If we are in charge of protecting the border, we make detentions and take appropriate measures,” Viktor Trufanov from the Russian Federal Security Service told journalists on Tuesday. “We will do everything we can to ensure the security of the Russian state and the security of the Abkhaz state....
This is hardly surprising as it was clear from the beginning that the Georgian president made the first moves but obviously failed to gauge the magnitude of Russian reaction. It would seem that the neither enclave will now be part of Georgia in the forseeable future in spite of the lack of recognition of their independence ...
The war in Georgia last year was started by a Georgian attack that was not justified by international law, an EU-sponsored report has concluded.
However, the attack followed months of provocation, and both sides violated international law, the report said.
Russia said the report delivered an "unequivocal answer" on the question of who started ...
The international community should press Georgia and Russia to bring to justice those who violated the laws of war, causing many civilian deaths and injuries and widespread destruction of civilian property in last summer's short but deadly conflict, Human Rights Watch said today. As an EU-funded independent, international fact-finding ...
Georgia is training and lending safe passage to al-Qaeda agents planning terrorist acts in the Russian Caucasus, the head of Russia's FSB secret service charged Tuesday.
Georgia immediately denied the claim as ‘preposterous’ and accused Moscow of stoking tensions.
‘Audio evidence seized from insurgents shows that, together ...
Russia signed Tuesday agreements on military cooperation with the former Georgian republics of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, a Russian defence ministry spokesman said. Russia recognised the two republics shortly after the end of last August's war with...
If we are in charge of protecting the border, we make detentions and take appropriate measures,” Viktor Trufanov from the Russian Federal Security Service told journalists on Tuesday. “We will do everything we can to ensure the security of the...
News Source: Lexington Herald-Leader
| 2 months ago
Russian news agencies say the country's coast guard is warning that it will detain Georgian ships entering the territorial waters of Abkhazia. The warning adds to already strong tensions between Georgia and Russia over the status of Abkhazia and...
Tbilisi boycott Russia�s 2014 Winter Olympics Georgia said it wants to force a boycott of the 2014 Winter Olympics in the Russian resort of Sochi near the breakaway republic of Abkhazia...It�s simply contradictory for a country which in the 21st...
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