bickering Over Georgian Financial Regulations Highlights Weaknesses in Country’s Political Culture
On July 31, Georgian President Giorgi Margvelashvili announced, with some degree of pomp and theatrical showmanship, that he was vetoing a highly controversial and widely... MORE
Georgia Establishes New State Security Service
In early July, the parliament of Georgia passed a law on establishing the State Security Service (Civil Georgia, July 4). The new body will decouple... MORE
Threats to Georgian Pipeline Security: What is Moscow’s Game?
Russia’s latest incursions from the breakaway Georgian territory of South Ossetia into adjacent territory heretofore controlled by Georgia have given rise to renewed security concerns... MORE
Russia’s Border Marking in Georgia Is Part of Broader Strategy
By George TsereteliOver the past two weeks the issue of Georgia’s so-called “border” with the Russian-occupied breakaway region of South Ossetia has again garnered attention.... MORE
Turkmenistan Boosts Ties With Georgia in Anticipation of Strategic Transit Corridor
Turkmenistan’s President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov paid his first official visit to Georgia on July 2–3. The most important topics of the meeting between Berdimuhamedov and his... MORE
Russia Annexes Additional Georgian Lands, Closing in on the Strategic East-West Highway
On July 10, the Russian occupation forces in the separatist territory of South Ossetia (Tskhinvali region) moved the occupation line deeper into Georgia, thus effectively... MORE
Why Are Georgians Afraid of Greece’s Financial Default?
Georgians have shown a keen interest in the events in far-away Greece, which has been on the verge of leaving the Eurozone, if not the... MORE
In the Face of Recent Russian-Abkhaz Disagreements, is Georgian-Abkhaz Dialogue Possible?
In the Russian-occupied Georgian region of Abkhazia, the last couple weeks of June 2015 were dominated by news of an unusual spat between the typically... MORE