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27.05.2010, 14:14
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On Wednesday, Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili unveiled the country’s tallest monument. The “Tower of Heroes” is in honor of the soldiers who died for independence – but only to the ones who fought against Russia.
14.05.2010, 07:20
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After NATO was formed in 1949, the Soviet Union built up its own military alliance, the Warsaw Pact. The Soviet Union and seven European socialist states joined the treaty on May 14, 1955.
01.09.2009, 16:51
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“Historians know what preceded the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. The Polish have to admit that their dramatic plight was determined by erroneous policy of a Polish government,” – Natalya Narochnitskaya, a political scientist.
25.06.2010, 13:37
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Residents of Gori, the Georgian city where Joseph Stalin was born, awoke on Friday morning to discover the centrepiece of their main square, a six-metre bronze statue of the infamous soviet leader, had vanished.
01.09.2009, 14:18
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French historian Edouard Husson thinks that the vehement attempts to rewrite history are linked to the longing for the independence of every European country, which leads to the adaptation of history to a national ideal.
06.05.2009, 13:00
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Despite accusations by Georgian officials that Russian secret services were involved in Tuesday's mutiny and alleged coup attempt, there is no firm evidence of it, according to a report in The Times.
20.05.2010, 20:01
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Victims of Georgia's attack on South Ossetia in August 2008 may now have an EU-approved document on their hands if they want their cases to be heard at the international criminal court in The Hague.
10.08.2009, 09:27
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Many homes in South Ossetia still bear the scars of last year's war. For the elderly the past 12 months have been a challenge, coping with family losses while living in the rubble of Tskhinval.
12.12.2009, 08:43
Sixteen years ago Russia adopted its first post-Soviet Constitution, which marked the beginning of a new era in the history of the state: a departure from the Communist dictatorship to democracy.
07.08.2009, 21:58
Amid continued high tensions between Russia and Georgia, fears remain that a new conflict could erupt at any time, but George Mason University political science professor Mark Katz doesn’t expect new hostilities.
Published: 25 February, 2009, 19:38
On February 25, Georgia marks ‘Sovietization Day’. Introduced in the early 1990s, the holiday has recently acquired a slightly different sense.
whitewash the same way as baltics, as well as the entire hypocritical west=waste on the preparation and appeasing of Germans when they could sacrifice us. Džugašvili Saakašvili
Riiiiiight.... Georgia breaks free of the Mongols, Ottomans & Persians in 1762 after 5 centuries of domination, and accepts Russian protection soon after. Then 100+ years later, Georgia breaks away from Russia May 1918 following the chaos of the Russian Revolution, then immediately attacks Armenia to steal their territory. Feb 1921 the Bolshevik army show up to take Georgia back, and installs a Georgian Bolshevik to run the place (Filipp Makharadze) while another Georgian (Ioseb Jughashvili aka Joesef Stalin) becomes General Secretary of the CPSU. Georgian agitprop about "Sovietization" is a simplistic distortion of actual events...