| January | |
| 5 January 2010 | Georgia launches a Russian-language Caucasus television channel |
| 8 January 2010 | Georgian Airways conducts its first Tbilisi-Moscow charter flight |
| 14 January 2010 | Russian Deputy Interior Minister Arkady Yedelev says that terrorist groups are being trained at military bases in Georgia to launch attacks on the territory of the Russian Federation |
| 14 January 2010 | Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov urges progress in the Turkish-Armenian rapprochement |
| 19 January 2010 | Armenian opposition journalist Nikol Pashinian is sentenced to seven years in jail on charges of organizing mass unrest following the presidential elections of 2008 |
| 19 January 2010 | Georgian Foreign Minister Grigol Vashadze meets with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki in Tehran |
| 19 January 2010 | Georgian Prime Minister Nika Gilauri visits Egypt |
| 19 January 2010 | The European Commission includes Azerbaijan on the list of countries that can export black caviar to the European Union |
| 20 January 2010 | Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan says that an Armenian court’s reference to the mass killings of Armenians during World War I as “genocide” could harm the Armenian-Turkish rapprochement process |
| 20 January 2010 | Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili meets with Estonian President Thomas Hendrik Ilves in Tallinn, Estonia |
| 20 January 2010 | Former Armenian President Robert Kocharian meets with Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad and Iran Foreign Minister Manuchehr Mottaki in Tehran |
| 20 January 2010 | Azerbaijan commemorates the 20th anniversary of the 20 January tragedy when civilians were killed after the Soviet army attacked Baku |
| 22 January 2010 | Leader of opposition movement Alliance for Georgia Irakli Alasania calls on Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili to convene a session of the National Security Council over allegations of meddling by Georgian senior officials in Ukraine’s presidential elections |
| 23 January 2010 | A Georgian parliamentary delegation led by Parliament speaker David Bakradze visits Brussels for meetings with NATO and the European Union |
| 25 January 2010 | Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev agree on the preamble to the “Madrid principles” that constitute the outline for a potential Karabakh peace agreement during a meeting in Sochi with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev |
| 26 January 2010 | Georgian Prime Minister Nika Gilauri visits Armenia |
| 28 January 2010 | Georgia unveils a strategy on Abhazia and South Ossetia |
| 28 January 2010 | Negotiators during the ninth round of the Geneva talks fail to make progress on a potential agreement on the non-use of force and international security arrangements |
| 28 January 2010 | Two Azerbaijani soldiers kill four officers and then turn their weapons on themselves during a shooting incident at an Azerbaijani military base near the border with Armenia |
| 28 January 2010 | Georgian ambassador to Azerbaijan Ivane Noniashvili resigns two months after his appointment to the position |
| 29 January 2010 | Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili offers the United States a transit route for weapons and supplies to Afghanistan through Georgian territory |
| 29 January 2010 | At least one person is killed and seven wounded during a mine blast in the Gali district of Georgia’s breakaway region of Abkhazia |
| February | |
| 2 February 2010 | Georgia accuses Eutelsat of censorship for taking Georgia’s Russian-language Caucasian channel off the satellite |
| 2 February 2010 | U.S. National Intelligence Director Dennis Blair writes in testimony to a U.S. senate committee that he sees an increased chance of a Karabakh conflict because of the Turkish-Armenian rapprochement |
| 2 February 2010 | Dozens of small-business owners protest in Georgia’s capital of Tbilisi against a new tax law in which small businesses could be fined for failing to provide receipts and invoices |
| 3 February 2010 | The Council of Europe’s Venice Commission visits Georgia to meet with representatives of the state commission on constitutional reform |
| 6 February 2010 | A U.S. congressional panel schedules a meeting in March to vote on a resolution to label the mass killings of Armenians by Turkish forces during World War I a “genocide” |
| 8 February 2010 | Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili says that “Ukrainian democracy has won” after Ukraine’s presidential elections and Georgia and Ukraine would remain strategic partners no matter who is elected as the new Ukrainian president |
| 9 February 2010 | Former Georgian Prime Minister Zurab Nogaideli’s party Movement for a Fair Georgia and Russia’s United Russia party sign a cooperation agreement in Moscow |
| 9 February 2010 | Georgian officials criticize France’s decision to sell a warship to Russia |
