In Georgia, transformation isn't fast enough for some
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TBILISI, Georgia -- The old white Zhiguli fairly flew down the highway, skimming precariously over the potholes as Garri Nersesov clutched the wheel and declared victory in the war on corruption.
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TELAVI, Georgia -- Before his helicopter touches down, Mikheil Saakashvili already has his hand on the door handle. A bodyguard leans forward but can't restrain him long; within seconds, Misha, as Georgia's former president and now campaigning candidate is informally known, has jumped out, ducked...
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Georgian leader Mikhail Saakashvili is likely to scrape an election win on Saturday in a vote the West will scrutinize for fairness, but polls differ on whether his victory will be big enough to avoid a second round.
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Just beating Louisiana State wasn't enough to satisfy Georgia. The Bulldogs dominated L.S.U. on Saturday afternoon.
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Electricity shortages regularly threw Georgia into darkness before Mikhail Saakashvili was elected president four years ago and set out to transform the bankrupt former Soviet republic into a modern European state.
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The number of southern U.S. evangelical Christians is not growing as fast as the wider population, leading to a renewed effort to win converts on the domestic front from key groups like the Hispanic community.
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Sometimes in Washington it takes a while for issues to ripen. Sometimes decades.
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As Georgians celebrate the Rose Revolution's first anniversary, Mr Saakashvili still has to deliver.
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Democrats' hopes of retaining a Senate seat in Georgia are fading fast and such a loss could deal a fatal blow to the party's chances of regaining control of the Senate.
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No one passing the thousands of protesters crowding Kiev's main street asks why Georgian flags are waving in Ukraine &#151; the parallels with Georgia's "Rose Revolution" are strong, even eerie.
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ATLANTA - It&#39;s been a long time coming but the state&#39;s financial picture, at least on the income side, is brightening, state officials said Thursday.
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Mikhail Saakashvili's populist ride has hit bumps on the central question of reunification with two breakaway regions.
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For the waitress working in a busy Tbilisi cafe a few days before Georgia votes in a presidential election, the economic revival under President Mikhail Saakashvili is not all it is made out to be.
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A 3-point increase in average scores has moved Georgia out of the cellar in the annual SAT rankings. After two years of finishing last in the nation among states, Georgia&#39;s slight improvements and a slip in
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TBILISI, Georgia, Jan. 6 -- Supporters of Georgia's former president Mikheil Saakashvili began celebrating late Saturday as preliminary exit polls indicated he would narrowly avoid a runoff in this former Soviet republic's presidential election.
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Townspeople had a hard time squaring an unsavory past with their wholesome self-image.
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MOSCOW (CP) - War clouds are gathering over the former Soviet Caucasus region as Georgia's U.S.-backed President Mikheil Saakashvili moves to re-unite his fractured nation by pressuring two separatist provinces that have close ties to Russia.