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Georgian Finance Minister Nodar Khaduri and German Ambassador to Georgia Ortwin Hennig signed two agreements on financial cooperation and a protocol on amending the agreement on avoidance of double taxation.

If Mr. Saakashvili is right that Mr. Putin's goal is to Balkanize Ukraine and carve out pieces for a Russian empire, Mr. Putin need not worry that all options for a response remain on the Western table.

YEREVAN AND TBILISI: ABOVE ALLIANCES Vestnik Kavkaza, Russia March 11 2014 11 March 2014 - 10:33am David Stepanyan, Yerevan.

Despite calls in Kiev to develop a nuclear deterrent against Vladimir Putin's Russia, experts say the idea is far-fetched.

Ponta will arrive in Tbilisi at the invitation from Georgian Prime Minister, Irakli Garibashvili, Georgian government's press service told Trend on March 12. During the visit, Victor Ponta and Irakli Garibashvili will first have a one-on-one meeting and then there will be an expanded meeting with the participation of the two countries' government ... (more)

Georgia supports projects aimed at strengthening economic cooperation between Central Asia and Europe via South Caucasus, newly appointed Georgian Ambassador to Tajikistan Konstantin Zhgenti said in Dushanbe.

Georgian ex-President, Mikheil Saakashvili's party, the United National Movement, will nominate Nika Melia's candidacy for Tbilisi mayor.

It is still not clear how a man from Radlett died in Georgia almost four years ago, an inquest revealed.

The continuation of selective justice by the current government as a means for political revenge, will surely endanger the signing of the Georgia-EU Association Agreement, according to the statement made by President of the European People's Party, Joseph Daul.

As if adding insult to injury, ousted Ukrainian Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich yesterday railed at the interim government in Kiev from the comfortable confines of his hideout in Russia.

German and Georgian scientists have been excavating and studying the Sakrisi-Kachagiani ancient gold mining site in southern Georgia since 2004.

Dozens of protesting employees from Georgia's Emergency Situations Service gathered in front of Tbilisi City Hall on March 11. The protesters, who have been on shifting hunger strikes for weeks, are demanding the resignation of chief of the service, Temur Giorgadze, and the reinstatement of previously dismissed colleagues.

A meeting between the Georgian Prime Minister's Special Representative for Russian-Georgian relations Zurab Abashidze and Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin was postponed for an indefinite period, Georgia's Prime Minister told Trend on March 11. This became known after a telephone conversation between Abashidze and Karasin.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will visit Georgia within few weeks, Georgia`s State Minister for European Integration Alexander Petriashvili said.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un was elected to the rubber-stamp parliament with 100% votes on Monday.

On March 3-7, the average price on AZERI LT, exported from Azerbaijan via the Ceyhan, Batumi and Supsa ports to Italian Augusta port, was $112.49 per barrel or $0.41 less compared to the previous week.

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Vienna-Austria's capital, known for coffee, Mozart and Schnapps-ranks No. 1 among expatriates as a city to live and work in, according to the latest global survey released by international management consultancy Mercer.

Russian expert: Why does not Karabakh hold a referendum similar to that in Crimea? And why does not Armenia take Karabakh within itself? One can have different attitude towards the events in Ukraine, but one thing is clear: what is happening there, has already changed the reality.

Feasibility study for fourth phase of north -south transport corridor in Armenia will be ready in late April YEREVAN, March 7. / ARKA /.