| January | |
| 3 January 2012 | Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian inspects military facilities in the disputed region of Nagorno Karabakh and meets with Karabakh Armenian military commanders |
| 12 January 2012 | Representatives of five extra-parliamentary opposition parties in Azerbaijan meet to create a new opposition alliance, Resistance Movement for a Democratic Society |
| 16 January 2012 | The websites of Azerbaijani official bodies are hacked and become inaccessible for several hours |
| 16 January 2012 | Leaders of two opposition parties in Armenia’s Parliament accuse John Prescott, a top official of the Council of Europe’s Parliamentary Assembly (PACE), of pro-government bias after a meeting in Yerevan |
| 16 January 2012 | Police officers attack hundreds of Azeri taxi drivers demonstrating in front of the Transport Ministry in Baku against new restrictions on the use of privately owned cars as taxi vehicles |
| 19 January 2012 | Georgian Foreign Minister Grigol Vashadze meets with Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov in Ashgabat |
| 19 January 2012 | Azerbaijan’s National Security Ministry (MNS) says it has uncovered a terror group in Baku that was plotting terrorist acts against public figures |
| 19 January 2012 | A new civic union of “Abkhaz patriotic forces” is established in Abkhazia |
| 23 January 2012 | Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian and Azeri President Ilham Aliyev meet in Sochi for talks mediated by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and agree to accelerate negotiations aimed at settling the Nagorno Karabakh dispute |
| 23 January 2012 | Russian state-controlled gas company Gazprom signs a deal with Azerbaijan’s state-owned energy company SOCAR to double its gas imports from Azerbaijan |
| 24 January 2012 | Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Abkhaz leader Alexander Ankvab tour a newly reconstructed border crossing point between Russia and Abkhazia on the Psou river |
| 24 January 2012 | Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan denounces the French genocide bill as “racist” and “discriminatory” |
| 27 January 2012 | The Georgian state statistics agency says that the country’s wine exports have jumped nearly 40 percent in value last year to more than 54 million US dollars despite the Russian embargo on Georgian wine exports |
| 30 January 2012 | Billionaire opposition politician Bidzina Ivanishvili calls on Washington to help secure free and fair parliamentary elections in Georgia this year in an ad in the newspaper Washington Post ahead of the Obama–Saakashvili meeting at the White House |
| 30 January 2012 | Commander of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) and of the U.S. forces in Afghanistan General John R. Allen visits Tbilisi to discuss Georgia’s contribution to “peace and stability in Afghanistan” |
| 30 January 2012 | Georgian Deputy Foreign Minister Davit Jalagania says that Tbilisi hopes that the Pacific island of Fiji will not recognize Abkhazia and South Ossetia |
| 31 January 2012 | Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili meets with US President Barack Obama at the White House in Washington and discusses security cooperation and a possible free trade agreement (FTA) between the two countries |
| 31 January 2012 | The foreign ministry of the breakaway region of Abkhazia declares that the neutral travel documents designed by Tbilisi for residents of breakaway regions in Georgia cause the “isolation of Abkhazia” instead of promoting engagement |
| February | |
| 2 February 2012 | Russian Deputy Defense Minister Anatoly Antonov says that Russia is strongly against US arms supply to Georgia as this would destabilize the situation in the Caucasus |
| 5 February 2012 | Georgian Interior Minister Vano Merabishvili visits Minsk and signs a cooperation agreement with the chief of the newly established Investigative Committee of Belarus Valeri Vakulchik |
| 10 February 2012 | South Ossetian opposition leader Alla Jioyeva, who was planning to inaugurate herself as the breakaway region’s leader, is hospitalized after law enforcement agencies raid her office in Tskhinvali |
| 11 February 2012 | NATO special representative for the South Caucasus and Central Asia James Appathurai visits Azerbaijan and meets with Azeri President Ilham Aliyev to discuss cargo routes to and from Afghanistan |
| 11 February 2012 | Georgian Foreign Minister Grigol Vashadze visits Afghanistan and holds talks with Afghan Foreign Minister Zalmai Rasool and the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) |
| 13 February 2012 | The Georgian police defuses an explosive device attached to the car of a staff member of the Israeli embassy in Tbilisi |
| 13 February 2012 | Azerbaijan denies Iran’s claims of its alleged collaboration with Israel’s spy services to help the assassins who killed Iranian nuclear scientists |
| 14 February 2012 | The Georgian law enforcement agencies detain a man suspected of plotting terrorist acts in Zugdidi unrelated to the attempted car bomb involving an employee from the Israeli embassy in Tbilisi |
| 16 February 2012 | Baku submits a bid with fiver other cities to the International Olympic Committee to host the Summer Olympics 2020 |
| 17 February 2012 | Iran’s Fars news agency says Azerbaijani security forces have arrested their correspondent in Baku |
| 17 February 2012 | US President Barack Obama nominates former US Ambassador in Uzbekistan Richard Norland as his next ambassador to Georgia |
| 20 February 2012 | Former Georgian MP Valery Gelbakhiani is arrested in Tbilisi on charges of plotting a coup following the presidential elections of 2008 in Georgia |
| 21 February 2012 | Armenian deputies from the Heritage opposition faction file a court complaint against the decision to construct trade kiosks in a Yerevan park and join the protests by environmentalists and civic groups |
| 22 February 2012 | The leader of the breakaway region of Abkhazia Aleksander Ankvab survives an assassination attempt in the Abkhaz town of Gudauta |
| 20 February 2012 | Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili makes an unannounced visit to Georgian troops in Afghanistan |
| 25 February 2012 | Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili challenges opposition leaders to take a clear stand about their views on relations with Russia during a speech at a military base near the administrative border with South Ossetia |
| 26 February 2012 | About 50,000 people march through Baku to commemorate the 20th anniversary of Azerbaijan’s war with Armenian troops over the disputed region of Nagorno Karabakh |
| 26 February 2012 | Israeli officials confirm a deal to sell drones, antiaircraft and missile defence systems to Azerbaijan saying that the deal is not a response to Iran’s nuclear development program |
| 28 February 2012 | Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili offers visa-free travel to Russians during his annual address to the Parliament in order to improve relations between the two countries |
| 28 February 2012 | France’s Constitutional Council declares as unconstitutional a law that criminalizes the denial that the killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks during World War I constitutes a genocide |
