"Aslan has fled. Ajaria is free," were the first words of Mr Saakashvili's address to the nation. Last November, Mr Saakashvili led a peaceful revolution that ousted former President Eduard ...

“Ajaria has totally isolated itself,” Ivan Merabishvili, head of Georgia‘s Security Council, told Rustavi-2 television. “This shows that Aslan Abashidze and his regime is in their final agony.

Georgia gives Ajaria deadline. Georgia’s government gave Ajaria’s rebel leader Aslan Abashidze three hours to avoid bloodshed, demanding he end his 14-year grip on power.

Ajaria's return to Georgian control comes just months into his presidency. People in the crowd chanted his nickname - Misha - and waved the country's new red and white flag, as what had been protest ...

As it seeks to consolidate its authority, Georgia's provisional leadership is confronting a host of political, economic and diplomatic challenges. How to handle the autonomous region of Ajaria is ...

Ajaria, which is located at the southwestern tip of Georgia on the Black Sea and next to Turkey, has an estimated population of 500,000 of whom at least 60 per cent are ethnic Ajar Muslims.

The leader of Georgia's autonomous region of Ajaria and the government of Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili were in talks Wednesday as street protests against the provincial leader in Batumi ...

Ajaria to Elect New Supreme Council - 2004-06-20 October 29, 2009 9:26 PM ...

While allegations of misconduct and ineptitude marred Georgia's November 2 parliamentary vote, the elections in the autonomous region of Ajaria proceeded with striking, almost suspicious, efficiency. ...

Ajaria is technically an autonomous region within Georgia, yet it operates beyond Tbilisi's control. Abashidze maintains paramilitary units and refuses to pay Georgian taxes.

The Armenian government was taking urgent measures on Monday to minimize the economic fallout from a renewed standoff between Georgia’s central government and the restive region of Ajaria that ...