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A crowd attacks a minibus carrying gay rights activists during an International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia rally in Tbilisi, Georgia.

Cochairmen of the Geneva consultations on security and stability in the South Caucasus are discussing in Tskhinvali the agenda of negotiations due in late June with South Ossetian presidential envoy Murat Jioyev and South Ossetian delegation members, an Interfax correspondent reported.

The Pace Group company together with the companies "APM Terminals - Poti" and "Agricom" will open a wheat processing terminal in the Poti port on Friday.

Georgia should show solidarity with Azerbaijan today more than ever, Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili said in an interview with Georgian television companies in Washington.

One quarter of homosexuals surveyed by the EU's Agency for Fundamental Rights have recently been attacked or threatened.

An attempt to hold a march against homophobia in the Georgian Tbilisi ended in rioting as hostile protesters attacked participants and police lines crumbled.

Policemen try to stop an Orthodox Christian activist during clashes at an International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia rally in Tbilisi, May 17, 2013.

Georgia has a desire to become a bridge between the East and West, Georgian Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili said at the opening of the international conference "Connections between Asia and Europe - the regional economic integration at the South Caucasus and Asia" in Tbilisi today.

Georgian church clergymen and activists unite to protest against a gay pride rally in Tbilisi, Georgia, Friday, May 17, 2013.

Thousands of anti-gay protesters, including Orthodox priests, occupied a central street in Georgia's capital Friday, with some threatening to lash with stinging nettles any participant in a gay pride parade which was to take place there.

A gay pride parade in Georgia's capital had to be abandoned before it could start after several thousand anti-gay activists occupied the street where it was to be held.

Moldova's LGBT community is launching a weeklong festival celebrating sexual minorities in the conservative country.

UNICEF Georgia will soon publish a report that takes stock of the general public's knowledge, attitude, behaviors and practices around the issue of violence against children.

Russia's termination of the contract on oil transportation via the Baku-Novorossiysk pipeline, concluded with Azerbaijan in 1996, will require a new agreement in case of necessity.

According to a report released by the government, the list of those projects which according to the new government were not aimed at improving social conditions and the long term economic position, includes the construction of a parliament complex in Kutaisi which, according to the new government cost 344 million lari, as well as a new theatre in ... (more)

The former head of the Parliamentary Committee on Defense and Security from the Georgian opposition party "The United National Movement" Givi Targamadze will file a lawsuit against the government of the Russian Federation regarding claims of illegal persecution in the European Court of Human Rights.

"The government has appealed to President Saakashvili to declare May 16 a day of mourning in memory of Georgian servicemen," the government said.

It's been less than three years since the It Gets Better video campaign was launched in the United States to offer support to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender youth struggling with depression and thoughts of suicide.

The president of Georgia is visiting the United States. Mikheil Saakashvili has already conducted a meeting with one of the candidates in the presidential election of 2016 Senator Marco Rubio, reported the Administration of the president of Georgia.

A representation of the European Chamber of Commerce opened in Tbilisi on Tuesday.