| 28 February 2012 | The opposition Labour Party calls on opposition parties in Georgia to sign a declaration asking for the withdrawal of Georgian troops from Afghanistan |
| March | |
| 1 March 2012 | Thousands of protestors demanding the removal of Governor Rauf Habibov were dispersed by police using tear gas and rubber bullets in the city of Quba, Azerbaijan |
| 1 March 2012 | The Georgian Public Defender’s Office calls on the authorities to carry out a comprehensive and impartial investigation into the death of Solomon Kimeridze in a police station in the town of Khashuri |
| 2 March 2012 | Russia offers to re-establish diplomatic relations with Georgia and indicates that it is ready to reciprocate Georgia’s offer of visa-free travel between the two countries |
| 2 March 2012 | Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliev announces the dismissal of Governor Rauf Habibov in the northeastern district of Quba |
| 3 March 2012 | Georgia presents its first domestically manufactured multiple rocket launcher system at the Vaziani military base outside Tbilisi |
| 6 March 2012 | Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili meets with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliev in Baku to discuss energy and transport projects |
| 6 March 2012 | Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian accuses Azerbaijan of blocking progress in resolving the dispute over the Nagorno Karabakh region during a visit to NATO headquarters in Brussels |
| 7 March 2012 | The foreign ministers of Turkey and Iran meet with their Azerbaijani counterpart in the Naxcivan province in Azerbaijan to discuss the dispute over the Nagorno-Karabakh region as well as possible railway projects and the simplification of visa procedures between the three countries |
| 7 March 2012 | The Prime Minister of the South Pacific island Tuvalu, Willy Telavi, visits Abkhazia following his country’s recognition of the breakaway region in September 2011 |
| 7 March 2012 | The NATO-Georgia commission meets in Brussels to discuss “how to enhance Georgia’s partnership and connectivity with the Alliance” |
| 7 March 2012 | Armenia announces its decision to withdraw from the Eurovision song contest in Baku |
| 7 March 2012 | Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili announces the joint bid of Azerbaijan and Georgia to host the UEFA European Football Championship 2020 while addressing the Azerbaijani Parliament Milli Majlis |
| 7 March 2012 | Forbes magazine estimates the wealth of Bidzina Ivanishvili, leader of the opposition Georgian Dream coalition, at 6.4 billion dollars and ranks him in the 153th position in its annual list of the world’s billionaires |
| 10 March 2012 | Parliamentary elections are held in the breakaway region of Abkhazia |
| 12 March 2012 | Azerbaijani Defense Minister Safar Abiyev says that Baku would not allow its territory to be used for an attack on Iran and that it seeks closer cooperation with Iran during a two-day visit to Tehran |
| 12 March 2012 | Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili meets with U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear, Chemical, and Biological Defense Programs, Andrew C. Weber, in Tbilisi |
| 14 March 2012 | The Azerbaijani Ministry of National Security announces the arrests of 22 people on suspicion of plotting attacks against the US and Israeli embassies in Baku |
| 20 March 2012 | The state audit agency Chamber of Control fines opposition politician Bidzina Ivanishvili 1.65 million US dollars for illegal donations to his party Georgian Dream movement |
| 21 March 2012 | The Parliament of the breakaway region of South Ossetia dismisses chief prosecutor Taimuraz Khugaev as part of a deal between the opposition and the authorities signed in December 2011 |
| 22 March 2012 | Georgian Prime Minister Nika Gilauri visits Lebanon |
| 22 March 2012 | The World Bank approves two loans worth a total of 130 million US dollars to finance road rehabilitation projects and infrastructure development in the eastern region of Kakheti |
| 23 March 2012 | US Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta meets with Armenian Defense Minister Seyran Ohanyan at the Pentagon |
| 24 March 2012 | The breakaway region of Abkhazia holds runoff parliamentary elections |
| 25 March 2012 | The breakaway region of South Ossetia holds new elections to elect a new leader in a third attempt since November 2011. No one won the first round, so a runoff is set for April 8 between Leonid Tibilov and David Sanakoyev |
| 26 March 2012 | Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili attends the nuclear security summit in Seoul |
| 27 March 2012 | The Chief of the General Staff of the Armenian Armed Forces Colonel-General Yuri Khachaturov visits Georgia |
| 29 March 2012 | The nineteenth round of the international Geneva talks between Georgia and Russia is held focusing on the non-use of force and international security arrangements |
| 29 March 2012 | The World Bank’s private-sector investment arm, the International Finance Corporation (IFC), and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) become shareholders in the Bank of Georgia by converting some of their loans to the bank into equity |
| 30 March 2012 | Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin accuses Georgia of setting up an illegal armed formation next to the administrative border with the breakaway region of Abkhazia |
| April | |
| 1 April 2012 | Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov visits Georgia to discuss energy and transport projects between the two countries |
| 3 April 2012 | Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili meets with NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen at the NATO headquarters in Brussels |
| 3 April 2012 | The new parliament in the breakaway region of Abkhazia elects Valery Bganba as its new speaker |
| 4 April 2012 | Georgia’s Civil Registry Agency declares that billionaire opposition politician Bidzina Ivanishvili is not eligible to obtain Georgian citizenship through a naturalization process |
| 6 April 2012 | Georgia says it has ceased its obligations under the Open Skies Treaty vis-à-vis Russia |
| 6 April 2012 | Georgia invites relevant international organizations to deploy long-term election observation missions to monitor the entire electoral campaign in the country in the lead up to the October parliamentary elections |
| 8 April 2012 | A mass opposition protest, including the Azerbaijan Popular Front Party (APFP), Musavat (Equality), and the People's Party as well as NGOs and youth groups, calls for reforms and the resignation of Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev in Baku |
| 9 April 2012 | The ex-chief of the local KGB Leonid Tibilov is declared the winner of the presidential runoff by the electoral commission in the breakaway republic of South Ossetia |
| 9 April 2012 | Georgian minister of culture and monument protection Nikoloz Rurua says that the Stalin museum in the Soviet dictator’s hometown of Gori will be transformed into a Stalinism museum to focus on the Soviet regime’s repressions |
| 10 April 2012 | Georgia tests a domestically-produced drone |
| 11 April 2012 | The opposition Industry Will Save Georgia party joins the opposition coalition Georgian Dream led by billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili |
