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Ukraine has received about $800 million of profit from the export of arms in 2008. Sergey Bondarchuk, the chairman of the state-run company Ukrspetsexport, said that the nation’s arms export in 2007 brought the profit of $700 million and nearly $800 million – in 2008. Ukraine has recently expanded the …

BRUSSELS, Belgium The European Commission is to fund projects worth a total of 40 million euros (56 million dollars) in countries along its Eastern border, among them Russia and Georgia, officials in Brussels said Friday. The money will be used for initiatives such as improving air quality, preventing drug abuse …

Russia has begun war games in its North Caucasus region neighbouring Georgia, in a warning to foes that the military remains on standby for any new conflict in the area. Dubbed Caucasus 2009, the week-long exercises that began on Monday are just north of the border where Russia and Georgia …

“One of Georgia’s principal goals is to change demographic situation in Javakhk,” Head of Hay Dat office Kiro Manoyan told a news conference. According to him, Georgian church is also trying to assist in the process. but its attempts meet the population’s mounting protests. 

On July 2 OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Greek Foreign Minister Dora Bakoyannis will arrive in Armenia. As press service of the Yerevan office of OSCE told to a PanARMENIAN.Net reporter, OSCE Chairperson-in-Office will arrive in Yerevan immediately after paying visit to Baku. “ OSCE Chairperson-in-Office will not go to Georgia, since activities …

Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov said he had been ordered by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev to fight insurgents in the neighbouring region of Ingushetia after its leader was gravely wounded in a bomb attack. Kadyrov’s harsh tactics have brought relative stability to Chechnya since he was elected in 2007 after more …

Russia on Tuesday defended its proposal for a new security structure in Europe and said it was not aimed at undermining the U.S.-led NATO alliance, but rather at banishing division on the continent. The United States and NATO reacted sharply last year to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev’s call for a …

GENEVA Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov arrived in Switzerland on Wednesday for talks with his Swiss counterpart that will include the situation in Georgia, the Swiss Foreign Ministry said.

The Obama administration on Monday reaffirmed support for Georgia’s sovereignty and territorial integrity while it pursues better relations with Russia — Georgia’s adversary in last year’s military conflict. The White House says Vice President Joe Biden will visit Georgia next month after President Barack Obama’s summit visit to Moscow.  

WASHINGTON US Vice President Joe Biden will travel to Georgia and Ukraine next month for talks on boosting the former Soviet republics’ economies and supporting democratic reforms, his office said Monday. Both trips involve political sensitivities with Russia, and the visit would come shortly after US President Barack Obama travels …