| 10 February 2010 | Georgian investigative journalist Vakhtang Komakhidze asks for asylum in Switzerland citing “aggressive threats” coming from the Georgian authorities |
| 14 February 2010 | Armenian law-enforcement agencies seize drugs and arrest three Iranians allegedly involved in drug trafficking over the border with Turkey |
| 16 February 2010 | President of the breakaway region of Abkhazia Sergey Bagapsh visits Moscow |
| 17 February 2010 | Russia and the breakaway region of Abkhazia sign a treaty on military cooperation envisaging the creation of a joint Russian-Abkhaz military base |
| 17 February 2010 | Kazakh Foreign Minister and OSCE Chairman-in-Office Kanat Saudabayev visits Georgia |
| 18 February 2010 | Three Azerbaijani soldiers are killed after an exchange with Armenian armed forces near the Nagorno Karabakh region |
| 19 February 2010 | Georgian Prime Minister Nika Gilauri announces that Georgia’s economy grew in the first quarter of 2010 |
| 22 February 2010 | Armenian Minister for Trade and Economic Development Nerses Yeritsian says that the economic crisis in the country has ended |
| 22 February 2010 | Police in the breakaway region of South Ossetia set a deadline of 1 March for people to register illegal weapons |
| 23 February 2010 | Georgian opposition leader and former Prime Minister Zurab Nogaideli visits Brussels |
| 24 February 2010 | Prime Minister Nika Gilauri visits Qatar |
| 25 February 2010 | The United States pledges 124 million US dollars to enhance Georgia’s energy infrastructure |
| 25 February 2010 | A U.S. warship makes a port call in Georgia’s Black Sea port of Poti |
| 26 February 2010 | Maxim Gvinjia is appointed as the new foreign minister of the breakaway region of Abkhazia, replacing Sergey Shamba who became prime minister |
| 27 February 2010 | Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili and Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian pledge closer cooperation between their respective countries during Sarkisian’s private visit to Georgia’s Black Sea town of Batumi |
| March | |
| 1 March 2010 | A Georgian-Russian mountain border crossing is reopened |
| 3 March 2010 | Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos visits Georgia as part of a tour of the three South Caucasus states during the Spanish EU presidency |
| 3 March 2010 | Leader of opposition party Democratic Movement-United Georgia and former Georgian Parliament speaker Nino Burdjanadze visits Moscow |
| 3 March 2010 | U.S. business leaders urge the House of Representatives to reject a resolution that would label the mass killings of Armenians during World War I a “genocide,” arguing that it would put jobs at risk in the aerospace and defense industry |
| 4 March 2010 | The first leader of the breakaway region of Abkhazia Vladislav Ardzinba dies |
| 5 March 2010 | Georgian Deputy Foreign Minister Giga Bokeria reassures Azerbaijan over the opening of a Russian-Georgian border crossing after Azerbaijani officials express concerns that Russia could use the crossing point to transport arms to Armenia |
| 5 March 2010 | Turkey reacts angrily after the US House of Representatives’ Foreign Affairs Committee adopts a resolution calling the mass killings of Armenians in World War I a “genocide” |
| 6 March 2010 | Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili orders the Georgian health ministry to test hair samples of public officials for evidences of drug misuse |
| 9 March 2010 | Opposition leader and former Georgian Prime Minister Zurab Nogaideli visits Moscow |
| 11 March 2010 | Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk visits Georgia |
| 11 March 2010 | Turkey recalls its ambassador to Sweden following the Swedish Parliament’s decision to recognize as genocide the mass killings of Armenians during World War I |
| 12 March 2010 | Former Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky says that Armenia and Azerbaijan should not trust Russia to help resolve the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict |
| 13 March 2010 | A fake TV report on an alleged Russian-backed coup and military attack on Georgia cause widespread fear and outrage in Georgia |
| 14 March 2010 | Georgian Prime Minister Nika Gilauri visits Brussels |
| 16 March 2010 | Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili meets with Russian opposition figure Garry Kasparov in Tbilisi |
| 17 March 2010 | President of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso says that he is ”concerned” over the fake TV report of a Russian invasion of Georgia broadcast by the TV channel Imedi |
| 18 March 2010 | The EBRD will allocate a 180 million Euro loan to Georgia for two projects: a new railway route and a high-voltage power transmission line |
| 21 March 2010 | Nowruz is declared a national holiday in Georgia |
| 23 March 2010 | Three inmates are transferred from the detention facilities in Guantanamo to Georgia |
| 24 March 2010 | The Georgian authorities reject an application for citizenship of St. Petersburg based businessman and presidential hopeful Aleksandr Ebraelidze |
