A new player has emerged in the roiling political theater of the Caucasus: the tiny, destitute Pacific island nation of Nauru, which on Tuesday became the fourth...

As a European Union report into last year’s conflict between Georgia and Russia puts a large part of the blame on Georgia, the BBC’s Tom Esslemont in...

Venezuela will recognise the breakaway Georgian regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, President Hugo Chavez says. Venezuela will become the third country to support...

On his first postwar visit to Abkhazia, one of the separatist territories at the center of last year’s war with Georgia, Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin pledged at...

As the EU’s Friday deadline approaches for Russia to withdraw from the buffer zones around Georgia’s breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, there...

During the past couple of years the U.S. appears to be operating in a more preemptive style of foreign policy. In constrast to the gung-ho, bomb you if you disagree...

President Dmitry Medvedev has declared that Russia formally recognises the independence of the breakaway Georgian regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.

Russia has warned it will retaliate if Georgia uses force against its breakaway regions. Moscow has accused Georgia of preparing to invade Abkhazia, and says it is...