This issue contains the following articles: Crime and Punishment in the Georgian Army,By Zurab Sparsiashvili, where author speaks about hard service conditions, ineffective educational policy caused by incompetence of officers, breaches of drafting procedures by enlistment offices, poor military discipline, the lack of professionalism on the part of officers, abuses of human rights in the armed forces; The situation is difficult but not hopeless, Interview with Ghia Baramidze by Lela Djandjalashvili covers the most significant February events - assassination attempt against Shevardnadze and raid on the UN Observer Mission in Zugdidi (western Georgia) which resulted in taking four UN observers hostage.

Issue contains also Military Chronicle,observing Assassination attempt against President of Georgia, Incident in western Georgia, The Army Life, The Army-building, Visits, Negotiations, Miscellany. The chronicle based on the information from the Georgian media. The issue followed with the Digest of the Georgian Press.

Published by: the Center for Civil-Military Relations and Security Studies; Caucasian Institute for Peace, Democracy and Development, Tbilisi, Georgia; Co-financed by: the European Community, TACIS Democracy Program and the European-Caucasian Economical Consulting. Editorial board: David Darchiashvili, Tamara Pataraia, Guram Dumbadze, Irakli Aladashvili.

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