| 12 April 2012 | Six persons suspected of having participated in the assassination attempt on Abkhaz leader Alexander Ankvab are arrested in the breakaway region of Abkhazia |
| 12 April 2012 | A film festival of Azerbaijani films is cancelled in Armenia’s second largest city of Gyumri after dozens of protesters block the festival venue |
| 12 April 2012 | The Russian Foreign Ministry recommends Russian citizens to refrain from travelling to Georgia due to the absence of security in the country for Russian citizens |
| 17 April 2012 | Georgian Prime Minister Nika Gilauri tells the first high-level meeting of the Open Government Partnership (OGP) in Brazil that the government is setting up an agency, the Georgia Reforms and Partnership Enterprise (GRAPE), to promote and export the country’s reforms worldwide |
| 18 April 2012 | Georgian Foreign Minister Grigol Vashadze meets with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the NATO headquarters in Brussels |
| 18 April 2012 | Azerbaijani investigative journalist Idrak Abbasov is beaten by security personnel from the SOCAR state energy company after filming a confrontation that erupted when SOCAR employees were demolishing houses in the village of Sulutepe near Baku |
| 19 April 2012 | NATO reiterates having “disagreements in principle” with Russia over Georgia during a meeting of foreign ministers in the framework of the NATO–Russia council in Brussels |
| 19 April 2012 | Azerbaijani security forces say they have killed the head of a group allegedly linked to al-Qaeda and have arrested 19 of his supporters who were planning to carry out terrorist attacks in Azerbaijan |
| 22 April 2012 | Several thousand protesters from the opposition movement demand the release of political prisoners and the resignation of Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev in Baku |
| 22 April 2012 | Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili and American property tycoon Donald Trump unveil a construction project for a residential tower to which Trump has lent his name in Georgia’s Black Sea resort of Batumi |
| 23 April 2012 | Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman visits Baku for a two-day visit to discuss Israeli–Azerbaijani cooperation |
| 23 April 2012 | Armenia marks the Genocide Remembrance Day to honor the victims of the mass killings by Ottoman Turks during World War I |
| 24 April 2012 | The Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry says that the visit by the Israeli Foreign Minister is focused on bilateral relations between the two countries and is not directed against Iran or any other country |
| 24 April 2012 | A scuffle erupts in the Georgian Parliament after an opposition lawmaker brings up the issue of whether to recognize as genocide the mass killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks during World War I |
| 25 April 2012 | The Azerbaijani Interior Ministry says that Azerbaijan and Russia have started a week-long joint operation targeting organized criminal groups and terrorist organizations involved in the trafficking of munitions, explosives and drugs in Azerbaijan’s ten northern districts near the border with the North Caucasus |
| 25 April 2012 | The breakaway region of Abkhazia declares the head of the European Union Monitoring Mission in Georgia Andrzej Tyszkiewicz “persona non grata” |
| 26 April 2012 | Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili says he is ready to resign if Russia gives up control of the two breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia |
| 27 April 2012 | Armenian officials say that three Armenian servicemen were killed by shots fired at a military vehicle along the border with Azerbaijan |
| 30 April 2012 | Lithuanian Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius visits Georgia and meets with Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili to discuss Lithuania’s support for Georgia’s European integration during the Lithuanian presidency of the European Union in the second half of 2013 |
| May | |
| 2 May 2012 | Georgia’s parliamentary committee for diaspora and Caucasus issues holds a first discussion of Georgia’s draft State Strategy on Relations with the Peoples of the North Caucasus |
| 2 May 2012 | The State Minister for diaspora issues Papuna Davitaia says that Georgia plans to set up a “parliament” composed of representatives of the Georgian diaspora abroad to increase its involvement in the country’s affairs |
| 4 May 2012 | More than 140 people are injured when gas filled balloons explode at a campaign rally in support of Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian’s Republican Party in Yerevan; the police ruling out a deliberate attack. |
| 4 May 2012 | The European Broadcasting Union imposes a fine on Armenia over its refusal to participate in the Eurovision Song Contest in Baku |
| 4 May 2012 | Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili says that Georgia plans new legislation for a special financial zone on its Black Sea coast region near the Turkish border |
| 6 May 2012 | Parliamentary elections are held in Armenia with about 44 percent of the votes won by Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian’s Republican Party and about 30 percent going to Prosperous Armenia led by businessman Gagik Tsarukyan |
| 7 May 2012 | Opposition parties rally in Baku during an unsanctioned demonstration to demand that the authorities allow them to organize public gatherings in the center of the capital |
| 8 May 2012 | An amendment to the Georgian constitution is initiated in the Georgian Parliament to give the planned new city of Lazika, to be built from scratch on the Black Sea coast near the administrative border with the breakaway region of Abkhazia, a special constitutional status that will make it particularly attractive for foreign investments |
| 10 May 2012 | Russia’s Antiterrorism Committee (NAK) releases a statement claiming that the Federal Security Service (FSB) in cooperation with its Abkhaz counterpart found an arms cache on Abkhaz territory that Chechen militants intended to use to target Sochi during the 2014 Winter Olympics and claims that the transportation of the weapons was arranged in cooperation with the Georgian security services and illegal armed formations in Turkey |
| 11 May 2012 | Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with the leader of the breakaway region of Abkhazia Alexander Ankvab in Sochi |
| 11 May 2012 | Georgian businessman and opposition leader Bidzina Ivanishvili pledges to sell all his businesses and properties in Russia by the end of May |
| 13 May 2012 | Five people, including two children, die after a heavy rain causes a flood in Georgia’s capital of Tbilisi |
| 15 May 2012 | The European Union issues progress reports on the implementation of the European Neighbourhood Policy Action Plans in the three South Caucasus states |
| 15 May 2012 | Georgian Sports Minister Vladimer Vardzelashvili says that Georgia is making a solo bid to host the European soccer championships in 2020, abandoning its previous plan to apply jointly with Azerbaijan since Azerbaijan had asked to host the 2020 Summer Olympic Games |
| 17 May 2012 | The first-ever march of gay activists in Tbilisi to mark the International Day against Homophobia is blocked by an Orthodox group |
