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Georgian Defense Minister David Sikharulidze attended the opening ceremony of NATO exercise which kicked off in Viziani base on May 11. Before the ceremony, NATO representatives said they the Alliance will not sever relations with Russia, although its position is not understandable, Civil.ge reported. The exercise will last till June …

Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili agreed to meet opposition leaders on Monday after a month of street protests in the former Soviet republic. Clashes on Wednesday between police and protesters, a day after a brief, bloodless mutiny at a tank base outside Tbilisi, have fuelled fears of wider anti-government unrest in …

MOSCOW Georgian troops did not attack Russian peacekeepers in South Ossetia during Tbilisi’s assault on the separatist republic in August 2008, Georgia’s president said Monday on Ekho Moskvy radio. “With full responsibility I can say there were never any and there could not have been any attacks on Russian peacekeepers,” …

Loyalty to a common historical heritage could help mend ties between ex-Soviet Georgia and Russia damaged by a brief war last August, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev told Georgian World War Two veterans on Friday. In a special message to the veterans, Medvedev recalled the Soviet Union’s role during the war …

TBILISI Georgia’s opposition agreed to talks with the government yesterday after month-long street protests spilled over into violence in the former Soviet republic, the focus of tensions between the West and Russia. The agreement followed the intervention of Georgia’s influential Orthodox Church leader and an appeal from the European Union …

TBILISI Georgian counterintelligence officers detained former head of the Coordinating headquarters of the NATO Partnership for Peace plan Irakly Batkuashvili on suspicion of espionage, his lawyer Onise Mebonia said on Thursday. 

TBILISI The EU and Georgia’s influential Orthodox Church leader urged political forces in the former Soviet republic to step back from the brink yesterday after weeks of protests against the president flared into violence. 

TBILISI NATO began military exercises in Georgia on Wednesday in a move Russia said threatened stability in the region just nine months after a war between the former Soviet neighbours.

Georgian opposition may really block border checkpoints in case Mikheil Saakashvili fails to meet their demand. But the opposition does not yet take any step in that direction, Georgian political scientist and project manager of Development and Cooperation Centre Paata Zakereishvili told a PanARMENIAN.Net correspondent.

May 5 (Bloomberg) — Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili called on about 500 mutineers at a military base near the central city of Gori to surrender and said talks are under way with the organizers of the rebellion. “This is a serious challenge, and we accept this challenge,” Saakashvili said today …