- 18:12 27/04/2012 MOSCOW, April 27 (RIA Novosti)
Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili responded to remarks of his Russian counterpart by saying that he will step down if Russia returns control over former Georgian republics, Georgian media said.
- 18:22 12/04/2012 MOSCOW, April 12 (RIA Novosti)
The Russian Foreign Ministry on Thursday recommended its citizens to avoid visiting Georgia, saying that the country’s special services “oppress” Russians.
- 13:19 19/03/2012 TBILISI, March 19 (RIA Novosti)
Georgian border police coast guards detained a Russian-flagged dry cargo vessel near Sarpi (Adjara) on Monday, Novosti-Gruzia news agency reported quoting the police press service.
- 14:12 14/03/2012 MOSCOW, March 14 (RIA Novosti)
Russia has said it is ready to scrap visa requirements for Georgians if Tbilisi lifts a controversial law penalizing Russians visiting its breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
- 19:08 07/03/2012 MOSCOW, March 7 (RIA Novosti)
Russian Prime Minister and president-elect Vladimir Putin, who won Sunday’s vote by a landslide, on Wednesday blamed Georgia’s leadership for problems in bilateral relations.
- 17:35 03/03/2012 TBILISI, March 3 (RIA Novosti)
Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili said that Russian-Georgian diplomatic relations would be fully restored if Russia withdrew troops from Abkhazia and South Ossetia and annulled its recognition of independence of the breakaway republics, Novosti-Georgia news agency reported on Saturday.
- 22:30 02/03/2012 MOSCOW, March 2 (RIA Novosti)
Georgia will not restore diplomatic relations with Russia as long as Moscow recognizes the independence of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, Deputy Georgian Foreign Minister Sergei Kapanadze said on Ekho Moskvy radio on Friday.
- 21:00 02/03/2012 MOSCOW, March 2 (RIA Novosti)
Russia is ready to scrap visa requirements with Georgia and is ready to restore diplomatic relations with Tbilisi, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich said on Friday.
- 13:16 02/03/2012 Innokenty Adyasov for RIA Novosti
Several statements by top Russian and Georgian officials suggest that a mild thaw in bilateral relations may be in the offing.
- 11:33 29/02/2012 MOSCOW, February 29 (RIA Novosti)
Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili has said he wants to scrap visa requirements for Russians, Rossiya 24 state television reported on Wednesday.
- 17:14 02/02/2012 Weekly column by Fyodor Lukyanov
Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili finally got what he couldn’t get for several years: an official visit to the White House.
- 20:39 22/11/2011 TBILISI, November 22 (RIA Novosti)
Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili on Tuesday said he was ready to donate to Russian politicians any part of his body to restore Georgian integrity.
- 16:13 21/11/2011 VLADIKAVKAZ, November 21 (RIA Novosti)
By going to war with Georgia in 2008, Russia halted NATO's expansion eastward, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Monday.
- 15:03 18/11/2011 TBILISI, November 18 (RIA Novosti)
Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili described a European parliament resolution on Georgia that dubs Russia an illegal military occupant as “historical.”
- 20:07 01/11/2011 TBILISI, November 1 (RIA Novosti)
Georgia’s acceptance of Russia’s accession to the World Trade Organization was forced on Tbilisi and is solely beneficial for Moscow, Georgian-born billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili said on Tuesday.
- 20:58 27/09/2011 UNITED NATIONS, September 27 (RIA Novosti)
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov reiterated on Tuesday Russia's readiness to act as a guarantor of non-use of force agreements between Georgia and its breakaway republics of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
- 05:52 22/09/2011 MOSCOW, September 22 (RIA Novosti)
The European Court for Human Rights (ECHR) will decide on Thursday whether it should consider Georgian lawsuit concerning the 2008 war with Russia.
- 13:39 23/08/2011 MOSCOW, August 23 (RIA Novosti)
Russia warned Georgia on Tuesday against an invasion of South Ossetia under the guise of a so-called Peace March, marking the third anniversary of South Ossetia and Abkhazia's independence, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Tuesday.
- 14:59 08/08/2011 MOSCOW, August 8 (RIA Novosti)
Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili is an ill-bred pathology and anomaly of the Georgian people, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday.
