News Source: Reuters
| about 1 month ago
You have to add to this the unpredictability of attempts by the Georgian leadership, headed by (President Mikheil) Saakashvili, which may give in to temptation to use force to tame these obstinate republics as they did last year," he said. "We do...
News Source: NewKerala
| about 1 month ago
Vashadze, who held joint Russian-Georgian citizenship, had been highly critical of Moscow's action. In the event the motion was not passed, it was seen as flouting the Russian constitution. Vashadze, a former Soviet diplomat, told reporters the...
News Source: B92
| about 1 month ago
Georgian Foreign Minister Grigol Vashadze said on Wednesday he had decided to renounce his Russian citizenship. A lawmaker for the Kremlin-backed A Just Russia party, Semyon Bagdasarov, had earlier proposed to strip the Georgian diplomat of his...
News Source: Seattle Times
| about 1 month ago
Georgia — Georgia's foreign minister has renounced his Russian citizenship. Grigol Vashadze is an ethnic Georgian and veteran diplomat, whose close ties to Moscow were formed in the Soviet era. He graduated from a prestigious Moscow university and...