It might be a case of better late than never. Georgia is due to receive its first batch of Swine Flu vaccine, just as the influenza season is drawing to a close.
The panic over Imedi TV's phony Russian invasion report may be gone, but questions remain about its long-term effects on popular support for Georgia's government and opposition.
The actors performing Shakespeare's Twelfth Night at Tbilisi's Rustaveli Theatre on March 13 at first tried to ignore the whispers in the audience that began just as the curtain went up. But 10 minutes into the performance, spectator emotions about an Imedi TV report that Russia had invaded Georgia and toppled President Mikheil Saakashvili overtook the drama on stage.
Internet users in Azerbaijan began experiencing problems accessing Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty's Azeri-language website the day after the news service posted its coverage of a Washington Post story about alleged real estate transactions involving the children of Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, the head of the station's Azerbaijani service tells EurasiaNet.
Not long after Georgian luger Nodar Kumaritashvili's fatal February 12 accident at the Vancouver Winter Olympics, a crowd started to gather outside his parents' small house in the Georgian mountain town of Bakuriani. Hours went by, but nobody dared to wake Kumaritashvili's parents and tell them that their 21-year-old son's first Olympic competition had proven to be his last.
With chances for reconciliation with Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili close to non-existent, Russia appears to be trying to gain political currency with ordinary Georgians via a cooperation pact with Georgia's former-premier-turned-opposition leader Zurab Noghaideli.
Officials in Georgia believe that Kremlin skullduggery has succeeded in pulling the plug on a Georgian satellite television channel capable of broadcasting Russian-language content throughout the former Soviet Union.
Officials in Georgia believe that Kremlin skullduggery has succeeded in pulling the plug on a Georgian satellite television channel capable of broadcasting Russian-language content throughout the former Soviet Union.
Erosi Kitsmarishvili, the man who changed Georgian television and who helped spark the 2003 revolution that brought President Mikheil Saakashvili to power, now claims he can unseat Saakashvili with the help of a tiny Tbilisi television channel.
Four days before the anniversary of Georgia's 2008 war with Russia, a flurry of phantom attacks along the border between Georgian-controlled territory and separatist South Ossetia is stoking concerns in Tbilisi about the possibility of renewed conflict.