- 11:08 08/08/2011 MOSCOW, August 8 (RIA Novosti)
Georgia has refused to cooperate with Russia on the investigation into the Russian-Georgian war in August 2008, Russian Investigative Committee Vladimir Markin said on Monday.
- 19:42 13/05/2011
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev described on Friday the deployment of Russian troops in the breakaway Georgian republic of South Ossetia in 2008 as one of the hardest decisions of his presidential career.
- 13:27 15/04/2011
The spring session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe will not go down well in the history of Russia-PACE relations as it was less constructive than Russia would have liked it to be, Russia's chief delegate said on Friday.
- 16:47 21/12/2010 RIA Novosti political correspondent Dmitry Kosyrev
Dick Marty, who chairs the Monitoring Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), is traveling to Moscow and Tbilisi on December 20 and 21.
- 16:25 21/12/2010
Georgia on Tuesday reiterated its commitment to peace and its readiness for genuine dialogue with Russia.
- 05:54 30/11/2010
The Russian Reporter weekly, a WikiLeaks partner, published the U.S. correspondence on the 2008 war between Russia and Georgia over South Ossetia.
- 23:23 18/10/2010
Tbilisi has called Moscow's removal of troops from a village bordering South Ossetia "a step in the right direction," the Georgian Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Monday.
- 14:42 14/10/2010
Russia has described as a provocation a decision by the Georgian authorities to scrap visas for residents of Russia's North Caucasus republics.
- 12:24 12/10/2010
Georgia's decision to scrap visas for residents of Russia's North Caucasus republics is yet another "propaganda move" by Tbilisi, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Tuesday.
- 15:08 13/09/2010
The International Court of Justice in The Hague begins hearings on Monday into Georgian claims of Russian human rights violations.
- 05:42 13/09/2010
The International Court of Justice (ICJ), the main judicial body of the United Nations, will hold public hearings in Georgia's lawsuit against Russia.
- 15:33 09/08/2010
Tbilisi expressed an official protest over the Russian president's recent visit to the former Georgian republic of Abkhazia, the Georgian Foreign Ministry said.
- 21:42 26/07/2010
EU foreign ministers extended on Monday the EU monitoring mission (EUMM) in Georgia by one year.
- 21:01 26/07/2010
The majority of Georgians disapprove of Georgia's policy towards Russia, according to an opinion poll led by the U.S. National Democratic Institute (NDI).
- 15:43 27/05/2010
Russia is ready to cooperate with Georgian business on wine and water supplies after a two-year import ban, Russia's chief sanitary official said on Thursday.
- 21:23 12/03/2010
Two PACE co-rapporteurs for Russian-Georgian relations will visit the region in mid-April, a senior Russian lawmaker told RIA Novosti on Friday
- 20:54 04/03/2010
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that the reopening of the only land border crossing between Russia and Georgia was a sign of improving ties between the two countries.
- 11:54 05/02/2010
Georgia is in talks with U.S. companies on airing its Russian-language television channel in the Caucasus region after accusing its French broadcast partner of bowing to pressure from Russia, a Russian paper said on Friday.
- 15:03 10/12/2009
Georgia is ready to restore air links with Russia, a spokeswoman for the Georgian president said on Thursday
- 14:31 09/12/2009
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Wednesday he hoped a time would come when Russia and Georgia would end mutual visa requirements.
- 14:26 04/11/2009
Georgian Foreign Minister Grigol Vashadze said on Wednesday he had decided to renounce his Russian citizenship.
- 07:58 22/09/2009
The U.S. will continue its efforts to prevent international recognition of the former Georgian republics of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, a senior U.S. official has said
- 10:19 18/06/2008
Georgian police released on Wednesday four Russian peacekeepers detained on Tuesday night allegedly smuggling arms out of breakaway Abkhazia, police said on Wednesday.
- 09:30 10/06/2008
Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili said Georgia will never allow the annexation of its territories and will insist on the withdrawal of Russia's railroad troops from the breakaway region of Abkhazia.
