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• NATO urges Georgia to improve relations with neighbours

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 724
  Brussels, Dec 4 (DPA) Georgia should improve its ties with its neighbours to boost its own security, while Russia should withdraw its support for the breakaway Georgian territories of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, NATO foreign ministers said.Georgia fought a brief but bitter war with its neighbour Russia in August 2008, ...
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• NATO, Russia resolve dispute, will hold talks

  
  AlertNet Newsdesk — Authority: 711
  Source: Reuters * Way cleared for signing of cooperation agreements * Medvedev says Russia willing to help in Afghanistan By David Brunnstrom BRUSSELS, Dec 3 (Reuters) - NATO and Russia have resolved a ...
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• Rebel Ossetia jails 2 Georgian teenagers; 2 freed

  
  AlertNet Newsdesk — Authority: 711
  Source: Reuters * Ruling follows release in Georgia of five Ossetians * Mediation led by Council of Europe envoy * Detentions straining tempers more than 1 year since war (Updates with court ruling) By ...
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• Georgia releases Ossetians in likely prisoner swap

  
  AlertNet Newsdesk — Authority: 711
  Source: Reuters * Release follows mediation by Council of Europe envoy * Georgia wants return of teenagers held in rebel region By Kazbek Basayev TSKHINVALI, Georgia, Dec ...
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• A Brief History of (Abkhazian) Time

  
  Blogactiv - EU Blog Platform — Authority: 152
  The following has been submitted to Blogactiv by Bruce Talley. 2008 Events The August 2008 conflict in South Ossetia was the first time that many in the West were aware of either South Ossetia or Abkhazia. Both regions fought bloody wars of independence with Georgia in the aftermath of the breakup of the Soviet ...
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• EU, Russia dicuss energy, trade and climate

  
  AlertNet Newsdesk — Authority: 711
  Source: Reuters * EU presidency, Russia discuss climate change, energy * Russia says aims to join WTO as single entity * EU-Russia ties still fragile after Russia-Georgia war ...
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• Breakaway Abkhazia deserts Georgia phone code

  
  GenevaLunch — Authority: 554
  The breakaway Georgian region of Abkhazia began to use Russia’s international direct dialling phone code, +7, Sunday 15 November, instead of Georgia’s, +995, in a further break with Georgia. Russia and Georgia fought a war in July over South Ossetia, another breakaway region in Georgia. ”The old codes will work ...
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• PREVIEW-EU, Russia hope for new start despite differences

  
  AlertNet Newsdesk — Authority: 711
  Source: Reuters * EU, Russia to discuss energy, trade, rights, climate * EU hopes to build trust, avert energy supply disruptions * Ties improving slowly after Georgia-Russia war By Timothy Heritage ...
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• EU: EU-Russia ties to be strengthened - with conditions

  
  i On Global Trends - Mike Hitchen Online - news, opinion, analysis — Authority: 444
  Climate change, energy security and a new general cooperation agreement between the two blocs are among the topics that the Swedish Presidency should discuss with Russia at the upcoming Stockholm summit on 18 November. MEPs are concerned about the human rights situation in Russia (the EP recently awarded its Sakharov ...
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• Georgia to launch First Caucasian Channel

  
  FINROSFORUM — Authority: 110
  The Georgian government will establish a new Russian-language TV channel, Pervyi Kavkazskiy Kanal (First Caucasian Channel), which will begin broadcasting throughout the Caucasus region on 1 January 2010. The channel will operate under the auspices of the state-owned Georgian Public Broadcasting. Critics say the ...
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• Calling Sukhumi by way of Moscow?

  
  Eternal Remont: — Authority: 475
  Remember the controversy over Abkhazia’s Facebook designation? Well a new furor is stirring over telephone area codes. As of November 16, Abkhazia will adopt Russian area codes for telephone service. This means than everyone trying to reach Uncle Bagrat in Gagra will have to call Russia and not Georgia. Clearly, ...
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• Russian streets in Tbilisi

  
  FINROSFORUM — Authority: 110
  Two streets in the Georgian capital, Tbilisi, have been renamed in honour of two prominent human rights activists from Russia: investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya and film director and actress Olga Konskaya.The former Vladimir Djikia Street in the Tbilisi’s Vake-Saburtalo district is now Anna Politkovskaya ...
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• ABC Of West’s Global Military Network: Afghanistan, Baltics, Caucasus By Rick Rozoff

  
  Creative-i — Authority: 148
  The centurys longest war continues to rage in South Asia with no sign of abating. Instead, the invasion of Afghanistan on October 7, 2001 has exploded into endless armed hostilities that have spread across the length and breadth of the nation, with U.S. and NATO military forces fighting an intensified ...
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• The EU and the Georgian war: Saying ‘everyone is to blame’ isn’t good enough

  
  Greater Surbiton — Authority: 100
  The EU fact-finding mission, headed by Switzerland’s Heidi Tagliavini, into the causes of last summer’s war in Georgia has released its Report . The Daily Telegraph has   misrepresented  the latter’s conclusions as amounting to an attribution of primary blame to the Georgian side in the conflict, with ...
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