| 18 May 2012 | An Inter-Agency Task Force for Free and Fair Elections (IATF) is created in Georgia to react to possible violations ahead of the parliamentary elections in October and to ensure a fair and transparent electoral environment |
| 18 May 2012 | Lawmakers in the US State of Rhode Island pass a resolution calling on US President Barack Obama and the US Congress to recognize the independence of the disputed region of Nagorno Karabakh |
| 19 May 2012 | NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen says that the conduct of the parliamentary elections in Georgia this year will be a very important test for the country’s NATO aspirations |
| 20 May 2012 | Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili meets with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliev on the sideline of the NATO Summit in Chicago to discuss a recent controversy over a portion of the border between Georgia and Azerbaijan in the David Gareji monastery |
| 21 May 2012 | Azerbaijani opposition parties held an unsanctioned demonstration in Baku to protest against human rights abuses in the country on the eve of the Eurovision song contest |
| 22 May 2012 | A Russian citizen is sentenced to four years in prison by a court in Yerevan for creating a computer virus that infected about 30 million computers |
| 22 May 2012 | The Georgian Parliament passes a constitutional amendment to reduce the minimum age for becoming MP to 21 |
| 23 May 2012 | The leader of the breakaway region of South Ossetia Leonid Tibilov appoints opposition presidential candidate Alla Jioyeva as deputy prime minister |
| 25 May 2012 | A military parade is held in Georgia’s second largest town of Kutaisi to mark Independence Day |
| 29 May 2012 | About 60 employees of the Georgian Education Ministry's examinations center make their resignations public during a news conference to protest the dismissal of the center's director Maya Miminoshvili, who had been hailed as a model of incorruptibility by Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili |
| 30 May 2012 | Azerbaijan recalls its ambassador to Iran for “consultations” following Iran’s decision to recall its ambassador to Baku, also for consultations |
| 30 May 2012 | The Azerbaijani National Security Ministry says that terrorist attacks targeting the Eurovision Song Contest to be carried out by a terrorist group with links to Al-Qaeda were thwarted by the country’s secret services |
| 30 May 2012 | British Petroleum says that the flow of Azerbaijani natural gas to Turkey was halted due to an explosion that hit the line near the village of Sarikamis in Turkey |
| 31 May 2012 | Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili meets with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in Istanbul on the sideline of the Partners Forum of the UN Alliance of Civilizations to discuss bilateral cooperation as well as issues related to the stability and security of the region |
| June | |
| 4 June 2012 | The European Union and Georgia launch a visa liberalisation dialogue aimed at addressing all requirements for visa-free travel for Georgian citizens to the EU |
| 4 June 2012 | The Tbilisi City Hall announces a wireless network plan to cover the entire city of Tbilisi with free WiFi access before the end of 2012 |
| 4 June 2012 | US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton begins a tour of the three South Caucasus states in Armenia and expresses concern over the danger of escalation in the Nagorno Karabakh conflict, warning that force should not be used to resolve the conflict |
| 5 June 2012 | US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton backs the US training of Georgian coastal defence forces and urges Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili to hold free and fair parliamentary elections in 2012 during an official visit to Tbilisi |
| 5 June 2012 | The Azerbaijani Defence Ministry says that five Azerbaijani soldiers were killed in a shootout with armed men who allegedly tried to infiltrate Azerbaijan from Armenia |
| 6 June 2012 | US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says that the United States will recognize the status-neutral document issued by the Georgian government to allow residents of Abkhazia and South Ossetia to travel to Western countries |
| 6 June 2012 | The Defence Ministry of the disputed enclave of Nagorno Karabakh declares that one of its soldiers was killed and two wounded during shootouts with Azerbaijani forces |
| 8 June 2012 | No progress is reported after the twentieth round of the international Geneva talks focusing on the non-use of force and international security arrangements, with all the parties agreeing to a next round of talks after four months |
| 8 June 2012 | The Foreign Ministers of Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey meet in the Black Sea Coast city of Trabzon to sign a declaration on priority areas of cooperation for the three countries, including mutual support in international organizations and energy and transport projects |
| 10 June 2012 | The Georgian Dream opposition coalition, led by billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili, rallies in Georgia’s second largest town of Kutaisi with Ivanishvili saying in front of thousands of supporters that education, health and agriculture will be among the priorities in the state budget if the coalition comes to power |
| 11 June 2012 | Russian President Vladimir Putin signs a decree to create a new directorate in his office that will be responsible for relations with the CIS member states as well as the breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia |
| 11 June 2012 | The Tbilisi City Court imposes a 90.9 million dollar fine on opposition politician Bidzina Ivanishvili for violating Georgian electoral and party funding laws |
| 11 June 2012 | The Georgian state auditing agency says that a member of the ruling National Movement Party and Deputy Chairman of the Rustavi City Council violated the law on political parties by distributing wine and sheep to some local residents |
| 11 June 2012 | The state statistics office Geostat says that Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in Georgia increased by 55% year-to-year in the first three months of 2012 |
| 11 June 2012 | An Azerbaijani journalist working for an Iranian television channel is sentenced to two years in jail for possessing illegal drugs in Baku |
| 12 June 2012 | The chairman of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Eamon Gilmore calls on Azerbaijan and Armenia to refrain from violence amid a recent upsurge of incidents in the disputed region of Nagorno Karabakh |
| 13 June 2012 | The Azerbaijani Parliament amends the law on “commercial classified information” saying that corporate information can only be revealed with the permission of all individuals named in the records in a move that Azerbaijani activists say is designed to protect the family of Azerbaijani President Ihlam Aliyev from investigative reports into its business dealings |
| 13 June 2012 | The leader of the opposition movement Georgian Dream Bidzina Ivanishvili says that he will not pay the fine of 90.9 million dollars imposed on him by the Tbilisi City Court at the request of the state audit agency Chamber of Control |
