Russian troops on August 20 entered the Black Sea port city of Poti for the second day in a row, reportedly stationing columns of armed vehicles at the city's main entrance and in an outlying district.
Call it a case of supremely bad timing. Among the economic casualties of the war with Russia are not only Georgia's ports and energy transportation grid, but its summer tourism industry, once considered an engine for economic growth.
The British Petroleum pipeline that brought Georgia into the international spotlight has been turned off after six days of sporadic Russian bombing in the country.
BP spokesperson Rusiko Medzmariashvili stated that the Baku-Supsa pipeline, the older of two BP pipelines that cross Georgia, has been shut down "as a precautionary measure." She did not specify a date for the decision.
The Georgian government is betting that a July 9-10 visit by United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to Tbilisi will help reduce tension with Moscow over the breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
The Georgian government is betting that a July 9-10 visit by United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to Tbilisi will help reduce tension with Moscow over the breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
Georgia's former Parliamentary Speaker Nino Burjanadze, a leader of the 2003 Rose Revolution, announced July 7 she was putting her political past behind her with the official opening of her new think-tank, the Foundation for Democracy and Development.
Georgian officials are insisting that the May 21 parliamentary voting in Georgia occurred under "normal conditions." But nothing seems to satisfy the country's querulous opposition leaders, who, even before the polls had closed, began lodging complaints about vote-rigging.
It has been billed as a test of Georgia's democratic credentials. But while Georgian officials have vowed that the May 21 parliamentary elections will be free and fair, an array of problems have surfaced in the days leading up to the polling, according to election observers.
A new political party that advocates a stronger role for the Georgian Orthodox Church is making waves on Georgia's political landscape on the eve of the country's May 21 parliamentary vote.