| 25 March 2010 | Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili meets with NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen in Brussels |
| 26 March 2010 | Georgian protesters ask for a street named after former US President George W. Bush in Tbilisi to be renamed |
| 31 March 2010 | The Georgian Foreign Ministry protests Russian plans to build heliports in the breakaway region of South Ossetia |
| April | |
| 6 April 2010 | US President Barack Obama thanks Georgia for its significant contribution to the Afghan deployment |
| 7 April 2010 | A Georgian battalion is sent to Afghanistan |
| 7 April 2010 | Azerbaijan conducts counter-terror operations along the border with Russia |
| 8 April 2010 | Russia and the breakaway region of South Ossetia sign an agreement on Russia’s operation of a military base in the region for 49 years |
| 8 April 2010 | The Georgian Parliament approves Irakli Kavtaradze as the new Georgian ambassador to Azerbaijan |
| 9 April 2010 | Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili’s spokesperson Manana Manjgaladze says that Russia is interfering in Kyrgyzstan’s internal affairs |
| 9 April 2010 | EU Commissioner for Enlargement and European Neighbourhood Policy Stefan Fule visits Azerbaijan |
| 9 April 2010 | The State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR) says that Russia has become the largest importer of Azerbaijani gas with Georgia ranked second and Iran ranked third |
| 11 April 2010 | 11 April is declared a day of national mourning in Georgia to commemorate the death of late Polish President Lech Kaczynski |
| 11 April 2010 | Baku commemorates the Jewish victims of the Holocaust |
| 12 April 2010 | Head of Adjara Autonomous Republic’s government Levan Varshalomidze criticizes Georgian Prime Minister Nika Gilauri for ignoring his requests to delegate technical functions to Adjara’s local authorities |
| 13 April 2010 | Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan and US President Barack Obama meet on the sidelines of the nuclear security summit in Washington |
| 13 April 2010 | US President Barack Obama urges Turkey and Armenia to “make every effort” towards the normalization of relations |
| 14 April 2010 | Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili addresses the nuclear security summit in Washington |
| 14 April 2010 | The Georgian Interior Ministry says that it has seized a small amount of highly enriched uranium |
| 14 April 2010 | Chinese MPs and members of the China–Azerbaijan interparliamentary friendship group visit Baku |
| 15 April 2010 | EU Commissioner for Energy Günther Oettinger visits the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR) headquarters in Azerbaijan |
| 16 April 2010 | Opposition leader Levan Gachechiladze says that he will not run for the Tbilisi mayor’s office during the next local elections in May and will not support any of the opposition candidates |
| 16 April 2010 | Azerbaijan and Russia reach an agreement on the delimitation of state borders |
| 16 April 2010 | Head of Legislation and Legal Expertise Department of the Azerbaijani Presidential Administration Shahin Aliyev says that Azerbaijan faces a shortage of lawyers |
| 18 April 2010 | Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili attends the state funeral of Polish President Lech Kaczynski |
| 20 April 2010 | Georgian Trade Unions start a miners’ warning strike in Zestafoni and Chiatura in Western Georgia to demand better safety conditions to counter an increasing number of accidents |
| 20 April 2010 | Georgia detains a Russian tanker in the port of Batumi and fines it for polluting the Black Sea |
| 23 April 2010 | Georgian People’s Party leader Koba Davitashvili and Conservative Party leader Kakha Kukava visit Moscow for talks with Russian politicians and Georgian diaspora groups about the breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia |
| 23 April 2010 | Georgia condemns David Wilshire, a monitor from the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), for meeting with a South Ossetian official in the embassy of the breakaway region in Moscow |
| 26 April 2010 | Head of the Armenian Apostolic Church Catholicos Garegin II makes a first-ever trip to Azerbaijan and joins with Azerbaijan’s Shi’a Muslim leader Sheikh ul-Islam Allahshukur Pashazade and Russian Orthodox Church leader Patriarch Kirill in calling for a peaceful resolution to the Nagorno Karabakh conflict |
| 26 April 2010 | Georgian Foreign Minister Grigol Vashadze visits Turkey |
| 27 April 2010 | Turkish Energy Minister Taner Yildiz says Turkey and Azerbaijan have reached an agreement on the price and volume of Azerbaijani gas to be shipped to Turkey through the Nabucco gas pipeline |
| 27 April 2010 | Georgia’s ranking remains “partly free”, the rankings of Armenia and Azerbaijan remain “not free” in Freedom House’s survey of global press freedom |
| 29 April 2010 | Newly appointed Russian co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group Igor Popov visits Stepanakert in Nagorno-Karabakh |
