Chronicle
| 17 February 2009 |
Georgian Foreign Minister Grigol Vashadze visits Poland |
| 17 February 2009 |
Col. Koba Lachkepiani appointed as new commander of the land forces in Georgia |
| 18 February 2009 |
Georgian Foreign Minister Grigol Vashadze says that Georgia will send troops to Afghanistan |
| 19 February 2009 |
Azerbaijani Russian-language website day.az is shut down |
| 20 February 2009 |
Georgian Foreign Minister Grigol Vashadze visits Armenia |
| 23 February 2009 |
Prime Minister of breakaway republic of Abkhazia Alexandr Ankvab visits Moscow |
| 23 February 2009 |
Activists collecting signatures to protest a referendum on presidential term limits in Azerbaijan are arrested in Baku |
| 24 February 2009 |
The EU’s special representative to the South Caucasus Peter Semneby meets Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian and opposition leader Levon Ter-Petrossian on a visit to Armenia |
| 24 February 2009 |
State Oil Company of the Republic of Azerbaijan (SOCAR) suspends money allocated for environmental projects in 2009 |
| 25 February 2009 |
Georgia commemorates the anniversary of the 1921 Red Army invasion |
| 26 February 2009 |
Georgian Foreign Minister Grigol Vashadze visits Ukraine |
| 28 February 2009 |
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Grigori Karasin meets Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mamedyarov on a visit to Azerbaijan |
| 1 March 2009 |
Georgian President Saakashvili visits Abu Dhabi and Ras Al Khaimah emirate of UAE |
| 3 March 2009 |
Armenia’s national currency, the dram, goes into free fall after the Central Bank ceases its support |
| 3 March 2009 |
Russia resumes limited visa service for Georgian citizens |
| 3 March 2009 |
EU’s war inquiry mission visits Abkhazia |
| 4 March 2009 |
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev meets with Abkhaz leader Sergey Bagapsh in Moscow |
| 5 March 2009 |
A meeting of the NATO-Georgia commission is held in Brussels |
| 5 March 2009 |
Leader of the opposition movement Alliance for Georgia Irakli Alasania meets with the EU High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy Javier Solana in Brussels |
| 5 March 2009 |
Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili says that he rules out a new “military adventure” by Russia in Georgia |
| 6 March 2009 |
The EU’s war inquiry mission visits Tskhinvali in South Ossetia |
| 6 March 2009 |
Leader of the opposition movement Alliance for Georgia Irakli Alasania calls for a joint “action plan” with other opposition parties to achieve the resignation of Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili |
| 6 March 2009 |
Abkhaz leader Sergey Bagapsh says that Russia will soon sign an agreement with Abkhazia to allow the stationing of a Russian military base in the Gudauta district of Abkhazia for a term of 49 years |
| 10 March 2009 |
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) officially approves a 540 million US dollars loan to Armenia |
| 10 March 2009 |
Armenian Ombudsman Armen Harutiunian criticizes Armenia’s “oligarchic” political system in annual report |
| 11 March 2009 |
Georgia withdraws from the Moscow Eurovision Song Contest |
| 12 March 2009 |
Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian criticizes Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili’s comments on the “collapse” of the Armenian economy |
| 13 March 2009 |
U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Matthew Bryza visits Georgia |
| 16 March 2009 |
Georgian National Electricity Regulatory Commission (GNERC) takes over management of the Kazakhowned gas distributor company KazTransGaz-Tbilisi |
| 17 March 2009 |
Russia pledges 149 million US dollars aid package for Abkhazia and South Ossetia |