- 12:15 02/06/2008
Georgia's Foreign Ministry summoned Russia's envoy Monday to hand over a protest note after Moscow deployed unarmed railroad troops to the breakaway region of Abkhazia.
- 22:01 21/05/2008
Georgia's Foreign Ministry has sent a protest note to the CIS secretariat demanding so called illegal Russian troops and armaments be withdrawn from the Georgian-Abkhaz conflict zone.
- 21:34 15/05/2008
Georgia's foreign minister said on Thursday that the country would regard any increase in Russian peacekeepers in the breakaway republic of South Ossetia as encroachment on national sovereignty.
- 13:45 09/05/2008
Russian peacekeepers deployed to the Georgian-Abkhaz conflict zone to strengthen the Collective CIS Peace Keeping Force have started performing their duties, a Russian Defense Ministry spokesman said on Friday.
- 21:54 06/05/2008
Georgia is close to an outbreak of hostilities with Russia, but Tbilisi has only itself to blame for the current state of affairs, the Russian envoy to NATO said on Tuesday.
- 20:33 05/05/2008
Georgia has formally notified Russia that it is withdrawing from a bilateral air defense cooperation treaty, a Georgian Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Monday.
- 19:15 05/05/2008
Air defense forces of Georgia's breakaway republic of Abkhazia detected another Georgian surveillance drone, but decided not to take any action, the Abkhaz defense minister said Monday.
- 14:21 04/05/2008
Georgia has deployed almost 7,500 troops on its border with Abkhazia, the defense minister of the breakaway republic said on Sunday.
- 12:20 04/05/2008
"The Georgian leadership advises the anonymous representatives of the Russian security agencies...to take a few drops of valerian [a traditional herbal sedative]. However, Georgian doctors believe that valerian will not be potent enough...and they would be better off taking Valium," Georgia's acting foreign minister, Grigol Vashadze, was quoted as saying by a ministry spokesman.
- 21:50 28/04/2008
The Georgian breakaway republic of Abkhazia is prepared to sign a military agreement with Russia, the Abkhaz foreign minister said Monday.
- 14:20 24/04/2008
Georgia failed to convince the UN Security Council in a closed-door session over Russia's alleged aggression towards Tbilisi following a row over the downing of a surveillance drone by a Russian fighter.
- 11:15 24/04/2008
Georgia failed to convince the UN Security Council in a closed-door session over Russia's alleged aggression towards Tbilisi, following a row over the downing of a surveillance drone by a Russian fighter.
- 18:21 23/04/2008
The UN Security Council will hold a closed meeting Wednesday at 20:00 GMT on the situation in the Georgian-Abkhaz conflict zone, Vitaly Churkin, Russia's ambassador to the UN said.
- 19:16 22/04/2008
Russia's Foreign Ministry accused Georgia on Tuesday of breaching a UN resolution and Moscow ceasefire after a Georgian unmanned reconnaissance aircraft was downed over the breakaway republic of Abkhazia.
- 16:01 22/04/2008
The president of Georgia's breakaway region of Abkhazia accused Tbilisi during an annual parliamentary address Tuesday of trying to avoid resuming peace talks.
- 09:37 22/04/2008
The United Nations Security Council has scheduled a meeting for Wednesday on Georgia's request, to discuss accusations of Russian aggression in Abkhazia, a breakaway Georgian region.
- 22:07 21/04/2008
- 22:07 21/04/2008
Georgia's president has accused Russia of aggression saying Tbilisi has video footage proving that Russia downed a Georgian drone.
- 14:05 20/04/2008
The air defense forces of Georgia's breakaway province of Abkhazia have shot down a Georgian pilotless reconnaissance aircraft, Abkhaz President Sergei Bagapsh said over the phone on Sunday.
- 19:24 19/04/2008
The Georgian parliament speaker has again called on Russia to review its decision to establish legal relations with the unrecognized republics of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
- 21:23 17/04/2008
Georgia is urging the UN Security Council and the OSCE to call emergency meetings after Russia's announced measures in support of its breakaway republics, the foreign minister said on Thursday.
- 17:38 17/04/2008
Georgia's president demanded Thursday that Russia revise its measures to support the unrecognized republics of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, saying the measures violate Georgia's sovereignty.
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