- 13:28 14/04/2009
Georgian opposition activists, in their sixth day of street protests demanding the resignation of President Mikheil Saakashvili, put up tents in front of his official Tbilisi residence on Tuesday. 
- 12:34 14/04/2009
- 20:53 13/04/2009
Thousands of Georgians moved their protests to the presidential residence on Monday to press on with demands for President Mikheil Saakashvili to resign.
- 18:37 13/04/2009
Georgia's political opposition, demanding the president's resignation, will erect fake jail cells at sites across Tbilisi to symbolize the country turning into a police state, a leader said on Monday.
- 15:30 13/04/2009
Activists from the pro-Kremlin youth group Nashi (Ours) sent on Monday an airline ticket to Washington and luggage containing rotten roses for Georgia's pro-Western leader, a group member said.
- 12:19 12/04/2009
The Georgian opposition said on Sunday it would continue its peaceful protest demanding the resignation of President Mikheil Saakashvili, despite its previous decision to hold a break for a religious holiday.
- 18:10 11/04/2009
Opposition protests are due to continue in Georgia on Monday, the leader of the Georgia's Path movement said at a meeting outside the country's parliament on Saturday.
- 21:48 10/04/2009
Tens of thousands of protesters blocked the main roads of Georgia's capital on Friday evening, in a civil disobedience campaign to force President Mikheil Saakashvili to resign.
- 13:45 10/04/2009
Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili made it clear on Friday he would not cede to opposition demands that he resign, as protests continued in the capital.
- 20:44 19/11/2007
Georgia's opposition will hold a rally in the capital on Sunday to demand that the government allow independent Imedi TV company to resume broadcasts, the leader of the People's Party said on Monday.
- 11:21 19/11/2007
Georgian police used special panic-inducing acoustic systems to disperse an opposition rally in central Tbilisi on November 7, Russian NTV channel said on Sunday.
- 10:57 16/11/2007
Georgia's parliament has approved an initiative from President Mikheil Saakashvili to end on Friday the nationwide state of emergency imposed last week following mass anti-government rallies.
- 20:07 15/11/2007
Russia's Foreign Ministry on Thursday dismissed Georgia's early presidential elections set for January 5 as a deceptive maneuver designed to keep the current leadership in power.
- 14:03 14/11/2007
A 15-day state of emergency imposed in Georgia amid mass anti-government rallies last week will be lifted on Friday, the parliament's speaker said on Wednesday.
- 18:03 13/11/2007
Georgia intends to spend some $12 million from government reserves on early presidential elections and a parallel referendum on parliamentary polls set for January 5, the finance minister said Tuesday.
- 19:02 12/11/2007
Georgia's opposition said on Monday that lawmaker and wine businessman Levan Gachechiladze would run in the January 5 early presidential elections as its single candidate.
- 17:35 10/11/2007
Georgian opposition leader Shalva Natelashvili has applied for the United States to grant political asylum to his family, his party spokeswoman said Saturday.
- 22:13 09/11/2007
- 22:02 09/11/2007
Georgia's attempts to blame Moscow for the mass anti-president street protests in Tbilisi have severely aggravated bilateral relations, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Friday.
- 20:39 09/11/2007
A 15-day state of emergency imposed in Georgia on Wednesday amid mass anti-government rallies could be lifted ahead of time, the chief of the presidential staff said on Friday.
- 19:56 09/11/2007
The Georgian Prosecutor General's Office said on Friday it suspects billionaire Badri Patarkatsishvili, who supports the opposition, of plotting to overthrow the government by force.
- 18:49 09/11/2007
Georgia's parliament formally approved a nationwide state of emergency on Friday, which President Mikheil Saakashvili declared amid mass anti-government protests two days ago.
- 15:07 09/11/2007
Georgia's opposition will nominate a single candidate for January's early presidential elections, which were announced on Thursday after six days of mass rallies in the capital, a party leader said.
- 21:56 08/11/2007
Four years after the 2003 "rose revolution" that propelled him to power, Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili is facing the same problems as his predecessor, Eduard Shevardnadze.
