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Caucasus mountain men look to EU membership 28 Jun 2007 18:43, EUobserver... Caucasus mountain men look to EU membership EUOBSERVER ... some 70,000 stateless highlanders living on the Russia-Georgia border could by 2012 be heading for ...
Ancient Christian Community in Decline in Azerbaijan 28 Jun 2007 18:42, IWPR... nations of the Caucasus, Azerbaijan, Armenia and Georgia; and they can trace their ancestry back ... newspaper. Both are members of IWPRs EU-funded Cross-Caucasus Journalism Network project. Sadiq Fataliev is a ...
Georgia Promotes its Man in South Ossetia 28 Jun 2007 18:42, IWPR... Georgia Promotes its Man in South Ossetia Alternative ... the diplomatic arena, said Gegeshidze. Magdalena Frichova, Caucasus project director with the International Crisis Group, ...
Russia-Georgia gas pipeline to be world's highest 28 Jun 2007 15:44, Big News Network... Vladikavkaz, June 28 (RIA Novosti) A natural gas pipeline being built in the Caucasus mountains linking Russia and Georgia will be the world's highest pipeline, the project chief said Thursday. The high-altitude pipeline ...
The Future Of Kosovo: Europe's Chance Or Europe's Shame? 28 Jun 2007 15:42, Balkanpeace.org/... Tbilisi's thumb. It does not matter that Georgia has embraced democratic reforms or that it ... and South Ossetia are located in the Caucasus, but this should not be important in ...
A natural gas pipeline being built in the Caucasus mountains linking Russia and Georgia will gain the honor of being the world's highest pipeline, the project chief said Thursday. 28 Jun 2007 12:26, RIA Novosti... VLADIKAVKAZ, June 28 (RIA Novosti) - A natural gas pipeline being built in the Caucasus mountains linking Russia and Georgia will gain the honor of being the world's highest pipeline, the project chief said ...
Over 40 units of mil hardware leave Georgia for Russia by train 28 Jun 2007 12:04, ITAR-TASS... Russian military base in Batumi has left Georgia for Russia on Thursday, a representative of ... the Group of Russian Forces in the Trans-Caucasus told ITAR-TASS. The train consisting of 34 ...
HSBC plans to open bank in Georgia - central bank 28 Jun 2007 08:45, Reuters... bank said on Thursday. National Bank of Georgia spokeswoman Any Eristavi said the new bank ... Cowell; Tbilisi newsroom, +995 32 983 961 niko.reuters@caucasus.net)) Keywords: GEORGIA HSBC/ (C) Reuters 2007. All ...
Dancing war away 28 Jun 2007 08:06, iAfrica... destroyed much of this province in the Caucasus mountains and has killed an estimated 100,000 ... from Grozny to her grandmother's house in Georgia in 1995 at the height of the ...
» Factfile on Chechnya 28 Jun 2007 08:06, iAfrica... facts on the republic. GEOGRAPHY: Chechnya is sandwiched between the northern slopes of the Caucasus mountain chain and the steppe and bordered by Georgia. It covers 15 000 square kilometres or 5800 square miles. POPULATION: 1.2 million people ...
Georgia: "Alternative" South Ossetia Leader Says Europe Key to Peace 28 Jun 2007 07:17, Eurasianet... Tbilisi's campaign to align conflict resolution in Georgia with European, rather than Russian, interests. Despite ... social, political and economic developments of the Caucasus and Central Asia. It is a program ...
The emerging alliance between Turkey, Azerbaijan and Georgiaby MARIA BEAT* 28 Jun 2007 02:22, Today's Zaman... region since 1917 -- that Azerbaijan and Georgia could ensure a safe operation of their ... strategic location on the way from the Caucasus to the West through Turkey is its ...
Russia formally handed over its military base at Akhalkalaki in southern Georgia to Tbilisi Wednesday, as part of an ongoing scaling-down of its military presence in the ex-Soviet state. 27 Jun 2007 19:34, RIA Novosti... its military base at Akhalkalaki in southern Georgia to Tbilisi Wednesday, as part of an ... Russia's continued military presence in the South Caucasus nation has been a major source of ...
Russia may accelerate pullout of bases from Georgia - Ivanov 27 Jun 2007 19:21, RIA Novosti... withdrawal of two Soviet-era military bases from Georgia could be accelerated in the wake of ... given the latest developments in the South Caucasus state: "I think you understand how our ...
Georgia to send more peacekeepers to Iraq in mid-July 27 Jun 2007 18:50, RIA Novosti... TBILISI, June 27 (RIA Novosti) - Georgia will send servicemen to a new military ... deputy defense minister said Wednesday. The South Caucasus nation's parliament approved on June 8 President ...
Russia hands over Akhalkalaki military base to Georgia -1 27 Jun 2007 18:06, RIA Novosti... its military base at Akhalkalaki in southern Georgia to Tbilisi Wednesday, as part of an ... Russia's continued military presence in the South Caucasus nation has been a major source of ...
Normal life, of sorts, returns to Chechen capital Grozny 27 Jun 2007 18:04, KeepMedia... destroyed much of this province in the Caucasus mountains and has killed an estimated 100,000 ... from Grozny to her grandmother's house in Georgia in 1995 at the height of the ...
Lithuania to keep sending troops... 27 Jun 2007 16:22, The Baltic Times... of others serve on international missions in Georgia, Macedonia and Croatia. In its letter to ... on joint international missions in the South Caucasus, if the United Nations or the Organization ...