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Six years before the Sochi Winter Olympics, then-Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin made military invasion of a neighbor a Summer Olympics event while attending the non-military festivities in Beijing with U.S. President George W. Bush.

Russia cuts diplomatic ties with Ukraine - Russian ambassador to UN Vitaly Churkin announced at the UN today, channel has reported.

Tbilisi-80 ) was a musical event held in Tbilisi , capital of the Georgian SSR , Soviet Union , from March 8 to March 16, 1980.

Crimean MPs' controversial call for a referendum on joining Russia has reminded some observers of previous acts of aggression in Europe.

Most of the American bandwidth for developments in the former Soviet Union is being taken up these days by events in Ukraine.

Mikheil Saakashvili, the former President of Georgia, in Independence Square in Kiev, Ukraine, in support of antigovernment protesters on Dec. 7, 2013 Ex-Georgian president tells TIME the U.S. State Department knew since January that Ukrainian President Yanukovych was going to be ousted The last time Mikheil Saakashvili spoke to Vladimir Putin, the ... (more)

Efficiency of Ukraine's CIS chairmanship depends on whether Russia will recognize the new leadership of Ukraine legitimate or not, says George Tarkhan- Mouravi, Director of Institute for Policy Studies in Tbilisi, told ArmInfo.

Due to increasing demand from Georgian and Azerbaijan customers on prime quality, hi protein content soybean meal, American Trading Company has arrange delivery of Argentinean Soybean Meal with coaster vessel via Batumi port in Georgia.

Director of the IMF's Middle East and Central Asia Department Masood Ahmed will arrive in Georgia on March 7. He will meet with the Prime Minister and members of the Georgian government, Georgian Finance Minister Nodar Khaduri told media on March 6. "An IMF mission works in Tbilisi," he added.

Mikheil Saakashvili was president of Georgia from 2004 to 2013. He is a senior statesman at Tufts University's Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.

Georgian Interior Ministry has confirmed the violation of its airspace by a Russian military helicopter in the Georgian-Ossetian conflict zone.

Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili and NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen meet in Brussels in early February 2014.

Tbilisi, Georgia, March 6 By Nana Kirtzkhalia - Trend: Some 80 units of temporary housing will be built for foreign political asylum seekers in Georgia through U.S. government funding.

STYOPA SAFARYAN 19:09 * 04.03.14 In an interview with Tert.am, Political Secretary of the Heritage party Styopa Safaryan spoke of Armenian ex-president Levon Ter-Petrosyan's expectations about Prosperous Armenia Party Chairman Gagik Tsarukyan's political ambitions.

Emzar Kvitsiani, who in the early 2000s served as Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze's governor in the Kodori gorge, has returned to Tbilisi, almost eight years after the armed insurrection that culminated in his flight to Russia.

Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister Ebrahim Rahimpour met with Georgia's Interior Minister Alexander Chikaidze and Deputy Foreign Minister David Dzhalaganiya, during his visit to Georgian capital of Tbilisi on March 5. Rahimpour and his Georgian counterpart David Dzhalaganiya discussed current issues of bilateral cooperation in various areas, including ... (more)

RECENT events in Ukraine might be a partial vindication of Mikheil Saakashvili's United National Movement .

Sen. John McCain has been one of President Obama's most vocal critics for his handling of the crisis in Ukraine, particularly after Russia's invasion of Crimea this past weekend.

Starwood Hotels & Resorts has signed an agreement with Cevahir Yapi Sanayi Turizm ve Ticaret A.S. to open a new Sheraton hotel in Istanbul in 2015.

Russia will fail to withstand NATO and the EU both militarily and financially for a long time, Georgian Defence Minister Irakli Alasania told Rustavi- 2 TV Company on March 5. "The economic and financial isolation, sanctions against wealthy Russians, all this will have a devastating effect on the economy of the country," he said.