- 18:39 08/11/2007
The Russian Foreign Ministry has ordered three Georgian Embassy officials to leave the country in response to Georgian plans to expel Russian diplomats, the ministry's spokesman said on Thursday.
- 15:12 08/11/2007
Russia called events in Georgia, where a 15-day state of emergency was declared Wednesday night, a violation of human rights and democratic freedom, the Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Thursday.
- 11:02 08/11/2007
The speaker of Russia's lower house of parliament said on Thursday that Georgia's claim that the Kremlin orchestrated mass unrest in Tbilisi was prompted by the United States.
- 10:20 08/11/2007
Schools and universities in Georgia's capital have cancelled classes for Thursday and Friday, following the president's declaration of a 15-day nationwide state of emergency.
- 22:24 07/11/2007
Georgia's President Mikheil Saakashvili has issued a decree declaring a state of emergency in the country's capital, Tbilisi, Prime Minister Zurab Nogaideli said on Wednesday.
- 22:20 07/11/2007
Moscow is concerned over the emerging instability in Georgia, as protesters continue to demonstrate in the capital Tbilisi, and believes the Georgian people deserve better.
- 21:00 07/11/2007
Georgia's president said in a TV address to the nation Wednesday that Russia's special services were behind recent events in Tbilisi.
- 20:30 07/11/2007
Georgian riot police used water cannons and tear gas on Wednesday to disperse rallies of thousands of protesters demanding President Mikheil Saakashvili's resignation and early elections.
- 18:11 07/11/2007
Georgian riot police used water cannons and tear gas on Wednesday to disperse rallies of thousands of protesters demanding President Mikheil Saakashvili's resignation and early elections.
- 16:29 07/11/2007
American interference is aggravating relations between Georgia and its two breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, the chief of the Russian General Staff said on Wednesday.
- 14:47 07/11/2007
Georgian riot police used water cannons and tear gas to disperse several thousand protesters rallying outside the parliament building in central Tbilisi on Wednesday.
- 09:20 07/11/2007
Police in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, have cleared protestors calling for the resignation of President Mikheil Saakashvili away from the front of the parliament, local media reported.
- 17:29 06/11/2007
- 13:07 06/11/2007
Russia's foreign minister described the Georgian leadership's actions during the current opposition protests in the capital Tbilisi as a farce.
- 12:41 06/11/2007
A former Georgian defense minister, facing several charges in Georgia, has threatened revenge on President Mikheil Saakashvili should his family suffer as a result of his political statements.
- 17:19 05/11/2007
Thousands of opposition supporters protested for the fourth consecutive day in Georgia's capital on Monday demanding the president's resignation and earlier elections.
- 12:28 05/11/2007
Georgia's opposition resumed protests in the capital on Monday, demanding a decision to move back parliamentary elections be cancelled, as well as the president resign.
- 18:25 04/11/2007
Georgia's Defense Ministry said on Sunday that three aircraft allegedly penetrated its airspace from Russia.
- 17:13 03/11/2007
The united opposition in Georgia has reached an agreement to demand the president's resignation after several hours of debates on the second of day of massive protests in the capital Tbilisi.
- 12:16 03/11/2007
The united Georgian opposition is meeting with foreign ambassadors accredited in the country in an effort to secure support for their demands, a Republican Party leader said.
- 11:39 03/11/2007
Several thousand people have gathered in front of Georgian parliament on the second day of protests demanding early parliamentary elections next spring and the release of political prisoners.
- 21:50 02/11/2007
Georgia's parliamentary speaker said on Friday, after meeting with opposition groups against the backdrop of a massive rally in the capital, that authorities would not change the date of next year's elections set for the fall.
- 17:02 02/11/2007
Around 100,000 opposition supporters, more than during the 2003 'rose revolution,' are rallying in front of Tbilisi's parliament to demand early parliamentary polls, but are ruling out a new 'revolution.'
- 11:48 02/11/2007
Several hundred Georgian opposition supporters have gathered in front of parliament in Tbilisi for a sanctioned rally to demand parliamentary elections in spring 2008.
- 17:52 01/11/2007
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