Dmitry Medvedev, Russia’s president, yesterday called the country’s economic crisis a “test of maturity” for its businessmen. He urged them to “make sacrifices” to save jobs. “People have been getting very rich in a very short time,” he said in an interview with the head of Russia’s state-owned Channel One …

GENEVA — Tens of thousands of Georgians who fled last year’s war with Russia in breakaway South Ossetia will probably not be able to go home unless a political solution to the conflict is found, a United Nations official said Friday. Walter Kaelin, the UN secretary-general’s representative on the human …

TBILISI, Georgia — President Mikheil Saakashvili said he would not prevent Russian companies, including power trader Inter RAO and gas producer Itera, from investing in Georgia, rejecting criticism that their control of utilities was a threat to security. “We’re not going to hinder Russian companies from coming to Georgia,” Saakashvili …