Clinton Endorses Georgia’s Integration with the West
By David IberiOn October 6-10, 2010, a high-level Georgian delegation headed by Prime Minister Nika Gilauri held important meetings in Washington, DC with top-level representatives... MORE
U.S., Georgia Hold Meeting Under Strategic Partnership Charter
The second annual meeting under the US-Georgia Charter on Strategic Partnership was held on October 6 in Washington. Led by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton... MORE
NATO Secretary-General Pays Unedifying Visit To Georgia
Thirteen months into his tenure, NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen travelled to Georgia, the number one troop-contributing country on a per capita basis to NATO’s... MORE
Russia Intensifying Annexation of Georgian Territories
By David IberiOn September 29, 2010, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia made a statement accusing the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) troops stationed... MORE
Georgian, Russian Churches at Odds over Sovereignty Issue
By David IberiOn September 19, 2010, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill I, sent a letter to Eduard Kokoity, a Russian-appointed leader... MORE
FSB Accuses Georgia of Aiding al-Qaeda in the North Caucasus
Insurgent violence has continued unabated in the North Caucasus this week, with five federal servicemen dying in a shootout with insurgents in Chechnya yesterday (February... MORE
Georgia’s Focus on Regional Cooperation: Modernization by Example and Engagement
By David IberiDespite the Russian invasion in August 2008 and the ongoing occupation of 20 percent of Georgian territory, Tbilisi focuses more on the future... MORE
U.S. Policy on Defense Assistance to Georgia: Neither Yes or No, Perhaps Sometimes
While US assistance for Georgia’s defense remains frozen, Moscow is ignoring objections to its own arms deliveries to Russia’s friends. Most recently in Washington, Russian... MORE
Russia Inhibits U.S. Defense Assistance to Georgia
Visiting Washington on September 15-17, Russian Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov asked for the US to consider military equipment sales to Russia. Conversely, Serdyukov announced despite... MORE
Georgia Seeks International Condemnation of Ethnic Cleansing on Its Territory
By David IberiOn September 15-20, Chairman of Georgian Parliament David Bakradze had important meetings in Washington, DC with high-ranking officials in U.S. Congress and the... MORE