<div><p>Authorities in Georgia are coming under increasing fire for manipulating the media, especially television news, damaging President Mikheil Saakashvili's reputation as a democratic reformer.</p><p>The accusations from press-freedom groups and the country's opposition come as Georgia wages a legal and public-relations battle in Europe against what ...

<div><p>Games chiefs insisted Thursday the luge track is safe following fresh criticism from the Georgian Olympic Committee that inadequate safety was to blame for the death of a young luger.</p><p>It follows previous concerns expressed by the family of Nodar Kumaritashvili and Georgian officials over the Whistler Sliding ...

<div id="subtitle">Russia to station military base in Georgia's rebel republic of Abkhazia</div><div><p>President Dmitry Medvedev says Russia is to station a permanent military base in Georgia's breakaway republic of Abkhazia.</p><p>Abkhazia and South Ossetia, another separatist-held part of Georgia ...