Police officers in the former Soviet republic of Georgia used to be known for being corrupt and inefficient. One of the first acts of the new government was to fire nearly 55,000 police. New officers ...

Georgia once produced the bulk of Soviet Union's tea Production fell by 99% after Soviet Union broke up Small producers focus on quality to revive niche industry ANASEULI, Georgia, July 18 (Reuters) - ...

Vladislav Ardzinba, 64, who led the breakaway Georgian province of Abkhazia to de facto independence through a bloody war and ethnic cleansing, died March 4 at a clinic in Moscow. No cause of death ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — The ruling party in ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

When Soviet president and Communist party secretary Mikhail Gorbachev introduced the policies of perestroika (reconstruction) and glasnost (openness) in the mid-1980s, it marked the beginning of ...

MOSCOW – Standing before tens of thousands of cheering Georgians in the capital, Tbilisi, President Bush yesterday hailed the former Soviet republic’s young democracy as a “beacon of liberty” that is ...

TBILISI, Georgia -- All of Georgia was without power for the entire day on Monday, and officials in the impoverished former Soviet republic were struggling to determine the cause of the blackout.

ANASEULI, Georgia (Reuters) -When Lika Megreladze was a child, life in her native western Georgian region of Guria revolved around tea. Her mother worked for decades as a scientist at the Soviet Union ...