Abkhazia's incumbent separatist leader Raul Khajimba has rejected opposition demands for a new presidential election after disputing the results of a runoff in the breakaway Georgian region that gave him a slim victory.
Philip Reeker, acting assistant secretary for European and Eurasian affairs at the U.S. State Department, is scheduled to arrive in Georgia on September 6 to take part in the 2019 Tbilisi International Conference.
The common-law wife of a former Chechen fighter gunned down in Berlin says his killing bears the hallmarks of a professional hit job amid claims the suspect worked for Russian military intelligence. The killing has raised concerns about the safety of other Chechens seeking asylum in Germany.
The hit movie franchise The Fast And The Furious has been filming scenes for its latest movie in the Georgian town of Rustavi. Our cameras were there as an armored truck plowed though cars and a helicopter flew overhead.
U.S. President Donald Trump has announced his intention to nominate career diplomat Kelly Degnan as the new U.S. ambassador to Georgia, a post that has been vacant for nearly a year and a half.
Georgia's ruling party, Georgian Dream, has nominated Interior Minister Giorgi Gakharia as its candidate for prime minister.
Georgian Prime Minister Mamuka Bakhtadze has announced his resignation after little more than a year in the position, saying he had fulfilled the mandate he was given.
The international community sought to defuse rising tensions between Georgia and its breakaway region of South Ossetia, as Tbilisi said it had observed a "mobilization of military equipment and personnel" in the separatist region after an ultimatum issued by the Russia-backed territory expired.
Measles cases in Europe are soaring, with four countries losing their elimination status due to outbreaks, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
Dozens of mourners buried the body of Zelimkhan Khangoshvili his native Georgian village of Duisi almost a week after the former Chechen commander was gunned down in Berlin.
A Georgian national, Zelimkhan Khangoshvili, who was shot dead in Berlin last week, has been buried in his native village of Duisi in Georgia's Pankisi Gorge, the home of ethnic Chechens known as Kists.
In his former life, Zelimkhan Khangoshvili was a commander of a Chechen unit that battled Russian troops during the Second Chechen War. In his later years, he was dogged by fears he was being hunted -- possibly by Russian agents, possibly by Chechens. Last week, he was gunned down in Berlin. He's not the first Chechen to be killed abroad under suspicious circumstances.
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