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JOURNEY TO KARABAKH BY AKA MORCHILADZE Georgia Today, Georgia March 13 2014 Print version A young man travels from Georgia to Karabakh, a contested region between Armenia and Azerbaijan, in order to buy cheap drugs.

Former member of the UN Commission on Disarmament, uncle of former Georgian president Mikhail Saakashvili, Temur Alasania will file a lawsuit against the Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili in New York court.

GEORGIA TRIANGLE Balkans.com Business News March 13 2014 Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on email Share on print More Sharing Services bne - 13.03.2014 On February 19, 2014, the Third Session of the Trilateral Meeting of Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey was held in Ganja .

From his perch in a 108,000 square-foot mansion carved into the bluffs overlooking Tbilisi, Georgia, Bidzina Ivanishvili lords over his homeland.

Potential car buyers browse the estimated 7,000 vehicles available at the Rustavi Auto Market in Georgia.

Everyone in the Caucasus has reasons to worry about which direction Crimea's vote goes this Sunday, but for their own reasons.

The Tbilisi city court found the wanted former head of the Georgian Interior Ministry's Constitutional Security Department, Davit Akhalaia guilty in using his official position for personal gain and sentenced him in absentia to three years and nine months in prison.

GROONG's Calendar of events ========================================= What: `An Armenian Eccentric: The Life and Times of Kara Darvish' Dr. James Russell Lecture When: Mar 20 2014 7:30pm Where: The University Business Center Alice Peters Auditorium, Room 191, Fresno State campus Misc: Kara Darvish was an Armenian Futurist poet who lived and worked ... (more)

When the Russian government ordered troops to effectively occupy the Crimean region of Ukraine in response to the overthrow of the pro-Moscow government in Kiev, it was all too familiar to Daniel Fata '94 .

This year marks the centennial of the outbreak of World War I. What started as a beef between the Austro-Hungarian Empire and Serbia unleashed a clash that brought in Russia, Italy, France, Germany, England and eventually the United States.

As one listener points out, we might not have carrot cake today if Germans weren't forced to bake with ersatz materials during World War I. This little girl might have had to settle for chocolate instead.

Georgian PM Irakli Gharibashvili summed up his recent visit to the U.S. at the meeting with students at Tbilisi State University today.

The Crimea crisis has inspired hopes for a speedier ride for Georgia to NATO membership , but the Alliance appears to be sticking to an adagio pace for now.

The conflict centered on South Ossetia and Abkhazia , two "breakaway provinces" in Georgia.

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.