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PUTIN POSTURING IN YEREVAN SPARKS GEORGIAN CONCERN Georgia Today, Georgia Dec 5 2013 Print version The visit of the Russian President to Armenia turned into a very important event.

The U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland believes that Georgia should continue to set contacts with Abkhazia and Tskhinvali.

Georgia's chain of public-service halls - a fast-food-style dispenser of everything from ID cards to property registrations - broke a mold in the post-Soviet world, where taking care of such tasks usually means taking a long journey though the labyrinths of government bureaucracy.

US Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs Victoria Nuland has arrived in Tbilisi.

The German sociologist Max Weber famously remarked almost a century ago, "The only man who has politics for a vocation is one who is certain that his spirit will not be broken if the world, when looked at from his point of view, proves too stupid or base to accept what he wishes to offer it, and who, when faced with all that obduracy, can still say ... (more)

Istanbul, Turkey, Dec.5 By Abbas Akhundov - Trend: The first pilot train, timed to the opening of the railway on the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars route, will be launched in late 2014, Azerbaijani Transport minister Ziya Mammadov said at the panel discussions during the third Caspian Forum in Istanbul on Dec.5. "Implementation of the project, which is a ... (more)

The powerful Georgian Orthodox Church again has revived a fierce debate over whether or not it should act, essentially, as Georgia's fourth branch of government.

In 2009, the Berlin-based architect began designing a bevy of projects in this Caucasus country.

At this week's NATO foreign ministerial meetings in Brussels, the alliance's secretary general had effusive praise for aspiring member Georgia.

Experts are warning that rural Georgians' heavy reliance on burning wood for fuel is having a devastating effect on forests across the country.

The appeals court of the Georgian capital of Tbilisi has upheld the acquittal of the former Defense Minister, Bacho Akhalaia.

The protests sweeping Kiev are as much a reaction against the Kremlin as for the E.U.-and Brussels and Washington need to take note.

Plus, Romania's ethnic Hungarians march for greater autonomy and Bosnian Muslims stage a sleep-in protest over school curricula.

The Georgian patrol police urged citizens not to travel by cars in some mountain passes due to unfavorable weather conditions.

The U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry believes that Georgia's policy towards the U.S. is right, Georgian Foreign Minister Maia Panjikidze said after the meeting with the U.S. secretary of state in Brussels.

The restoration of the Georgian Armed Forces' Marneuli airbase is nearing completion.

She will then accompany the Secretary to Chisinau, Moldova where they will meet with senior Moldovan officials and discuss bilateral issues, as well as Moldova's path toward European integration.

JosA© Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission, welcomes then-Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili to the EC headquarters in Brussels in October, 2013.

Beka looks worried as he surveys the customers sipping coffee in the late-autumn sun at one of Tbilisi's upscale cafes.

Pleased as they were by Georgia's November 28 initialing of an historic deal on closer ties with the European Union, many Georgians cringed to see the well-meaning but uninformed Europeans choose the rollicking tune of a bottle-on-the-head Georgian folk dance, Shalakho, as the soundtrack for the otherwise lofty ceremony.