News.Az interviews Vladimir Socor, senior fellow on the Eurasia Programme at US thinktank the Jamestown Foundation. Baku thinks that ensuring the security of NATO partner states, including Azerbaijan, is a problem. What can be done about this?
MAP for Georgia to be discussed in December In December in Brussels the NATO Foreign Ministers will discuss the question of MAP for Ukraine and Georgia. James Appaturay, Official representative of NATO declared today.
On November 9, as the Germans were celebrating the 20th anniversary of the unification of their homeland and the Western world was engaged in jubilant festivities with the old and new leaders of Russia to commemorate the end of the Cold War, Moscow's influential news agency ITA …
After the Russo-Georgian War in August 2008, the European Union found itself in a difficult position. Moscow had not only invaded a neighbor for the first time since the Soviet assault on Afghanistan in 1979.
Despite international criticism, the Kremlin continues its policy of creeping annexation of the Georgian territories of Abkhazia and Tskhinvali.
On the morning of Aug. 8, 2008, soldiers from Russia's 58th Army poured into the breakaway Georgian province of South Ossetia and then rapidly fanned out into Georgia itself, coming to within a few miles of Tbilisi.
In response to a question as to whether Ankara and Moscow have reached a deal to recognize Abkhazia and the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, the Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov stated: "Russia will not enter a deal implying the recognition of Northern Cyprus in excha …
French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said Russia may buy a French assault ship, a move that would be greeted with unease by Georgia and the United States.
Nineteen thirty-nine was not a good year. World War II started, and much of the world was still in the Depression. The leaders of too many countries were either despots or naive and weak.
A year ago, the European Union helped mediate an end to a war that left 850 Georgians (including South Ossetians) and Russians dead and 138,000 displaced.
The EU-Fact finding Mission lead by Swiss diplomat Ms. Heidi Tagliavini has finished it's work, and their report was presented to the public today. Analysts anticipated that the report would blame both sides. It of course did.
Statement by the Government of Georgia on the Release of the EU-Sponsored Report on Russia's 2008 Invasion of Georgia
BRUSSELS — Georgia sparked a five-day war with Russia last year by attacking rebel South Ossetia, an investigating team said Wednesday, but it also blamed Russia for violating international law.
On September 23 the pro- Kremlin news agency Regnum published an interview with Gairbek Salbiev, who allegedly leads an organization called Darial Public Movement.
An international report to be released Wednesday on last year's war between Russia and Georgia will place responsibility for the conflict on both countries, according to a person close to the Geneva-based fact-finding mission.
Tensions between Russia and Georgia rose Tuesday after Russia warned that it would detain Georgian ships entering what it called the territorial waters of Abkhazia, a breakaway province allied with Moscow, news agencies reported.
The attack on the Russian-speaking Georgian blogger who calls himself Cyxymu, or Georgi (interviewed here by my Faster Times colleague Will Dunbar) was, by the standards of previous episodes, small-scale and isolated.
Moscow finds that recommendations of the Belarusian Foreign Ministry to its citizens to observe Georgian laws in Abkhazia and South Ossetia inappropriate. It has been stated on Wednesday by a source in the Kremlin, RIA Novosti informs.
US Vice President Joe Biden says that Moscow has no choice but to make concessions to the West, as Russia is facing a "withering" economy.
A month after his speech in Cairo reaching out to the Muslim world, Barack Obama will make another historic trip: this time, to Moscow.
Russian Military Chief Accuses Georgia of Preparing Aggression The top Russian military commander, the Chief of the General Staff and First Deputy Defense Minister Army-General Nikolai Makarov during the Paris air show this week said: "Georgia is saber-rattling and preparing wea …
President Obama is headed to Moscow in early July for his first ever U.S.-Russia summit.
ARTICLE EN COURS DE TRADUCTION.
US President Barack Obama will travel to Moscow July 6-8 on the first real test of his attempt to "reset" US-Russian relations. At the Kremlin, Obama must articulate what is negotiable and what is not.
After the Russo-Georgian War in August 2008, the European Union found itself in a difficult position. Moscow had not only invaded a neighbor for the first time since the Soviet assault on Afghanistan in 1979.
Despite international criticism, the Kremlin continues its policy of creeping annexation of the Georgian territories of Abkhazia and Tskhinvali.
On the morning of Aug. 8, 2008, soldiers from Russia's 58th Army poured into the breakaway Georgian province of South Ossetia and then rapidly fanned out into Georgia itself, coming to within a few miles of Tbilisi.
In response to a question as to whether Ankara and Moscow have reached a deal to recognize Abkhazia and the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, the Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov stated: "Russia will not enter a deal implying the recognition of Northern Cyprus in excha …
French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said Russia may buy a French assault ship, a move that would be greeted with unease by Georgia and the United States.
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