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TSKHINVAL Shelling of the South Ossetian village Otrev from the Georgian territory causes concern of the South Ossetian population who “are afraid of the repetition of the August 2008 events,” spokeswoman for the South Ossetian Defence Ministry Galina Guchmazova told the Vesti news television channel in an interview. “Taking into …

The four-wheel drive sweeps past the group of Russian tourists climbing to the ruins of the Anakopia fortress overlooking what Abkhazia says was once the capital of its ancient kingdom. Alkhas Argun steps out to inspect his work, restoring the pale stone walls of the fortress, a symbol of the …

A year after the brief war opposing Georgia and Russia, leading experts warned that EU leaders should be prepared to mediate in potential conflict zones ahead of general elections to be held in Moldova tomorrow (29 July). Summer conflicts are not a regular “holiday thing” for Europe but there are …

MOSCOW A Russian foreign ministry official said Tuesday that any United States participation in the European Union’s monitoring mission in Georgia would be “extremely harmful,” and increase the likelihood that violence would flare up in the breakaway border regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. 

TBILISI It would be a stretch to say Mikheil Saakashvili has been humbled. But almost a year after Georgia’s war with Russia, the flamboyant president, like his country, cuts a more modest figure. The five-day war dashed the former Soviet republic’s hopes of taking back control of the rebel regions …

On a visit to Georgia, the US Vice President has vowed strong support for the country, a year after its war with Russia. But he has also touched on tense internal politics. Joe Biden made a point of meeting members of the opposition, who have complained that President Mikheil Saakashvili …

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Friday reiterated Moscow’s negative stance on the possibility of weapons supplies to Georgia from abroad. “I have repeatedly commented on the issue of Georgia’s rearmament,” the foreign minister said. “I proceed from the fact that those who supplied Saakashvili’s regime with arms that were …

Next week, US Vice President Joe Biden will visit Ukraine and Georgia. According to US Vice President’s Counselor, Tony Blinken, Joe Biden will deliver statements focusing on relations between Ukraine and Georgia in Kiev and Tbilisi. US Vice President has scheduled meetings with Ukrainian and Georgian leaders, as well as …

TBILISI Georgian opposition leader and former U.N. ambassador Irakly Alasania launched his own political party on Thursday, saying long-standing protests demanding the Georgian president’s resignation were not in vain.

SUKHUMI Nearly a year after Georgia’s war with Russia, the leader of Georgia’s biggest rebel region is determined Tbilisi will never rule his land again.Shrugging off international calls for Georgia’s territorial integrity to be respected, de facto Abkhaz President Sergei Bagapsh told Reuters in an interview that the West needed …