| 14 June 2012 | The Russian Federal Migration Service says that there are more than 9,000 Georgians staying in Russia illegally |
| 18 June 2012 | The United States, France and Russia issue a joint statement to call on Armenia and Azerbaijan to “take decisive steps” to solve the conflict over the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh |
| 19 June 2012 | The Georgian education ministry announces that it will provide university grants in Georgia and abroad for those residents of the breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia who possess neutral identification and travel documents |
| 22 June 2012 | Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev signs a de1ree pardoning 66 prisoners, including activists convicted of participating in opposition rallies in 201 |
| 22 June 2012 | The Iranian embassy in Baku says that the Iranian ambassador has returned after he was recalled for consultations in Tehran |
| 26 June 2012 | Turkey and Azerbaijan sign a deal to build a 7 billion dollar Trans-Anatolian natural gas pipeline (TANAP) in the Turkish capital of Ankara to carry Azerbaijani gas to Europe bypassing Russia and Iran |
| 27 June 2012 | Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili visits Brussels and meets with the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Catherine Ashton |
| 29 June 2012 | The Georgian Parliament adopts “Georgia’s State Strategy on Relations with the Peoples of the North Caucasus” that outlines priority areas to boost ties between Tbilisi and the North Caucasus including trade, healthcare, education and human rights |
| 30 June 2012 | Long-time Interior Minister Vano Merabishvili is appointed as Georgia’s prime minister replacing Nika Gilauri |
| July | |
| 4 July 2012 | President of the European Council Herman Van Rompuy meets with Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili in Tbilisi as part of an official trip to the three South Caucasus countries and declares that the more Georgia reforms, the more the EU can help it |
| 9 July 2012 | Moldovan Prime Minister Vlad Filat visits Georgia and meets with new Georgian Prime Minister Vano Merabishvili to discuss bilateral issues, including the possible launch of direct air flights between Tbilisi and Chisinau |
| 10 July 2012 | New Georgian Defence Minister Dimitri Shashkin says in an interview with a Georgian newspaper that the country’s defence policy will be built around “three Ts”: total care, total training and total defence |
| 11 July 2012 | Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili expresses hope at a conference in Batumi that the EU will give Georgia a membership perspective during the next EU Eastern Partnership Summit in Vilnius |
| 16 July 2012 | Georgian Prime Minister Vano Merabishvili meets with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliev during an official visit in Baku |
| 18 July 2012 | Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili meets with Turkish Defence Minister İsmet Yılmaz in Batumi and talks about Turkey’s support for Georgia’s NATO integration |
| 19 July 2012 | Incumbent Bako Sahakian wins the presidential elections held in the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh with 66.7 percent of the votes |
| 19 July 2012 | The Georgian Foreign Ministry reaffirms Georgia’s support for Azerbaijan’s territorial integrity and states that it does not recognize the presidential elections in the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh |
| August | |
| 3 August 2012 | Retired army general and former presidential candidate in the 19 July elections in the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh, Vitaly Balasanian, launches a new opposition group |
| 5 August 2012 | Iran suspends visa-free travel rules for Georgian citizens for 26 days citing security reasons |
| 8 August 2008 | Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev visits the breakaway region of South Ossetia on the fourth anniversary of the Georgian–Russian war |
| 8 August 2012 | Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian says during talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow that the two countries have reached an understanding about the price of Russian natural gas to Armenia |
| 14 August 2012 | The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry rejects as a provocation claims in the Azerbaijani press that Ukraine sold rocket launchers and mobile missile systems to Armenia in 2011 |
| 17 August 2012 | The Azerbaijani prosecutor-general’s office says that it has launched a probe into the alleged poisoning of late Azerbaijani President Abulfaz Elcibey who led the country in 1992–93 |
| 19 August 2012 | Leader of the Georgian Dream opposition coalition Bidzina Ivanishvili meets with ex-parliamentary speaker and opposition leader Nino Burdjanadze |
| 21 August 2012 | Co-rapporteurs from the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) express concerns over the seizure of bank accounts belonging to political parties within the Georgian Dream opposition coalition in Georgia as well as the “disproportionate fines” levied by the State Audit Agency against opposition members |
| 22 August 2012 | The OSCE’s Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) announces the launch of an election observation mission for the 1 October parliamentary elections in Georgia |
| 23 August 2012 | Israel recognizes Georgia’s neutral travel documents for the citizens of the breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia |
| 24 August 2012 | Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Seyyid Abbas Eraqchi pays an official visit to Baku for talks about Iranian–Azerbaijani bilateral ties which could include the question of the detention of two Azerbaijani poets on charges of espionage in Iran |
| 24 August 2012 | The Turkish company TAV Airports Holding says that it would invest 65 million US dollars in the reconstruction of a third runaway at Tbilisi airport in exchange for the extension of its airport’s operation until late 2037 |
| 28 August 2012 | 22 Azerbaijanis are on trial in Azerbaijan for allegedly planning attacks on the US and Israeli embassies in Baku in connection with Iran’s Revolutionary Guards |
| 29 August 2012 | The Georgian Interior Ministry says that three security officers were killed during a battle with militants who had seized hostages in the Lopata Gorge area after entering Georgian territory from Russia |
| 29 August 2012 | The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) says that reports from Georgia about the infiltration of a group of armed militants from the Russian Republic of Dagestan into Georgian territory are provocative and groundless |
| 31 August 2012 | The Azerbaijani President’s quick pardon of the repatriated Azerbaijani killer of an Armenian army officer sparks a diplomatic row between Armenia and Hungary, where Lieutenant Ramil Safarov had been sentenced to life in prison before being returned to his country of origin. Azerbaijan had promised that he would serve the remainder of his term, but instead set him free |
| September | |
| 3 September 2012 | EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton and EU Commissioner for Enlargement and European Neighbourhood Štefan Füle say in a joint statement that the EU–Georgia dialogue on the Association Agreement that includes the deep and comprehensive free trade agreement and visa liberalization is “characterized by good progress” |
