ALL ARTICLES - GEORGIA

EU uses Ukraine-tested communicators to spread message in Georgia 

As Brussels comes closer to its decision on Georgia's bid for European Union membership amid the challenging security situation, it has hired no less than five communications experts to convey its narrative in the country.

FSB keeps close watch on Caucasian borders 

The FSB's border patrol is hard at work in the highly volatile Caucasus region, along Russian borders with Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia. The number of control sites is growing and growing.

• IRAQ - PKK renews high command's mandate and reaffirms strategic priorities

• FRANCE - DGSI's role in counterterrorism secured

• RUSSIA/CHINA - Beijing counts on Russia to promote SCO

• USA/GEORGIA - Washington confirms its commitment to Tbilisi

• FRANCE/UKRAINE - Florence Parly sticks to low estimate on Paris's Ukraine spending

• PALESTINE/ISRAEL/TURKEY: ANKARA AND TEL AVIV ARE TALKING AGAIN - to Hamas's dismay
  

• FRANCE - GPIS, Paris's social housing security service provider, collects intelligence for the police
  

• GEORGIA - NATO's ex-liaison officer in Kyiv takes up residence in Tbilisi
  

• SAUDI ARABIA/IRAQ - The General Intelligence Presidency reopens talks with the Anbar tribes to try to block Iran.

• FRANCE - Intelligence expert Floran Vadillo is advising French presidential candidate Anne Hidalgo.

• UNITED KINGDOM - Telecommunications surveillance champion Jeremy Wright joins the ISC as it battles for greater powers

• GEORGIA - The National Security Council gets a new chief of staff
  

Pro-Western parties in Kiev and Tbilisi look to build ties with Washington 

Ukrainian and Georgian partisans of a rapprochement with the West are hoping they can make headway now that Biden is in the White House. However times have changed since the 2000s, when membership of NATO still seemed possible.

NATO helps Georgia with cybersecurity 

Merle Maigre, the former head of NATO's Cooperative Cyber Defence

Tbilisi asks Washington for cryptographic aid 

According to our sources, Georgia is looking to strengthen its

USSOCOM soldiers at the Russian border 

In August this year, US Special Operations Command is scheduled

Mikheil Saakashvili 

Mikheil Saakashvili, the former president of Georgia who now teaches

Ivanishvili "listens" to opposition  Free

New Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili's government, which has been in place for nine months, has adopted the same interception techniques

Kiev and Moscow battle for arms contracts 

Ukraine and Russia are slugging it out for a number of contracts in emerging nations.

PM abandons claim against government 

Georgia's billionnaire businessman Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili has called off

Security services undergo purge 

Bidzina Ivanishvili Georgia's new prime minister, has cleaned house in the country's security services. Some 200 officials have been kicked

Ivanishvili v the government 

Georgian billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili, whose coalition won the country's parliamentary