| 29 April 2010 | Abkhaz leader Sergei Bagapsh says that he will not allow international observers on the territory of Georgia’s breakaway region of Abkhazia and that he is “cautiously optimistic” over the possible recognition of Abkhazia by Ukraine and Belarus |
| 29 April 2010 | Georgian ex-public defender and co-chairman of the opposition Alliance for Georgia Sozar Subari withdraws from the election race for the Tbilisi mayor’s office |
| 30 April 2010 | Nine candidates apply to the Central Electoral Commission (CEC) to run for the May mayoral elections in Georgia’s capital Tbilisi |
| May | |
| 1 May 2010 | Georgian Foreign Minister Grigol Vashadze visits Syria |
| 3 May 2010 | Iranian Interior Minister Mostafa Mohammad-Najjar visits Azerbaijan |
| 5 May 2010 | Leader of Georgia’s breakaway region of South Ossetia Eduard Kokoity visits Russia to discuss Russia’s assistance on reconstruction and infrastructure projects |
| 6 May 2010 | Policy Day is celebrated in Georgia |
| 7 May 2010 | Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian meets with Chinese President Hu Jintao in Shanghai on the sidelines of the 2010 World Expo |
| 7 May 2010 | FBI director Robert Mueller visits Georgia and meets with Interior Minister Vano Merabishvili and Justice Minister Zurab Adeishvili |
| 7 May 2010 | Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili meets Pope Benedict XVI in the Vatican |
| 7 May 2010 | A poll conducted by the Caucasus Resource Research Centers (CRRC) for the U.S. National Democratic Institute (NDI) shows a decrease in support for NATO membership in Georgia |
| 8 May 2010 | Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin says that Moscow is ready for talks with “constructive forces” in Georgia |
| 11 May 2010 | Some Azerbaijani politicians blame Iran for contributing to the flooding of villages in southeastern Azerbaijan by manipulating reservoirs near Azerbaijan’s border |
| 11 May 2010 | Georgian Prime Minister Nika Gilauri appoints Giorgi Pertaia as business liaison adviser |
| 11 May 2010 | The State Commission for constitutional reform in Georgia agrees on the draft of a new constitution which would significantly increase the powers of the Prime Minister if adopted |
| 12 May 2010 | Azerbaijan, Georgia and Romania sign a protocol on forming a joint venture to export gas to Europe |
| 12 May 2010 | Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian and Defense Minister Seyran Ohanian reaffirm Armenia’s commitment to closer relations with NATO during a meeting at the NATO headquarters in Brussels |
| 12 May 2010 | EU commissioner for enlargement and European neighborhood policy Stefan Füle says that Georgia is committed to take up the opportunities offered by the EU through the Eastern Partnership and European Neighborhood Policy |
| 12 May 2010 | Georgian media mogul and leader of the People’s Orthodox Movement Malkhaz Gulashvili flees to Tskhinvali in South Ossetia |
| 12 May 2010 | Azerbaijani villages continue to be evacuated due to massive floods |
| 13 May 2010 | The EU Monitoring Mission in Georgia (EUMM) welcomes the release of three Georgians by the authorities of the breakaway region of South Ossetia |
| 14 May 2010 | Ukrainian Foreign Minister Konstantine Grishchenko says in an interview with the Russian newspaper Kommersant that Kyiv is not considering the recognition of Georgia’s breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia |
| 19 May 2010 | The International Monetary Fund (IMF) says that the Armenian economy is recovering faster than expected from the global recession |
| 20 May 2010 | The European Parliament adopts a non-binding resolution on the South Caucasus calling for a greater EU involvement in the region |
| 22 May 2010 | Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt visits Georgia |
| 22 May 2010 | Georgian Deputy Foreign Minister Nino Kalandadze says that Iran-Georgian relations are entering a “new stage” and that Tbilisi hopes that they will further deepen |
| 22 May 2010 | A new political party “Iron” is established in South Ossetia |
| 30 May 2010 | Local municipal elections are held in Georgia |
| 30 May 2010 | The Georgian port of Batumi renames a street in the city after the late Polish President Lech Kaczynski |
| June | |
| 2 June 2010 | The Central Election Commission in Georgia announces a victory for the ruling party United National Movement in the municipal elections |
| 3 June 2010 | The Georgian police says that it has detained members of an international cartel engaged in cocaine trafficking from Latin America into Turkey via Georgia |
| 4 June 2010 | Ukrainian President Victor Yanukovych says that the recognition of Abkhazia and South Ossetia is “a violation of international laws and norms” |
| 11 June 2010 | Ukrainian President Victor Yanukovych meets with Georgian Foreign Minister Grigol Vashadze in Kiev |
| 11 June 2010 | Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says that Russia’s decision to recognize the independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia is irreversible |