| 3 September 2012 | Russia’s Foreign Ministry criticizes Azerbaijan and Hungary for the release of an Azerbaijani officer sentenced to life for killing an Armenian officer |
| 5 September 2012 | The Foreign Ministers of Poland and Sweden on a visit in Georgia express their “firm hope” that the upcoming elections will be an improvement on previous polls held in Georgia |
| 5 September 2012 | New US ambassador Richard Norland arrives in Georgia |
| 6 September 2012 | NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen praises Georgia for its reforms, but says that the upcoming elections will be a “litmus test” for the country’s democracy |
| 7 September 2012 | NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen during an official visit to Baku says that he is “deeply concerned” over the pardoning of an Azerbaijani killer and adds that it damages trust and does not contribute to resolving the conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh |
| 10 September 2012 | The Russian Foreign Ministry says in a statement in reaction to NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen’s remarks in Tbilisi that Georgia may join the alliance in the future that NATO “has failed to learn the lessons” of the war of August 2008 |
| 13 September 2012 | The European Parliament passes a resolution saying that the decision of Azerbaijan to pardon an Azerbaijani officer who had killed an Armenian officer in Hungary eight years ago “could contribute to further escalation of the tensions” between the two South Caucasus countries |
| 13 September 2012 | The EU Monitoring Mission in Georgia (EUMM) extends its mandate for one more year, saying that the mission has made “a vital contribution to security and stability" on the ground |
| 16 September 2012 | The Collective Treaty Security Organization (CSTO) launches large-scale military exercises in Armenia |
| 16 September 2012 | Senior representatives of the opposition and ruling party in Georgia, including Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, attend the opening ceremony of the controversially rebuilt medieval Bagrati Cathedral in Georgia’s second largest city of Kutaisi |
| 17 September 2012 | The Foreign Ministers of five EU countries—Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Latvia, Lithuania and Romania—visit Georgia and meet with senior representatives of the ruling party and the opposition to highlight the importance of the upcoming parliamentary elections in Georgia |
| 17 September 2012 | The Foreign Minister of the breakaway region of Abkhazia Vyacheslav Chirikba says that the existing format of the international Geneva talks needs to be changed as it does not promote effective decision-making |
| 17 September 2012 | More than 140 people are taken to hospital after inhaling smoke during a fire at a shopping centre in the Azerbaijani capital of Baku |
| 18 September 2012 | A series of videos emerge in Georgia showing images of the beating and raping of prisoners in prison number 8 in Tbilisi |
| 18 September 2012 | The Azerbaijani authorities launch a probe into a fire that has killed at least two people with two others severely injured at an industrial plant in Azerbaijan’s city of Sumqayit |
| 19 September 2012 | The Georgian minister in charge of the prison system Khatuna Kalmakhelidze resigns after the appearance of video footage depicting prisoners’ abuse in a Tbilisi prison |
| 19 September 2012 | A protest rally calls for the resignation of several senior governmental officials in Tbilisi after the emergence of videos showing prisoners’ abuse in a Tbilisi prison |
| 19 September 2012 | Secretary of the Georgian National Security Council Giga Bokeria says that the authorities made “a grave mistake” by failing to assess the signals coming from the Public Defender on “systemic problems” in Georgia’s prisons |
| 20 September 2012 | Georgian Public Defender Giorgi Tugushi is appointed as the new minister in charge of the prison system |
| 20 September 2012 | Thousands of protesters, mostly students, take to the streets of Tbilisi in the second day of protests against prisoners’ abuse and demand more accountability for senior government officials |
| 20 September 2012 | Georgian Interior Minister Bacho Akhalaia, who had served as head of the Penitentiary Department of the Ministry of Justice of Georgia in 2005–2008, resigns amid protests against prison abuse |
| 21 September 2012 | The EU Monitoring Mission in Georgia (EUMM) says it observes a “build-up of Russian Federation armed personnel along the South Ossetian Administrative Boundary Line” |
| 21 September 2012 | The Georgian Foreign Ministry says in a statement that the Russian military build-up on the administrative borders with the breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia “increases the risk of dangerous provocation.” |
| 24 September 2012 | Azerbaijani, Georgian and Turkish troops held exercises near Ankara aimed at improving the security of energy pipelines in the region |
| 25 September 2012 | Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán visits Georgia and attends the opening of a reconstructed airport near Georgia’s second largest city of Kutaisi |
| 26 September 2012 | Azerbaijan’s prosecutor-general investigates allegations that lawmaker Gular Ahmedova had requested 1.3 million US dollars from an academic to secure him a seat in parliament as shown in a video posted on YouTube |
| 27 September 2012 | Armenian Prime Minister Tigran Sarkisian and European Commissioner for Enlargement and European Neighbourhood Policy Štefan Füle sign two financing agreements in Yerevan totalling 43 million Euros and focused on institution-building, including sectors such as customs administration, quality infrastructure, food safety and e-governance |
| 30 September 2012 | The Patriarch of the Georgian Orthodox Church calls for a high voter turnout during the parliamentary elections in Georgia |
| October | |
| 1 October 2012 | Parliamentary elections are held in Georgia with the Georgian Dream opposition coalition leading in the exit polls |
| 2 October 2012 | Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili concedes the defeat of the ruling party United National Movement (UNM) during the parliamentary elections in Georgia and adds that UNM is now going into opposition |
| 2 October 2012 | The US congratulates Georgia on “successful” parliamentary elections, saying that the polls represent “another milestone” in the country’s development towards democracy |
| 2 October 2012 | The Central Election Commission (CEC) releases early results of the parliamentary elections in Georgia with 54.89% for Georgian Dream and 42.42% for UNM |
| 2 October 2012 | The Armenian Parliament votes in favour of stripping opposition lawmaker Vartan Oskanian of his immunity to start a probe into money-laundering against him |
| 3 October 2012 | The flow of Azerbaijani natural gas via the Baku–Tbilisi–Erzurum pipeline is halted after an explosion hits the line near the Turkish village of Kars |
| 5 October 2012 | The Azerbaijani police clashes with protesters in Baku who had gathered in front of the Azerbaijani Education Ministry to protest the banning of Islamic head scarves for women in schools |
