Kavkaz News

The recently published Russian government strategy paper for the North Caucasus chooses to focus solely on the socio-economic development of the region. The refusal to address key political or religious issues undermines the whole rationale for the document, laments Sergei Markedonov for openDemocracy. On 4 October 2010 the Russian Federation …

Georgia on Monday arrested 20 individuals that are suspected of conspiring to pass secret information to Russia. According to Russian media reports, 20 individuals, all of them Georgians, were arrested by local police forces after they organized and formed a spy network to favor Russia. However, Georgian officials declined to either …

The National Security Council of Turkey has taken Georgia and Armenia out of its list of neighboring countries which pose security threats, according to news reports reaching here Monday. The Turkish security council had earlier approved of the change in the list, which previously included Georgia and

Tbilisi will host a conference on the topic “Are we approaching to Europe?” today. At the event the results of the research “Economic and social policy in Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan”, along with the Georgian experts will also be presented by experts from Armenia and Azerbaijan.

The prospects for bilateral political and economic cooperation will be considered in Baku. The negotiations will be held within Greek Deputy Foreign Minister Spyros Kouvelis’s visit to Azerbaijan on November 28-29. Kouvelis, as a co-chairman of the intergovernmental

If the Transnistria problem is resolved in a near future, this will tell positively on the settling of the Nagorny Karabakh conflict, believes President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev. He said yesterday that if even one of the existing several regional conflicts in the FSU area is resolved, this will give

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev’s official visit to Ukraine started today. He took part in the wreath-laying ceremony to the Grave of Unknown Soldier in Park of Glory and ceremony of honoring a memory of Holodomors victims in

Romania hosted an international conference on Azerbaijan’s role in energy security of Europe. The event was held in Bucharest with the organizational support of the State Committee for Diaspora of Azerbaijan and the Romanian-Azerbaijani Association of Culture and Youth, the Azerbaijani Embassy in Romania reported.

Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili said that he is ready to negotiate with Russia. “It is necessary to start talking. And we have stated this always, though Russia is an occupant and invader and has expelled many people of different nations from their houses. Meanwhile, Russia states that it has come …

The Georgian side has once again fixed its interest in the OSCE mission’s return to Georgia at the OSCE summit in Vienna, Nino Kalandadze, Deputy Foreign Minister, said at a briefing today. She said that the ongoing