| 17 June 2010 | US President Barack Obama promises in a letter to Azerbaijan that the US support for the peaceful resolution of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict is a top priority |
| 17 June 2010 | The European Union and Georgia sign a visa facilitation agreement in Brussels |
| 17 June 2010 | Russian President Dmitry Medvedev meets with the presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan on the sidelines of the St. Petersburg economic forum to discuss the Nagorno Karabakh conflict |
| 17 June 2010 | The Armenian leadership of the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh says that it is skeptical about the meeting between the Azerbaijani and Armenian presidents and their chances to find a solution to the conflict |
| 17 June 2010 | International organizations criticize a new law in Armenia that they say will allow the Armenian government to retain its control of media broadcasting |
| 18 June 2010 | The head of the World Bank in Armenia Aristomene Varoudakis urges the Armenian government to take action against the country’s large shadow economy |
| 21 June 2010 | Clashes between Armenian and Azerbaijan forces continue around the region of Nagorno Karabakh |
| 21 June 2010 | Georgian opposition representatives propose to constitutionally bar Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili from becoming Prime Minister after his term expires |
| 22 June 2010 | Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian meets with German Chancellor Angela Merkel during an official visit in Berlin and discusses bilateral relations, the Nagorno Karabakh conflict and the Armenian-Turkish rapprochement |
| 23 June 2010 | Iranian Ambassador to Armenia Seyed Ali Saghaeyan says that Tehran is strongly opposed to any U.S. involvement in a multinational peacekeeping force that would be deployed in Nagorno Karabakh in the event of an Armenian-Azerbaijani peace agreement |
| 24 June 2010 | The breakaway region of Abkhazia temporarily suspends its participation in the Geneva international talks |
| 24 June 2010 | Prime Minister of the breakaway region of Abkhazia Sergey Shamba says that the possible abolition of the post of European Union Special Representative for the South Caucasus would reduce contacts between Abkhazia and the EU |
| 24 June 2010 | Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian and Defense Minister Seyran Ohanian visit Nagorno-Karabakh |
| 24 June 2010 | International and local human rights groups urge the Council of Europe to take concrete measures to improve the human rights situation in Azerbaijan |
| 25 June 2010 | The statue of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin is removed from the central square in his hometown of Gori in Georgia |
| 25 June 2010 | The Georgian company Silk Road Group says that US businessman Donald Trump is planning to invest in Georgia |
| 26 June 2010 | Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian claims that the international community holds Azerbaijan responsible for the latest upsurge in ceasefire violations around Nagorno Karabakh |
| 28 June 2010 | Georgian Foreign Minister Grigol Vashadze is stripped of his Russian citizenship after he had requested the Russian authorities to renounce it in November 2009 |
| July | |
| 4 July 2010 | U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton visits the South Caucasus |
| 8 July 2010 | A French warship arrives at Georgia’s Black Sea port of Batumi for exercises with the Georgian coast guard |
| 14 July 2010 | The EU Special Representative for the South Caucasus Peter Semneby meets with Abkhaz leader Sergey Bagapsh and prime minister of the breakaway region of Abkhazia Sergey Shamba in Sukhumi |
| 15 July 2010 | French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner visits Tbilisi |
| 16 July 2010 | EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs Catherine Ashton meets with Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili in Georgia’s Black Sea port of Batumi |
| 23 July 2010 | The leaders of the breakaway Georgian regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia Sergei Bagapsh and Eduard Kokoity meet with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez in Caracas |
| 23 July 2010 | Georgian Prime Minister Nika Gilauri visits Azerbaijan |
| 26 July 2010 | The EU extends the mandate of the EU monitoring mission in Georgia (EUMM) by one year until 14 September 2011 |
| 27 July 2010 | The twelfth round of the Geneva international talks is held |
| 29 July 2010 | The World Bank approves a 50 million dollar loan for Georgia |
| August | |
| 4 August 2010 | Russian colonel Valery Yakhnovets becomes Defense Minister of the breakaway region of South Ossetia |
| 7 August 2010 | Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili visits Colombia to attend the inauguration of President-elect Juan Manuel Santos Calderón |
| 8 August 2010 | Russian President Dmitry Medvedev visits Abkhazia on the anniversary of the 2008 Russian–Georgian war |
