Home
RSS
Venezuela will recognise the breakaway Georgian regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, President Hugo Chavez says.
Venezuela will become the third country to support their controversial independence declarations, after Russia and Nicaragua.
Mr...
Related Stories
Most Recent
Most Popular
Most Commented
11
Star It 
(0)
The youngest of five children, he was only 8 when his father died.
For three decades, he’d carried with him mere snapshots of memories: Family time at Christmas....
made popular Oct 3 2009
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...
made popular Oct 1 2009
Mr. Gay Russia, David Baramija, won Wednesday’s No 1 Talent competition in Mr. Gay Europe 2009. in Oslo, Norway.
David Baramija, picture of Internet
According to...
made popular Sep 16 2009
The conventional view of human evolution and how early man colonised the world has been thrown into doubt by a series of stunning palaeontological discoveries...
made popular Sep 9 2009
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...
made popular Aug 13 2009
Ayear on from last August’s war, the evidence on the ground shows that despite claims to the contrary, tiny South Ossetia has effectively been absorbed into...
made popular Aug 10 2009
Georgia’s pro-Western President said yesterday that , remained determined to kill him as part of ambitions to restore Russia’s former Soviet empire.
In an...
made popular Aug 8 2009
As the first anniversary of the Russian invasion of Georgia draws closer, tensions are again rising in South Ossetia, the breakaway territory over which the war last...
made popular Aug 7 2009
When the dull throb of homesickness becomes too overpowering to resist, the former inhabitants of Eredvi perform a bittersweet ritual.
Clambering up a steep hill...
made popular Aug 3 2009
America’s Vice-President Joseph Biden visited the Georgian capital of Tbilisi on Thursday and declared his strong support for the Georgian people in their war...
made popular Jul 24 2009
Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili urged the United States on Tuesday to supply his country with advanced defensive weapons, warning on the eve of a visit by Vice...
made popular Jul 22 2009
Demonstrations against President Mikhail Saakashvili continued fifth day on April 13th in Georgia. Consolidated opposition demands president’s resignation, early...
made popular Apr 15 2009
I was watching Friday (7th November 2008) news from Georgia’s capital Tbilisi where some 10,000 demonstrators were marching against current political leadership...
made popular Nov 18 2008
The war with Russia might have been brutal and brief for tiny Georgia yet the economic and political repercussions are enormous with the Georgian opposition blaming...
made popular Nov 8 2008
The Caucasus remains to be tense as a powerful blast rocked the North Ossetian capital of Vladkavkaz killing at least eleven people and injuring several others. The ...
made popular Nov 7 2008
Georgia said Thursday Russia had deployed 2,000 additional troops into South Ossetia in the past week and was preparing “provocations” in the breakaway...
made popular Oct 24 2008
The International Court of Justice in The Hague has rejected a request from Georgia to prosecute Russia over the conflict in the Caucasus. The court also called for...
made popular Oct 17 2008
IN ECONOMIC theory the winner’s curse refers to the idea that someone who places the winning bid in an auction may have paid too much. Consider, for example, bids to...
made popular Oct 10 2008
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...
made popular Oct 9 2008
Muslim honor killings of daughters came to Georgia last month.A Pakistani immigrant who strangled his daughter because she wanted to end her arranged marriage did it...
made popular Oct 7 2008
All Stories
Most Recent
Most Popular
Most Commented
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...
made popular Aug 27 2008
Related Tags
Abkhazia Cold War EU Europe Geo Georgia Georgian Moscow Pictorial politics Politics & Society rgia Russia Russian South South Ossetia tbilisi Tskhinvali U.S.A World
Images
Gori:
In this Aug. 9, 2008 file photo, a wounded Georgian woman lies in front of an apartment building, damaged by a Russian airstrike, in the northern Georgian town of Gori.
