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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 1993 ...