| 5 October 2012 | Georgian Dream (GD) leader Bidzina Ivanishvili meets with NATO liaison officer William Lahue in Tbilisi and reiterates GD’s commitment to Georgia’s NATO integration |
| 6 October 2012 | Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian accuses Azerbaijan of preparing for war in the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh in an interview with the Reuters news agency |
| 8 October 2012 | Former Armenian foreign minister and prominent opposition lawmaker Vartan Oskanian is summoned by Armenia’s National Security Council and charged with misappropriating 1.4 million US dollars donated by a US philanthropist to his foundation in Yerevan |
| 9 October 2012 | Twenty-two Azerbaijani citizens are sentenced to prison terms of 10 to 15 years for planning terrorist attacks against the US and Israeli embassies in Baku |
| 10 October 2012 | Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks with Bidzina Ivanishvili and Mikheil Saakashvili on the phone to congratulate Ivanishvili on his election victory and reiterate Turkey’s readiness to provide full support to Georgia’s Euro-Atlantic integration |
| 11 October 2012 | The twenty first round of the Geneva international talks is held amid the on-going government handover process in Georgia with two representatives of the Georgian Dream coalition included in the Georgian delegation |
| 11 October 2012 | Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev criticizes a consortium led by British Petroleum (BP) for “numerous mistakes” that have led to a production slump at the Azeri-Chirag-Guneshli oil field |
| 12 October 2012 | The eighteenth Georgian soldier dies in Afghanistan since the country’s troops have joined the NATO-led operations in November 2009 |
| 15 October 2012 | The EU says that it is ready to provide advice to the incoming government in Georgia and maintain momentum in the negotiations on an Association Agreement and visa liberalization talks at a meeting of EU foreign ministers in Luxembourg |
| 15 October 2012 | Azerbaijani Energy Minister Natiq Aliev says that there should be a tighter oversight over the work of an international consortium led by BP at the Azeri-Chirag-Gunsehli field due to “abnormal” production volumes |
| 16 October 2012 | The Georgian presidential press office says that Mikheil Saakashvili has restored the Georgian citizenship of prime ministerial nominee Bidzina Ivanishvili |
| 16 October 2012 | Prime ministerial nominee Bidzina Ivanishvili says that Georgia will take part in the 22nd Winter Olympics in the Russian city of Sochi in 2014 |
| 18 October 2012 | Georgian Dream leader Bidzina Ivanishvili declares that his first foreign trip in his capacity as Georgia’s Prime Minister will be to Brussels instead of his originally intended visit to the US after a meeting with visiting EU Commissioner for Enlargement and European Neighbourhood Policy Štefan Füle |
| 18 October 2012 | NATO Secretary General’s Special Representative for the Caucasus and Central Asia James Appathurai says that parliamentary elections had been a litmus test for Georgia and a “very important part of this test has been passed” |
| 20 October 2012 | The police in Baku arrest at least 30 people during an unauthorized rally in the capital organized by opposition and independent youth groups calling for the dissolution of the Azerbaijani Parliament after a video was shown of a ruling-party lawmaker asking a bribe in exchange for securing a seat in parliament |
| 20 October 2012 | The Georgian Public Broadcaster suspends the contract on operations of the Russian-language TV channel Kanal PIK |
| 21 October 2012 | Georgia’s new Parliament holds its first session in the city of Kutaisi and elects David Usupashvili from the Georgian Dream coalition as the new parliamentary speaker |
| 21 October 2012 | Six factions are formed in the newly elected Parliament in Georgia with three from the Georgian Dream parliamentary majority and three from the United National Movement party |
| 22 October 2012 | Acting Georgian Defence Minister Dimitri Shashkin announces that he has decided to leave the country |
| 24 October 2012 | Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with the leader of the breakaway region of South Ossetia Leonid Tibilov in Moscow |
| 25 October 2012 | The Georgian Parliament confirms Bidzina Ivanishvili as new Prime Minister with 88 votes to 54 |
| 25 October 2012 | A building under construction in the Armenian capital of Yerevan collapses, injuring 11 workers |
| 26 October 2012 | Georgia’s new Foreign Minister Maia Panjikidze declares that Tbilisi will not restore diplomatic relations with Moscow while Russia has embassies in the breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia |
| 26 October 2012 | The Tbilisi City Council (Sakrebulo) approves the mayor office’s proposal to halve for the next five months the waste collection fee |
| 27 October 2012 | The Azerbaijan and Armenian Foreign Ministers meet in France to discuss the issue of the disputed region of Nagorno Karabakh in a meeting mediated by the co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group |
| 29 October 2012 | Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian accuses some prosecutors and law enforcement officers of having links with organized crime groups during a televised meeting at the prosecutor’s general office |
| 29 October 2012 | The Azerbaijani State Border Guard Service says that an Iranian national was arrested after a shootout between Azerbaijani guards and an armed group |
| 31 October 2012 | The Russian Interior Ministry announces the firing of the entire leadership of a district police department in Moscow following the arrests of three police officers on suspicion of murdering an Azerbaijani citizen in September 2012 and trying to sell his car |
| November | |
| 1 November 2012 | The Azerbaijan’s state oil company SOCAR buys Itera-Georgia and becomes the sole distributor of natural gas in Georgia with the exception of the capital Tbilisi |
| 2 November 2012 | The Azerbaijani Parliament adopts amendments to the law on public gatherings to increase fines up to 10,000 US dollars for participating in and organising unsanctioned public demonstrations |
| 7 November 2012 | Former Georgian Defence Minister and Interior Minister Bacho Akhalaia is arrested in an investigation into alleged multiple cases of exceeding official powers |
| 7 November 2012 | Joint Chief of Staff of the Georgian Armed Forces Brigadier-General Giorgi Kalandadze is arrested in an investigation into an alleged case of exceeding official powers |
| 8 November 2012 | Turkey orders the landing of an Armenian aircraft flying to Syria to search its cargo in an effort to prevent its airspace being used to carry military supplies to Syria |
| 12 November 2012 | Georgian Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili visits Brussels on his first foreign trip to meet with President of the European Council Herman Van Rompuy, President of the European Commission José Manuel Barroso and EU Commissioner for Enlargement and European Neighbourhood Štefan Füle |
| 12 November 2012 | NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen says that he is “extremely concerned” over the recent arrests of high officials from the former government in Georgia |
