Helsinki Times , Finland Nov 27 2008 Finland to chair vital security talks Thursday, 27 November 2008 11:22 The OSCE (Organisation for Security & Cooperation in Europe) will hold its Ministerial Meeting in Helsinki on 4 and 5...
By Helena Bedwell Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili defended his handling of the Black Sea country’s five-day war with Russia in August in testimony before a parliamentary commission. Saakashvili said his “difficult”...
Al Jazeera has received a distinguished award from the Foreign Press Association (FPA) in London. Jonah Hull, from Al Jazeera English, received the Story of the Year award for 'The War in Georgia' in which he documented the...
By Ruth Eglash For hundreds of Georgian Jews the memory of last summer's war with Russia is still as fresh as ever. "We are still suffering psychologically from the effects of war," said Katinou Orjonikidze, whose apartment...
By Varvara Parkhomenko In the buffer zone between South Ossetia and Georgia, the August war had continued by other means, reports this representative of the Russian human rights organization the Demos Centre. When the Russian...
By David Cronin BRUSSELS, Nov 21 (IPS) - Stan Brabant, a spokesman for Handicap International, which launched the report in Brussels Nov. 21, described this finding as "very scary". And while Russia has used landmines in the...
U.S. Mission to the United Nations in Geneva Daniel Fried, Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Press Conference United Nations Office – Palais des Nations Geneva, Switzerland Assistant Secretary...
Joao Silva for The New York Times Fires burned Aug. 12 in a Gori apartment where an attack had killed civilians. MOSCOW — Russian, Georgian and South Ossetian forces failed to protect civilians, and in some cases singled them...
CBNNews.com - Georgia's attack on South Ossetia this summer sparked a massive retaliation by Russia. Many Georgians are now coming back to their villages near the South Ossetian border and it will take quite a few years to...