The government of Abkhazia said July 8 that Georgia resumed the flights of its unmanned aircraft. If the spy planes were spotted there indeed, it means that Georgia aims to exacerbate the situation in the region. However, Mikhail Saakashvili, the nation’s sitting president, is unable to wage another large-scale war. He won’t be allowed to

Georgia is ready to consider an opportunity to deploy a US army base on its territory in case Washington makes such an offer. After the authorities of Kyrgyzstan decided to close the Manas air base, it was reported that Washington was looking for another air base location.

Georgia’s President Mikhail Saakashvili supposedly hit Georgian Prime Minister Grigola Mgaloblishvili in the face and threw a phone at him. The subject of Mr. Saakashvili’s mental state has surfaced again in connection with the news report. The incident took place last week. Russian psychiatrist Mikhail Vinogradov said after the military crisis in South Ossetia in August of 2008 that Mr. Saakashvili was a mentally unbalanced individual, who had been terribly frightened by what he had done

Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili was aware of Vladimir Putin’s intention “to hang him by the balls” during the armed conflict in the Caucasus in August. Saakashvili, who arrived in Paris Thursday for a meeting with his French counterpart, confirmed that he knew about the notorious conversation, which supposedly took place between Nicolas Sarkozy and Vladimir Putin

The Russian ambassador to Georgia and a group of Russian diplomats left the country yesterday on September 30. The plane with the European Union foreign policy chief, Javier Solana, landed at the airport of Tbilisi in less than an hour. Russia’s ambassador to Georgia, Vyacheslav Kovalenko, and 20 officers of the diplomatic mission and their family members embarked an Il-62 jetliner to return home due to the termination of diplomatic relations between Russia and Georgia

The prime minister of the Russian government said that certain non-governmental organizations in Russia were involved in a process to separate several republics from Russia if the latter had not defended South Ossetia.

Russia introduced a draft resolution to the UN Security Council on the non-militarization of Georgia. The document stipulates a complete blockade of arms shipments and military materials to Georgia. Russia’s ambassador to the United Nations, Vitaly Churkin, stated that such a measure would stabilize the situation with Abkhazia and South Ossetia.

The truce between official authorities of Georgia and its opposition is over. Some parties urge the nation to unite to create new Georgia. Others say that the country will have no future under Saakashvili regime. Many Georgian politicians say that the country must return to the Russian Internet, to refuse from the NATO integration and elect a new president.

Russia Today TV channel journalists, who worked in the city of Tskhinvali, accuse CNN of forgery in the coverage of the conflict between Georgia and South Ossetia. The statement was made by a correspondent of Russia Today, Nikolai Baranov, during a round table discussion devoted to the recent events in the Caucasus.

Russia will officially announce the establishment of diplomatic relations with South Ossetia and Abkhazia on September 9. The issue became the major subject of discussion over the weekend, when S. Ossetian leader Eduard Kokoity and his Abkhazian counterpart Sergei Bagapsh visited Moscow for City Day festivities.