Eurasia Press & News

TEHRAN (FNA)- A senior Iranian official said that Tehran is striving to help provide security in the region of Caucasus.

Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of CRI (Chechen Republic of Ichkeria) in the government of President Aslan Maskhadov, Akhmed Zakayev, may soon return to Chechnya.

US President George W. Bush, fresh from declaring Russia’s offensive in Georgia “completely unacceptable,” was to map out a response Saturday in talks with his top national security aides.

A U.S. human rights group on Friday accused Russia of dropping cluster bombs in populated areas of Georgia during its military offensive that began last week, but Moscow denied the charge. Human Rights Watch said Russian aircraft had used cluster bombs in two separate raids on the towns of Ruisi …

 Belarus, Kazakhstan and others in the Commonwealth of Independent States remained silent for days after the fighting erupted last week as they scrambled to formulate positions.

On picture: Members of pro-Moscow Abkhaz formations.   The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia calls upon the international community to stop Russian actions aimed at destroying the Georgian statehood. The ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia released an official statement on Saturday.

The Russian-Georgian conflict over control of the Georgian breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia has become an international crisis. The United States, the European Union, Ukraine, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Turkey are now involved in the conflict in various ways, in addition to Russia and Georgia. Other forces in the …

Russian forces have sunk several vessels in Georgia’s military port of Poti, Al Jazeera’s Hoda Abdel Hamid has reported from the scene.   The attack on Wednesday follows a day of dramatic developments in the Russia-Georgia conflict amid what appears to be an escalation of military action on the ground.

Mikheil Saakashvili, Georgia’s president, has told tens of thousands of people at a rally outside the country’s parliament that Georgia will quit the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and urged Ukraine to follow suit.

On this photo Kvachkov looks very much like a Hollywood character: Dr. Hannibal Lecktor    Colonel of Russia’s Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU), Vladimir Kvachkov, who was recently acquitted of charges with an assassination attempt on Anatoly Chibais, announced last Friday that he resumes his “military and political work”, as Russian media …