Sat, 28 Jun 2008 19:17:52 Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili has accused Russia of trying to annex Abkhazia amid a diplomatic row over the breakaway region.
Zeyno Baran Thomas de Waal In the Caucasus and the Balkans, two territories whose people broke free through war from a larger state their peoples saw as oppressive are now in constitutional limbo.
We are all familiar with a certain dishonest rhetorical tactic: the use of an argument that is objectively ridiculous and that the person making it knows is ridiculous, but that nevertheless can sound impressive to the ears of someone who does not pause to think twice about it.
Russian and Georgian senior officials have strongly denied a newspaper report on having talks on dividing Abkhazia into zones of influence. Abkhaz officials said alleged plan would be "totally unacceptable" and "absurd."
18:42 | 28/ 06/ 2008 Print version ASTANA, June 28 (RIA Novosti) - The Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe speaks for the preservation of Georgia's territorial integrity, organization's high ranking official said on Saturday.
June 20, 2008 Agence France Presse German Chancellor Angela Merkel will next week hold talks with Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, her office said Friday, amid soaring tensions between Russia and the former Soviet republic.
The Russian President has again warned that Moscow would not tolerate provocations against its peacekeepers in Abkhazia, but also said there was no reason to think that Moscow would carry out military intervention in the region.
TBILISI • Georgia held rare talks with representatives of its rebel Abkhazia region in Sweden this week, a senior Georgian official revealed yesterday, but no progress was made in solving the long-running conflict.
Raul Khajimba, the vice-president of breakaway Abkhazia, said he thought use of force might be needed one day to regain control over Tbilisi-controlled upper Kodori Gorge, the Abkhaz news agency, Apsnipress, reported.
Georgian and Abkhaz officials met secretly in Sweden on June 15-17, a senior Georgian governmental official told Civil.Ge on Friday. The source, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said although no "concrete result" has been produced, the talks were "useful."
PARIS, June 20 (UPI) -- It might be game, set and match for Barack Obama, but the United States is still not out of domestic political turmoil. In international affairs the United States is worryingly out of the political loop.
ROME, June 20 (RIA Novosti) - Georgian Vice-Premier Georgy Baramidze said in an interview with RIA Novosti on Friday that Russia's "bare-faced aggression" in Abkhazia was no reason for Tbilisi to start a war.
MOSCOW (AFP) — Russia threatened Thursday to use force if its peacekeepers in Abkhazia are again detained by Georgia, prompting a swift retort from Tbilisi that those troops must abide strictly by the law.Georgian police on Tuesday had detained four Russian peacekeepers near th …
Civil Georgia, Tbilisi / 18 Jun.'08 / 21:34 Russia has increased political and military pressure on Georgia, which is a source of concern for the United States, Daniel Fried, the U.S. assistant secretary, said on June 18.Speaking at a hearing of the U.S.
By MISHA DZHINDZHIKHASHVILI – 4 hours ago TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — Georgian authorities on Wednesday released four Russian peacekeepers who were detained on charges of carrying unauthorized weapons to a buffer zone near the breakaway region of Abkhazia.
MOSCOW (AFP) — Tensions between Georgia and Russia over Abkhazia flared anew Wednesday, prompting a warning from Russian President Dmitry Medvedev not to provoke his country's troops in the breakaway zone.
By Sergei Blagov Monday, June 16, 2008
MOSCOW, June 15 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's Defense Ministry on Sunday rejected the reports that it had allegedly opened a new military base in Georgia's breakaway province of Abkhazia.
TBILISI, Georgia: A battle between Georgian troops and forces from the breakaway province of South Ossetia left eight people wounded, officials said Sunday.
Civil Georgia, Tbilisi / 14 Jun.'08 / 11:23 Although some NATO defense minister raised Georgia, the Russian Defense Minister, Anatoly Serdyukov, did say nothing about the matter, Robert Gates, the U.S.
Several days ago news agencies buzzed with the information that the head of GazProm, Aleksei Miller, suggested the government of Azerbaijan should buy natural gas from that country at 'European prices.' This information seems to be true.
Casting his country's dispute with Russia in historic terms, Mikheil Saakashvili says Georgia's freedom—and Europe's principles—are at stake as tensions escalate over a breakaway region.
Civil Georgia, Tbilisi / 30 May.'08 / 17:53 The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Finnish Foreign Minister Alexander Stubb, said on May 30 it was time to look into possibilities for a new negotiating format for resolving the South Ossetian conflict.
Russian permanent representative to the UN Vitally Churkin (Churka) has slammed Georgia for ''useless rhetoric'' and urged Tbilisi to make specific steps for getting confidence.
Russia proposes Georgia to discuss the peace plan for settling Georgia-Abkhazia conflict prepared by the de facto Abkhazian leader Sergey Baghapsh.