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Truth about Georgia from behind the lens
2009-06-07
While critics of the Georgian government say authorities continue to intimidate the shrinking independent media, there's one documentary maker who won't be pressured into concealing the truth.
Georgia: policemen injured during protest
2009-06-01
Georgian officials say several police officers have been stabbed during this week's opposition protest in Tbilisi. A group broke away from a demonstration outside the parliament building and beat up a policeman.
Georgian police rampant
2009-05-24
In Georgia, almost three dozen people have been arrested in connection with a tank battalion mutiny earlier this month. Opposition and rights activists are demanding a criminal investigation into police actions.
Georgian mutiny suspect killed
2009-05-21
An alleged organizer of the mutiny at a military base in Georgia has been killed and two others injured in a shoot-out with police, the countrys Interior Ministry says.
Georgia: celebrities join protests
2009-05-14
Georgian protests pressing for president Saakashvili's resignation have gone into their second month. As opposition leaders stand firm, artists and celebrities join in, feeling obliged to put out a political message.
Georgian presidents don't change?
2009-05-06
Ironically, though being a window of democracy, Georgia sees its leaders change in non-democratic ways, Sergey Strokan, political analyst from the Russian Kommersant newspaper, notes.
Stabilising Abkhazia and Ossetia will take decades
2009-05-03
Political analyst from Russia Profile magazine Roland Oliphant told RT that while the two states now have their independence, they're still very much dependent on Russia.
'NO to NATO drills in Georgia'
2009-04-27
Russias Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that Russia will not take part in NATO drills in Georgia, and doesnt advise other countries to do this either." Some of them have already stepped out of the May exercises.
Brichambaut: OSCE summit can be deranged because of Georgia
2010-09-09 14:53
Yet he expressed hope that OSCE members would agree on basic principles and plans in regard to Georgia, even though they formed different approaches to the issue.
Opinions
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Georgia has had an attack of “confederative” virus
Mikheil Saakashvili’s rosy ideas about setting up a confederacy between Georgia and Azerbaijan are gradually fading away, just like any delusive myth should. The process is streamlined by the recent talks of Dmitriy Medvedev and Ilham Aliyev, which success is highly estimated in Russia. Now even the politicians who are fully subject to the Georgian president started expressing skepticism as to the realness of a union between Tbilisi and Baku.2010-09-08 17:58
Analytics
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UN: ready for shame?
2010-09-08 18:58
Today, UN General Assembly is going to discuss the refugees’ problems in Georgia. Tbilisi reckons that the international organization will adopt a relevant resolution. According to Deputy Head of Foreign Ministry Nino Kalandadze, the document rather contains a humanitarian than a political message, while the basic purpose of the Georgian government in the Assembly is to defend the rights of refugees and forcibly displaced persons in the South Caucasus. However, in reality, things are a bit different. Georgia
Articles
OSCE came to Georgia to spend the autumn season
2010-09-09 10:31
OSCE Secretary General Marc Perrin de Brichambaut has arrived in Tbilisi. The principle point of his visit’s agenda is Georgia’s European integration. President Mikheil Saakashvili, Foreign Minister Grigol Vashadze and Speaker of Parliament David Bakradze are waiting impatiently for the diplomat so as to tell the world community in his person about their problems and hardships once again. Depressing governmental speeches might also be clouded by the non-governmental opposition, which representatives Mr. Brichambaut is also planning to meet with.
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