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Authorities in Georgia on Friday tore down a monument to Soviet dictator Josef Stalin in his birthplace of Gori to make way for a memorial to the fallen in the Russian-Georgian war of 2008.
Elections Sunday for local positions across the former Soviet republic of Georgia will give voters their first chance to pass judgment, even if indirectly, on the president who led them in a disastrous war with Russia nearly two years ago.
The head of the Vancouver Olympics, an Olympic gold medalist and other dignitaries attended a ceremony Tuesday at the grave of the Georgian luger who died during a practice run at the games.
A nation that had hoped to watch one of its most promising young athletes compete in the Olympics gathered instead Saturday to mourn him, more than a week after the luger was thrown to his death in a practice run at the Vancouver Games.
The father of the Georgian luger killed at the Vancouver Olympics said Monday his son worried the track was too dangerous, but insisted on competing because he had come to the games to try to win.
A year after their soldiers helped repel Georgian troops battling for this separatist-held capital, South Ossetians say they are grateful for Russia's patronage and recognition of their independence claims.
Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili offered his opponents electoral reforms Monday, and called for political unity in the face of a common enemy — referring to Russia as an occupying foe with forces a few dozen kilometers (miles) from the capital.
U.S. Navy sailors and Georgian coast guard crews held training drills aboard an American warship visiting the former Soviet republic Wednesday in a show of support as tensions with neighboring Russia persist following last year's war.
A land mine explosion killed the driver of a Georgian medical aid vehicle that was accompanying European Union monitors patrolling a tense area Sunday near breakaway Abkhazia, police and EU officials said.
Georgian police clashed with opposition activists in the capital Monday, arresting dozens and beating demonstrators, along with several journalists.
NATO launched military exercises in former Soviet Georgia on Wednesday after heavy criticism from neighboring Russia and a brief mutiny in the Georgian military.
They hop around like bunnies to mock their president, step into cages to vent claims of political repression, and recite poetry at the top of their lungs.
Demonstrators set up tents outside the Georgian president's residence Monday, trying to turn up the heat on the fifth day of peaceful protests demanding Mikhail Saakashvili resign.
Georgia isn't likely to get many votes from Russia at this year's Eurovision Song Contest — not with a ditty that teases Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.
Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili's opponents on Thursday pressed their demand for his resignation in the wake of the August war with Russia, urging new elections and threatening protests in the coming months.
Georgia's opposition marked the Rose Revolution's fifth anniversary with a rally Sunday demanding the resignation of the uprising's leader — President Mikhail Saakashvili.
Georgian officials say about 70 militants from the breakaway province of South Ossetia illegally entered a village in Georgia.
It was a claim that could have provoked a dangerous Kremlin response: The United States is readying to take over airports and ports in the former Soviet republic of Georgia.
Russia and Georgia headed toward a wider war Saturday as Russian tanks rumbled into the contested province of South Ossetia and Russian aircraft bombed a Georgian town, escalating a conflict that already has left hundreds dead.
A news agency says the Russian navy has deployed ships to blockade Georgia's Black Sea coast.
Russian military aircraft have raided a Georgian town, leaving scores of civilians killed or wounded.
Georgian authorities on Wednesday released four Russian peacekeepers who were detained on charges of carrying unauthorized weapons to a buffer zone near the breakaway region of Abkhazia.
Opposition lawmakers refused to take their seats in Georgia's parliament Saturday, claiming that election-rigging had made it illegitimate.
Georgia's election commission says President Mikhail Saakashvili's party is on track for a huge majority in Parliament.
Tensions between Georgia and Russia got a jolt Thursday when a news agency quoted the head of the Russian air force as saying he favored putting military bases in a breakaway region of this former Soviet republic.
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