| 10 August 2010 | Georgian economy minister Vera Kobalia says that the first free industrial zone in Tbilisi will open in two years |
| 11 August 2010 | Russia deploys long range S-300 air defense missiles in Abkhazia |
| 12 August 2010 | Several hundred displaced persons from the breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia protest a police attempt to evict them from a former Soviet military building in Georgia’s capital Tbilisi |
| 12 August 2010 | BP Azerbaijan announces that Turkmen oil is flowing through the Baku–Tbilisi–Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline |
| 13 August 2010 | Abkhaz leader Sergey Bagapsh dismisses Interior Minister of the breakaway region Otar Khetsia |
| 15 August 2010 | Moldovan acting President Mihai Ghimpu visits Georgia |
| 16 August 2010 | Turkish President Abdullah Gul meets with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev on a visit to Azerbaijan |
| 20 August 2010 | Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian sign a deal extending Moscow‘s lease of a military base on Armenian territory by 24 years |
| 20 August 2010 | Georgian private airline company Airzena starts chartered flights from Tbilisi to Moscow |
| September | |
| 1 September 2010 | The Azerbaijani Defense Ministry says that three Armenian soldiers and two Azerbaijanis were killed during a clash on the border of the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh |
| 2 September 2010 | Russian President Dmitry Medvedev visits Azerbaijan |
| 3 September 2010 | Azerbaijan’s state energy company SOCAR and Russia’s Gazprom sign an agreement under which Azerbaijan will double its natural-gas exports to Russia |
| 6 September 2010 | Deputy head of the Interior Ministry’s unit in the North Caucasus Federal District Nikolai Simakov says that Georgia has camps on its territory to train militants to join insurgents in the North Caucasus |
| 8 September 2010 | U.S., Russian, and French mediators with the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe‘s (OSCE) Minsk Group meet with leaders of the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh in Stepanakert |
| 13 September 2010 | The International Court of Justice (ICJ) begins hearings on charges by Georgia of Russian human rights abuses in the two breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia |
| 14 September 2010 | Azerbaijan, Georgia, Romania and Hungary sign a joint declaration in Baku on the implementation of a liquefied natural gas (LNG) transportation project |
| 16 September 2010 | Armenian Energy Minister Armen Movsisian says Iran and Armenia will start building two major hydroelectric power stations on the Armenian–Iranian border |
| 22 September 2010 | Abkhaz leader Sergey Bagapsh appoints Leonid Dziapshba as the new Interior Minister of the breakaway region of Abkhazia |
| 24 September 2010 | U.S. President Barack Obama meets with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York and calls on him to improve Azerbaijan’s record on human rights |
| 25 September 2010 | Emergency Situations Minister Armen Yeritsian says that Armenia is receiving thousands of tons of grain and cooking oil from Russia to help the country cope with a sharp increase in international prices |
| October | |
| 1 October 2010 | NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen visits Georgia |
| 1 October 2010 | Georgian State Minister for Euro-Atlantic Integration Giorgi Baramidze and head of the EU delegation to Georgia Per Eklund sign a memorandum of understanding on a EU-funded Comprehensive Institutional Building Program to help the institutional strengthening of Georgian state agencies |
| 1 October 2010 | The Georgian Ministry of Defense says that four Georgian military servicemen were killed in Afghanistan |
| 3 October 2010 | Russian President Dmitry Medvedev criticizes Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko’s statement explaining the motives for Minsk’s decision not to recognize the two breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, as Moscow was not ready to share the negative consequences of such a decision |
| 4 October 2010 | Georgian Foreign Minister Grigol Vashadze visits Armenia |
| 5 October 2010 | An Armenian man detained in Azerbaijan in September in unclear circumstances is found dead in his prison cell |
| 7 October 2010 | Armenian Foreign Minister Eduard Nalbandian publicly accuses the Azerbaijani authorities of killing an Armenian man found dead in custody in Azerbaijan |
| 8 October 2010 | One man is killed and two others wounded in an attack on a mosque in Gudauta in the breakaway region of Abkhazia |
| 11 October 2010 | Iranian Defense Minister Ahmad Vahidi visits Baku to discuss bilateral military cooperation between Iran and Azerbaijan and regional security |
| 12 October 2010 | Iranian parliament speaker Ali Larijani praises deepening relations between Armenia and Iran during an official visit to Yerevan |
| 13 October 2010 | Abkhaz leader Sergey Bagapsh says in an interview with the Russian newspaper Kommersant that Russian state oil company Rosneft will soon start exploration off Abkhazia’s Black Sea coast |
