Georgia’s Foreign Ministry says it has reached a deal with Russia to open a border crossing that has been closed for three years.
It is the only highway crossing between Russia and Georgia that does not go through the Kremlin-backed rebel regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.
Deputy Foreign Minister Nino Kalandadze says the two sides agreed [...]
Russia has failed to fully observe an EU-brokered peace deal that ended last year’s war with Georgia, the EU monitoring mission chief says.
Russia also has refused to let EU monitors enter Georgia’s breakaway provinces of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, he said. Moscow has recognized the regions as independent states and kept thousands of troops there.
A senior Republican senator is urging the Obama administration and European allies to consider rearming Georgia, an action that would inevitably upset Russia.
During the brief August 2008 war, Russia destroyed much of Georgia’s military infrastructure and occupied two breakaway territories. Russia has since recognized both Abkhazia and South Ossetia as independent countries and established military [...]
U.S. President Barack Obama and Russian leader Dmitry Medvedev failed to clinch a landmark pact cutting Cold War stocks of nuclear arms on Friday but pledged to keep working for a deal in the New Year.
“There will be a little break — they (the Americans) will have Christmas holidays, then we will have ours,” the [...]
The United States and Russia are “quite close” to agreeing a new START nuclear arms reduction pact, U.S. President Barack Obama said on Friday.
“Weve been making excellent progress,” Obama said of the arms reduction talks. “We are quite close to an agreement.”
Obama met Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on the sidelines of U.
Russia said Wednesday that it could expand ties with the South Pacific island nation of Nauru after the world’s smallest republic recognized two breakaway provinces of Georgia that had declared independence with Russian backing.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Andrei Nesterenko said that Nauru’s recognition of independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia will boost their credentials and help [...]
Russian activist Sergei Kovalev urged the EU to put pressure on Moscow to respect human rights, as he received the prestigious Sakharov prize from the European parliament on Wednesday.
“To not call on Russia to do so would be interpreted as indulgence by the Russian authorities. That would be bad for Russia and for Europe as [...]
Yegor Gaidar, who oversaw Russia’s painful economic transition from communism to the free market in the 1990s, died Wednesday, an aide said. He was 53.
Gaidar - who served under Boris Yeltsin and as acting prime minister for six months in 1992 - was loathed by ordinary Russians who saw their savings wiped out by the [...]
Georgia’s breakaway province of Abkhazia on Tuesday won recognition by the South Pacific island nation of Nauru, one of the world’s smallest states.
Russia said it hadn’t tried to encourage other nations to recognize Abkhazia and South Ossetia, but the Kremlin rewarded Venezuela and Nicaragua with lucrative arms and energy deals.
The president of a separatist region of Georgia vowed on Sunday to maintain close ties with Russia after officials announced he has won a second term in office.
However, Georgia’s national security council head denounced the election in the Russia-backed region as illegitimate and amoral, and other candidates alleged vote fraud.
