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Upon the initiative of Union of Armenians in Romania and RA Embassy, the Writer’s Union of Romania hosted the presentation of Contemporary Armenian Fiction Antalogy.

GENEVA Georgia and Russia resumed security talks yesterday after mediators and a UN report helped nudge Moscow’s negotiators back to the table, officials said. All sides agreed to meet again on July 1 for talks intended to head off any further conflict in an area seen by the West as …

Foreign Ministers from the 27 European Union (EU) member states opened their monthly meeting in Brussels on Monday morning to prepare for the EU-Russia summit later this week, and international issues including the latest development in Moldova, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Iran and Georgia. The EU-Russia summit is scheduled to be …

WASHINGTON US Vice President Joe Biden encouraged Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvilli to continue outreach to opposition protesters and efforts at dialogue with the non-parliamentary opposition.

TBILISI The OSCE donated equipment for dismantling and recycling obsolete TNT-filled munitions to the Georgian Defence Ministry today. “This equipment will enable the Georgian Defence Ministry to recycle TNT-filled warheads in order to deal with this environmental threat in an effective way,” said Ambassador Terhi Hakala, the Head of the …

Armenian-Turkish reconciliation and settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict are linked to implementation of the Nabucco project, told a political scientist Suren Zolian a news conference in Yerevan.

Georgian Defense Minister David Sikharulidze attended the opening ceremony of NATO exercise which kicked off in Viziani base on May 11. Before the ceremony, NATO representatives said they the Alliance will not sever relations with Russia, although its position is not understandable, Civil.ge reported. The exercise will last till June …

Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili agreed to meet opposition leaders on Monday after a month of street protests in the former Soviet republic. Clashes on Wednesday between police and protesters, a day after a brief, bloodless mutiny at a tank base outside Tbilisi, have fuelled fears of wider anti-government unrest in …

MOSCOW Georgian troops did not attack Russian peacekeepers in South Ossetia during Tbilisi’s assault on the separatist republic in August 2008, Georgia’s president said Monday on Ekho Moskvy radio. “With full responsibility I can say there were never any and there could not have been any attacks on Russian peacekeepers,” …

Loyalty to a common historical heritage could help mend ties between ex-Soviet Georgia and Russia damaged by a brief war last August, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev told Georgian World War Two veterans on Friday. In a special message to the veterans, Medvedev recalled the Soviet Union’s role during the war …