Handing out passports to Russians living in the occupied territories of Ukraine, Georgia and Moldova offers the Kremlin a convenient excuse to exert further pressure on its neighbours. Over three days in September, the Russian Federation held a...
Tag - South Ossetia
Just a few metres from Georgia’s heavily-fortified border with Russian-occupied South Ossetia, an Orthodox bishop is using culture – and his love for...
Georgia has turned to soft power in an attempt to woo its breakaway territories of Abkhazia and South Ossetia back to the fold. The 1990s was a grim, turbulent and...
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg has told the Georgian prime minister Giorgi Gakharia to “make full use” of all the opportunities to move closer to...
Aslan Bzhania, an opposition leader, has been elected president of Abkhazia, one of two Georgian regions occupied by Russia. According to the Central Election Commission...
Georgia’s president, Salome Zurabishvili, the country’s prime minister Giorgi Gakharia and foreign minister Davit Zalkaliani have all welcomed a bill passed by the US...
Georgia’s foreign minister, Davit Zalkaliani (pictured above), has said that direct flights to and from Russia, which were halted by the Russian president Vladimir Putin...
Davit Zalkaliani and Sergey Lavrov, the foreign ministers of Georgia and Russia, have held talks for the first time since the outbreak of the 2008 war between the two...
Former NATO secretary general Anders Fogh Rasmussen has suggested that Georgia should launch a public dialogue about the possibility of joining the military alliance...
Estonia’s president Kersti Kaljulaid has said that the European Union should be open to further integration, making the case for Georgia’s potential accession, the...
The European Union’s Monitoring Mission in Georgia and the State Department of the United States have called on Russia to prevent any further escalation along the...
Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili has called an election in the Russian-occupied region of Abkhazia “a sham.” “The Abkhaz authorities are de facto...