| 14 October 2010 | The Russian Foreign Ministry says in a statement that Georgia’s decision to introduce visa-free rules for Russian citizens residing in the North Caucasus republics is a “provocation” |
| 15 October 2010 | A new constitution which will reduce the powers of the President in favor of the Prime Minister is adopted by the Georgian Parliament |
| 18 October 2010 | Russian troops withdraw from the village of Perevi at the administrative border between Georgia and the breakaway region of South Ossetia |
| 18 October 2010 | Armenian officials in Yerevan deny allegations made by opposition media that Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian entertained close relations with the ringleader of an Armenian–American crime syndicate and “vor v zakone” (thief in law) Armen Kazarian |
| 22 October 2010 | Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov accuses Tbilisi of helping Chechen militants |
| 23 October 2010 | Opposition leaders from the election bloc Azerbaijan’s Popular Front/Musavat refuse to meet with a delegation of election observers from the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) prior to the November parliamentary elections in Azerbaijan and accuse long-term observers from PACE of not being objective in their previous assessments of elections. |
| 24 October 2010 | Georgian Prime Minister Nika Gilauri visits China |
| 24 October 2010 | Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili participates in the Francophone Summit in Montreux, Switzerland |
| 25 October 2010 | Georgian Minister for Reintegration Temur Yakobashvili rejects as “without foundation” the claims of Chechen Republic head Ramzan Kadyrov’s that Georgia is providing a safe haven for Chechen militants |
| 27 October 2010 | Russian President Dmitry Medvedev hosts Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev for peace talks on the disputed region of Nagorno Karabakh in the southern Russian city of Astrakhan. |
| 29 October 2010 | The Azerbaijani opposition says that the ruling authorities are preparing to falsify the November parliamentary elections in Azerbaijan |
| November | |
| 2 November 2010 | The Georgian air company Georgian Airways launches Tbilisi–Tehran direct flights |
| 3 November 2010 | Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki signs a visa-free travel arrangement between Georgia and Iran with Georgian Foreign Minister Grigol Vashadze on an official visit to Georgia |
| 3 November 2010 | Ukrainian Defense Minister Mykhailo Yezhel visits Georgia |
| 5 November 2010 | A group of 13 alleged spies suspected of spying for Russia are arrested in Georgia |
| 7 November 2010 | The ruling Yeni Azerbaycan (New Azerbaijan) Party wins a majority during the parliamentary elections held in Azerbaijan |
| 8 November 2010 | The Georgian Interior Ministry says that two Armenians have pleaded guilty on trying to smuggle uranium into Georgia |
| 9 November 2010 | The passing of a constitutional amendment to make a referendum binding in case the government wants to increase taxes is delayed in Georgia |
| 9 November 2010 | Two deputy ministers of health are dismissed on corruption charges in Armenia |
| 11 November 2010 | More than 100 workers in two chemical enterprises protest to demand the payment of their unpaid wages in Armenia’s capital Yerevan |
| 11 November 2010 | Georgian former foreign minister and leader of the opposition party Georgia’s Way Salome Zourabichvili announces that she will temporary quit politics |
| 16 November 2010 | Head of the State Committee on Nuclear Safety Ashot Martirosian denies that the uranium seized by the Georgian authorities from two Armenian citizens was stolen from the Metsamor nuclear power plant in Armenia. |
| 16 November 2010 | The Armenian parliament passes a bill to raise the minimum monthly wage in Armenia to 32,500 drams (90 US dollars) starting in January. |
| 17 November 2010 | Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili meets with European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso in Brussels |
| 18 November 2010 | Armenian Prime Minister Tigran Sarkisian praises the “radical” reform proposals received from the agriculture, finance, education, and health ministers in response to his criticism of corruption and his request to dismiss high-level officials on corruption and mismanagement charges in these ministries. |
| 19 November 2010 | Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian announces that he will boycott the NATO summit in Lisbon because of the plan to adopt a draft resolution during the summit calling for solutions to the ethnic conflicts in the South Caucasus based only on the principle of territorial integrity warning that the wording of the resolution would complicate efforts to resolve the Nagorno Karabakh conflict with Azerbaijan. |
