Furthermore, RFE/RL’s Echo of the Caucasus reports that in August 2008, Tatunashvili was serving as part of the Georgian peacekeeping contingent in Iraq, and therefore could not have ...

Nikita Zhuravel, a Russian political prisoner who was beaten by the teenage son of Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov while in pretrial detention, has been sentenced to 13 1/2 years in prison on a high ...

c. 1220-1330s - Mongol invasions and occupations of the Caucasus. 1299-1302 - George V of Georgia defeats the Mongols and restores the Georgian kingdom. After his death, Georgia disintegrates ...