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12.10.2010, 14:52
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Russian officials have taken a cautious stance after Georgia’s foreign ministry said it would grant visa-free travel permits to residents of Russia’s North Caucasus republics.
21.07.2010, 19:17
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The Georgian parliament on Wednesday voted in favor of the government’s initiative to mark August 23 as a memorial day called “Day of Soviet Occupation.”
24.12.2009, 16:26
The checkpoint on the border between Russia and Georgia will open next spring. The parties came to an agreement following months of negotiations.
25.12.2009, 20:03
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The results of the EU investigation into the war in 2008 were not favorable for Georgia, and the demolition of the Kutaisi monument is a kind of psychological vengeance for them, believes observer Ekaterina Kuznetsova.
24.07.2009, 00:18
Belarusian authorities have advised their citizens to remember Georgia’s laws while visiting Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Does it mean Minsk will not recognize the independence of the two republics?
29.12.2009, 00:31
Georgia says it will not be ready to resume flights between Moscow and Tbilisi for the festive season.
01.03.2010, 13:02
Russia and Georgia have re-established a border crossing for the first time since breaking off diplomatic relations after the August 2008 conflict in the Caucasus.
22.12.2009, 21:21
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The memorial to WWII veterans that was demolished in the Georgian city of Kutaisi earlier this month will be rebuilt in Moscow, Russia’s Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has declared.
11.08.2010, 17:03
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The Russian military has deployed an S-300 long-range air defense system on the territory of Abkhazia. Georgia sees the move as a threat to its security.
21.10.2009, 02:53
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A war of titans seems to be starting, but luckily not a bloody one this time. Die Hard 2 director Renny Harlin to make film about 2008 Georgian war, but another star, Emir Kusturica, seems ready to fire back with a hit.
Published: 11 May, 2010, 16:05
Edited: 17 May, 2010, 18:52
Secretary General of the Council of Europe Thorbjorn Jagland’s visit to Moscow to attend the 65th anniversary celebrations of the victory in WWII came as Russia steps up its cooperation with the organization.
It is grossly misleading to claim that “Present-day Europe owes its existence to the feat of the Soviet Union’s peoples. They made the decisive contribution to the liberation of Europe and overthrowing the Nazi regime.” Present-day Europe owes its existence to that, and to the eventual collapse of the Soviet totalitarian tyranny that replaced Nazi totalitarian tyranny. Omitting either part of the formula would be misleading to the point of being dishonest. Liberty arose nowhere at all where the Red Army established its control. Only Stalinist terror, with all the suffering and injustice that this entailed. Because the Red Army had weakened Nazi Germany, Western Allies were able to bring genuine liberty to Western Europe. But that was not present-day Europe – it was the Europe of the Cold War, divided by an iron curtain on one side of which was freedom, and on the other side Soviet oppression and occupation. Only after 1991, with the collapse of the Soviet Union, did present-day Europe emerge. Stalin was not a freedom fighter. At no point did he exert himself, nor forces under his control, to bring liberty to anyone. His sole aim was to defeat a foreign oppressor so as to have his own brand of oppression triumph. And everywhere his forces conquered, that and nothing more than that is what he achieved.