The Jamestown Foundation on April 26 flatly rejected an April 24 report by Russian newspaper Izvestia that suggested the foundation had connections to alleged Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev.

Georgian authorities are holding talks with Moscow about easing visa regulations for Georgian businessmen, Georgian Agriculture Minister David Kirvalidze said April 22, RIA Novosti reported April 23.

More than 10,000 supporters of Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili rallied in Tbilisi on April 19, the first mass demonstration since the defeat of the president's United National Movement party in parliamentary elections in 2012, AFP and Reuters reported.

The United States Chamber of Commerce is considering a petition, brought by the United States Federation of Labor, on the issue of stripping Georgia of preferential permissions to export goods to the United States at zero rate, Trend reported March 28.

South Ossetia's parliament will discuss the official language of South Ossetia on March 28, a lawmaker said, Vestnik Kavkaza reported March 22.

As many as 150 workers at the Dzidziguri mine in Georgia have gone on strike, Trend news agency reported March 15.

Russia's consumer watchdog, Rospotrebnadzor, has approved the registration of products in Russia from 36 Georgian wineries and four Georgian producers of mineral water, Voice of Russia and RIA Novosti reported March 6.

An envoy for Georgian Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili and a high official in Russia's Foreign Ministry will meet in Prague on March 1 to discuss restoring air transportation links between their countries, Vestnik Kavkaza reported Feb. 27, citing News Georgia.

A six-member group from Rospotrebnadzor, a Russian supervisory agency for consumer goods, will begin inspecting Georgian companies Feb. 26, Interpress News reported, citing the head of Georgia's national wine agency.