“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.

"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 ...

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.

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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 ...

In 1878 Ajaria was annexed by Russia and, following the Bolshevik revolution, incorporated into Georgia as an autonomous republic within the USSR. Under Stalin, Islam, like Christianity, was ...

Aslan Abashidze's peaceful departure from power in the Georgian territory of Ajaria marks a significant victory President Mikheil Saakashvili and his effort to reunify the country. At the outset of ...

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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 ...

Under Aslan Abashidze, Mr Varshalomidze's predecessor as Ajaria's boss, the crossing often took an hour and several bribes. Mr Varshalomidze bears little resemblance to the grizzly strongmen who ...