| 14 November 2012 | The Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry spokesman Elman Abdullayev says that a note will be handed to Uruguay’s Foreign Minister to protest the visit by an official Uruguayan delegation to the disputed region of Nagorno Karabakh |
| 15 November 2012 | Several officials from the Georgian Interior Ministry, including high-ranking officers, are arrested after being questioned by prosecutors |
| 23 November 2012 | An advisory commission in Mexico City recommends the removal of a public statue of the late Azerbaijani President Heydar Aliev |
| 26 November 2012 | EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton visits Georgia and meets with Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili and Georgian Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili to discuss EU–Georgia relations before a visit to Central Asia |
| 26 November 2012 | The Georgian Ministry of Defence says that Defence Minister Irakli Alasania is on an official visit in Afghanistan to meet with Georgian troops serving under the NATO-led ISAF mission |
| 28 November 2012 | The new Georgian Interior Minister Irakli Garibashvili says that the crime situation in the country is not deteriorating following the change of government in November 2012 |
| 29 November 2012 | Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov visits Armenia and holds talks with Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian on trade and energy issues |
| 30 November 2012 | The Georgian prosecutor’s office says that the former chief of police in the Georgian town of Borjomi is arrested for the alleged abuse of a detainee |
| December | |
| 4 December 2012 | Four Azerbaijani citizens are sentenced for terrorism and high treason in Azerbaijan’s capital of Baku after they are found guilty of preparing attacks on the eve of the Eurovision Song Contest in Baku and of having links with members of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps |
| 4 December 2012 | NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen says that Georgia has passed an important test with the parliamentary elections of November 2012, but speaks of the necessity of a “smooth cohabitation” between Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili and the new government |
| 6 December 2012 | The Georgian Ministry of Defence says that its internal investigations unit has found evidence of corrupt schemes in arms procurements made at the time when Bacho Akhalaia served as Defence Minister |
| 6 December 2012 | Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili meets with Polish President Bronisław Komorowski in Warsaw to discuss the deepening of bilateral relations between the two countries as well as recent internal developments in Georgia |
| 7 December 2012 | The Georgian Parliament passes a draft law on amnesty in its first reading that envisages different forms of amnesty for Georgian prisoners |
| 7 December 2012 | Former Georgian Prime Minister Vano Merabishvili is summoned to answer questions regarding the alleged use of a fake passport by the investigative unit of the Interior Ministry |
| 8 December 2012 | The Georgian Interior Ministry says that a former officer of the Interior Ministry’s Department for Constitutional Security who is wanted in Georgia on charges of allegedly beating up police officers was arrested in Kiev on 7 December 2012 |
| 9 December 2012 | Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says that contacts are planned with the Georgian Prime Minister’s Special Representative for Relations with Russia in the “nearest future” to clarify the “context” in which Tbilisi is willing to normalize its relations with Moscow |
| 10 December 2012 | The Azerbaijan Foreign Ministry says that an agreement with Russia to use the Qabala early-warning radar station expired on 9 December 2012 after Moscow had shown no interest in renewing the deal |
| 10 December 2012 | The Azerbaijani police disperses an unsanctioned gathering of opposition activists trying to mark Human Rights Day in a central Baku square |
| 12 December 2012 | The twenty second round of the international Geneva talks is held on security and humanitarian issues with representatives from Georgia, Russia, the United States and the breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia |
| 12 December 2012 | The leader of the Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) Gagik Tsarukian says that he will not run for President in the Armenian presidential elections in February 2013 |
| 12 December 2012 | Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt, Bulgarian Foreign Minister Nickolay Mladenov and the head of the Polish president’s chancellery Jacek Michalowski visit Georgia as part of a trip to the three South Caucasus countries |
| 13 December 2012 | The Russian Federal Investigative Committee accuses Georgian parliamentary deputy Givi Targamadze of conspiring with Russian activists to organize protests in Russia |
| 14 December 2012 | The Georgian Prime Minister’s special representative Zurab Abashidze and the Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin meet in Switzerland to discuss trade, economy and humanitarian issues |
| 19 December 2012 | Former energy and finance minister Alexander Khetaguri and the director general of Rustavi 2 TV Nika Gvaramia are arrested on corruption charges in Georgia |
| 20 December 2012 | Russian President Vladimir Putin says that the issue of the import of Georgian products to the Russian market should be “depoliticized” |
| 21 December 2012 | The Georgian Parliament passes with its third and final reading a law envisaging several forms of amnesty for prisoners in Georgia |
| 21 December 2012 | Georgian Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili says that there are some question marks regarding the construction of the Baku–Akhalkalaki–Kars railway which will link Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey |
| 23 December 2012 | Workers at the oil terminal in the Georgian Black Sea Coast city of Kulevi go on strike demanding to receive the same pay as foreign workers as well as better working conditions |
| 26 December 2012 | Georgian Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili visits Azerbaijan to hold talks with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev |
| 25 December 2012 | The leader of the Armenian National Congress (HAK) opposition movement and former Armenian President Levon Ter-Petrossian says that he will not run for President in the presidential elections of February 2013 |
| 27 December 2012 | Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili says that he will not sign the parliamentary bill on amnesty into law |
| 27 December 2012 | Armenian Public Council Chairman Vazgen Manukian says that he regrets the lack of alternatives to Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian in the upcoming presidential elections on 18 February 2013 |
| 29 December 2012 | A Georgian soldier who went missing in Afghanistan on 19 December is found dead, bringing the number of Georgian soldiers who have died in Afghanistan to 19 |
| 31 December 2012 | Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili arrives in Afghanistan to spend New Year’s eve with the Georgian troops deployed there |
