This was true of Zviad Gamsakhurdia, Georgia’s first postcommunist president; Eduard Shevardnadze, once admired in the west as Mikhail Gorbachev’s far-sighted Soviet foreign minister ...

Then there was President Zviad Gamsakhurdia and they organised a coup d'etat against him. Then we had Eduard Shevardnadze. Some people say that he was the most important aide to Gorbachev.

The western Georgian city of Kutaisi will enjoy “international-standard” infrastructure at four of its tennis courts after ...

Soviet - later Russian - peacekeepers are deployed. 1991 - Georgia declares its independence and Zviad Gamsakhurdia is elected president. He is deposed in a coup and a brief civil war lasts until ...

Georgia's first post-Soviet president, Zviad Gamsakhurdia, was ousted during a civil war in 1992. Tensions are running high in the country of 4.5 million people on Russia's southern border ...

in Georgia where the government was fighting a two-sided struggle against Abkhazian separatists and against the forces of ousted President Zviad Gamsakhurdia, and in Tajikistan where fierce clan ...

Forces fighting to oust Georgian President Zviad Gamsakhurdia stepped up their attacks on New Year's Eve, shattering hopes of a holiday peace in the capital... FAA awards $1.6 billion contract to ...

He illuminates the part played recently by two politicians, both KGB men but with very different destinies: Zviad Gamsakhurdia, an ultranationalistic demagogue who died in exile; and Eduard ...

Soviet - later Russian - peacekeepers are deployed. 1991 - Georgia declares its independence and Zviad Gamsakhurdia is elected president. He is deposed in a coup and a brief civil war lasts until ...

In 2024, Georgia introduced its contentious "transparency on foreign influence" bill - often dubbed the "foreign agents law".

Situated at the strategically important crossroads where Europe meets Asia. Over the centuries, Georgia was the object of rivalry between Persia, Turkey and Russia, before being eventually annexed ...