Georgian lawmakers have confirmed Lado Gurgenidze as the country's new prime minister. President Mikhail Saakashvili nominated the banker last week in an effort to resolve the crisis that shook the country earlier this month.

Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili is expected to be nominated as his party’s candidate in an early election in January.

Georgia's president will step down on Sunday as he braces himself for early elections fixed for January 5 following mass street protests earlier this month, a presidential spokesman said on Thursday.

The railway that will link Georgia, Azerbaijan with Central Asia and Europe, bypassing Russia, was launched on Wednesday by the presidents of the former Soviet Republics and Turkey.

The Georgian opposition's single candidate to run in snap presidential elections blasted on Wednesday the incumbent president's ongoing clampdown on opponents.

The Russian Foreign Ministry said Wednesday that Russia had completed the withdrawal of its troops from Georgia almost a year early than the agreed deadline, despite Tbilisi's unfriendly foreign policy.

Georgian police used special panic-inducing acoustic systems to disperse an opposition rally in central Tbilisi on November 7, Russian NTV channel said on Sunday.

PanARMENIAN.Net has received information on details of a telephone conversation between Ministers of Interior of Georgia and Azerbaijan and an audio record of the conversation held presumably by Ministers on the eve of dispersal of the Georgian opposition’s rally.

The nationwide state of emergency imposed last week following mass anti-government rallies was lifted in Georgia on Friday.

Georgia's parliament has approved an initiative from President Mikheil Saakashvili to end on Friday the nationwide state of emergency imposed last week following mass anti-government rallies.

Russia says it withdrew its last troops based in Georgia Thursday, months ahead of schedule.

AKHALKALAK, Georgia (Armenpress)--Armenian schools in Javakhk rejected Armenian language and history textbooks prepared and published by the Georgian Ministry of Education for the seventh and 10th grade level.