Adjaria, a tiny region of roughly 3,000 square kilometers, shares a boundary with Turkey, which used to be controlled by Adjaria's own border-guard troops. It remains unclear who is in charge of ...

"We had a meeting of the Security Council where we have decided, one last time, to give a deadline to [Adjar leader] Aslan Abashidze," Saakashvili said. "We will give him 10 days to return to ...

For the time being at least, a war of words rather than bullets has ensued between the breakaway Georgian republic of Abkhazia and the Saakashvili regime in Tbilisi. As soon as the Tbilisi central ...

VOA's Brent Hurd traveled to the Adjarian capital of Batumi to examine life under strongman Aslan Abashidze. Batumi is a premiere vacation spot on the Black Sea coast. Its lush subtropical climate and ...

On May 6, Aslan Abashidze fled his fiefdom of Adjaria to a comfortable exile in Russia, thereby averting clashes between his local militia and the Georgian army. In the long term, the deposing of the ...

Georgian officials say every effort is being made to find a peaceful resolution to the latest tensions with the autonomous Adjaria region. The situation degraded sharply over the weekend, with Adjaria ...

3 May 2004 (RFE/RL) -- Tensions between Georgia's central authorities and the breakaway Adjar Autonomous Republic are mounting in the wave of an ultimatum delivered yesterday by Georgian President ...