Russia appears to have little appetite for raising the stakes in South Ossetia, a breakaway region of Georgia it recognised as independent in 2008 and which this week said is mulling a referendum on becoming part of Russia. Moscow has been quick to...
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It’s all too easy to forget that millions of people already live under Russian occupation in large parts of Ukraine, as well as Georgia and Moldova. Russia may be...
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...
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...