| 20 November 2010 | Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili meets with U.S. President Barack Obama on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Lisbon to discuss the strategic partnership between the United States and Georgia, the U.S. reset policy with Russia and Georgia’s NATO aspirations. |
| 20 November 2010 | The final declaration of the NATO Lisbon summit reiterates the decision taken at the NATO Bucharest summit in 2008 that Georgia will become a member of the alliance in the future. |
| 22 November 2010 | The EU’s Special Representative for the South Caucasus Peter Semneby welcomes the release from custody of the two Azerbaijani bloggers Emin Milli and Adnan Hajizada. |
| 23 November 2010 | Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili calls for a direct dialogue with Russia during a speech at the European Parliament and declares that Georgia will not resort to force. |
| 24 November 2010 | Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili meets with Moldovan acting President Mihai Ghimpu during a two-day visit in Moldova. |
| 25 November 2010 | The EU’s high representative for foreign affairs and security policy Catherine Ashton welcomes Georgia’s non-use of force pledge. |
| 26 November 2010 | Armenian Deputy Foreign Minister Karine Kazinian says Armenia will start negotiations on a visa facilitation agreement with the EU in December 2010 |
| 28 November 2010 | One person dies in two explosions in Georgia’s capital Tbilisi |
| 30 November 2010 | The Georgian National Bank reports that the inflation rate in Georgia by the end of 2010 is predicted to climb to 10.6% |
| December | |
| 1 December 2010 | The United Kingdom, Germany and Sweden call for the restoration of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) mission in Georgia at the OSCE summit in Astana |
| 2 December 2010 | A leading member of Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian’s Republican Party denies U.S. claims disclosed in WikiLeaks of Armenian arms transfers to Iran |
| 3 December 2010 | The United States donates 74 off-road vehicles worth 2.8 million US dollars to the Georgian Interior Ministry as part of the U.S. post-war assistance to Georgia |
| 4 December 2010 | The Georgian police arrest six persons in connection with five explosions in Georgia |
| 6 December 2010 | Leaders of the breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia Sergey Bagapsh and Eduard Kokoity make non-use of force pledges |
| 6 December 2010 | The Georgian Foreign Ministry condemns Russia’s reported deployment of Smerch (Tornado) multiple-launch rocket systems in South Ossetia |
| 7 December 2010 | The Russian Foreign Ministry hails the non-use of force pledges made by the Abkhaz and South Ossetian leaders as opening the way for a full-fledged legal enshrinement of a non-use of force regime between Tbilisi and Sukhumi and Tbilisi and Tskhinvali. |
| 9 December 2010 | The Russian Foreign Ministry accuses Georgia of provocations against Moscow in linking espionage acts and explosions in Georgia to a Russian military officer based in Abkhazia |
| 9 December 2010 | Armenian Justice Minister Gevorg Danielian is dismissed for his failure to punish a high-level official in the Justice Ministry allegedly involved in violent conduct |
| 10 December 2010 | Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian says that Armenia will recognize the Nagorno-Karabakh region as independent if Azerbaijan should choose to use force to resolve the dispute over the region |
| 10 December 2010 | Leader of the breakaway region of Abkhazia Sergey Bagapsh signs a decree to hold local elections in Abkhazia in February 2011 |
| 11 December 2010 | U.S. Republican Senator John McCain calls again for the United States to resume arms sales to Georgia, at a minimum providing Georgia with early warning radars |
| 11 December 2010 | The police in Azerbaijan’s capital of Baku break up a demonstration for the right to wear Islamic head scarves in schools |
| 13 December 2010 | The Russian Foreign Ministry criticizes a draft resolution initiated by the U.S. senate that calls for the recognition of Abkhazia and South Ossetia as territories “occupied” by Russia |
| 13 December 2010 | Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian and Armenia’s National Security Council approve a five-year plan to modernize the Armenian army |
| 14 December 2010 | The European Parliament approves agreements signed between the EU and Georgia on visa facilitation and the readmission of irregular immigrants |
| 15 December 2010 | The Georgian Parliament passes a constitutional amendment making a referendum binding in case the government decides to increase taxes |
| 15 December 2010 | The Georgian Parliament passes a draft law on tax breaks for IT companies |
| 27 December 2010 | More than a hundred civil servants protest in Yerevan against layoffs amid plans to disband the State Social Security Service |
| 28 December 2010 | Azerbaijani opposition leaders agree on creating a new Civic Movement for Democracy—Public Chamber |
| 29 December 2010 | Matthew Bryza is appointed US ambassador to Azerbaijan by US President Barack Obama |
