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Obama to Host Saakashvili at White House
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Georgia Remains 'Partly Free' in Freedom House Survey

Georgia’s indicators in an annual report by the U.S.-based rights group, Freedom House, remained unchanged and the country is still deemed "partly free".

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Apartment Complex for Russian Border Guards in Sokhumi

An apartment complex for the border guard forces of Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) and their families stationed in breakaway Abkhazia is being built in Sokhumi.

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Jioyeva Says Repeat Election 'Illegal'

Alla Jioyeva, an opposition leader in breakaway South Ossetia whose victory in last November’s presidential runoff was annulled, told supporters at a rally in Tskhinvali on Saturday, that repeat election set for March 25 "is illegitimate" and she would not run.

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Election Code Goes into Effect

The election code, passed on December 27 went into force after being published on the state online registry of legal acts on January 10. Below are some of the key points of the code under which the next parliamentary elections will be held this October.

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Sokhumi Slams Tbilisi's Neutral Travel Documents

Sokhumi said it was "deeply concerned" about reports that some states have recognized Tbilisi’s status neutral travel documents designed for residents of Georgia’s breakaway regions. The breakaway region’s foreign ministry said in a statement, that instead of its declared goal to promote

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Putin Says No Guarantee that U.S. Will Not Deploy Missile System in Georgia

There is no guarantee that the U.S. will not deploy its missile defense systems in Georgia and if it happens that will be "a horror", because in that case Russia will have to aim its "offensive systems" at Georgia, Russia’s PM Vladimir Putin, said.

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Obama to Host Saakashvili at White House

President Obama will host his Georgian counterpart Mikheil Saakashvili for a meeting in the Oval Office on January 30 to discuss issues ranging from defense cooperation to parliamentary elections scheduled in Georgia later this year.

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Georgian MFA: 'Russia is Source of Destabilization'

Russia represents "source of destabilization" and "negative developments," the Georgian Foreign Ministry said while condemning in a statement on January 16 reported plans by Russia to invite for participation in its annual military drills in North Caucasus units from breakaway Abkhazia and South O

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Russia and Georgia: The ways out of the crisis

Present collection of the articles represents a certain outcome of the two-year development of so-called Istanbul Process, an initiative that was started right after the August war of 2008 with support from the Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict (GPPAC) and aimed at creating a space for facilitated meetings of independent Russian and Georgian experts to discuss various aspects of the current Russia-Georgia crisis and the ways out of it. The meetings are held on neutral soil, in Istanbul, which is why the project is called the Istanbul Process. All the authors of the book belong to the participants of the project meetings.

Not all the aspects of Russian-Georgian problem can possibly be comprised within the frame of one book. It is rather a topic for a broad multi-profile research paper, or even a series of papers, not attempted as yet.

George Khutsishvili

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