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Saakashvili demands on georgian refugees to be back
By Times.am at 9 September, 2010, 12:44 pm
President Saakashvili said on September 8, that despite Russia’s opposition, Georgia widened support in UN as its sponsored resolution.
He said that Russia “waged diplomatic war” against the Georgian-sponsored resolution to such scales that “Putin made Medvedev to call twice to several countries’ leaders” to lobby against the resolution.
The UN resolution recognizing the rights of refugees [...]
Russian Foreign ministry warns against visiting Georgia
By Times.am at 2 September, 2010, 1:55 pm
The Russian Foreign Ministry warned its nationals on Wednesday against visiting Georgia because of the threat of prosecution to Russian tourists who visit Abkhazia and South Ossetia without Georgia’s permission, Foreign Ministry spokesman Andrei Nesterenko said.
The Georgian Interior Ministry proclaimed “visiting Abkhazia and South Ossetia without the knowledge of the Georgian authorities” as a criminal [...]
Georgia threatens to jail Russian visitors to Abkhazia, South Ossetia
By Times.am at 27 August, 2010, 10:17 pm
Russians who visit Abkhazia and South Ossetia without crossing the Georgian border may be fined or jailed, a Georgian Interior Ministry official said on Friday.
“Visiting Abkhazia and South Ossetia without the knowledge of the Georgian authorities is a criminal offense,” Shota Utiashvili, head of the Interior Ministry’s information and analytical department, said, Ria Novosti reported.
Russia [...]
Russia And Security In The South Caucasus
By Times.am at 27 August, 2010, 1:35 am
BY AMANDA Paul, Today’s Zaman
The recent military agreement signed between Turkey and Azerbaijan, which came a few days after Russia and Armenia signed an agreement to prolong the Russian military presence in Armenia until 2044, has led to some speculation that Turkey is pushing to secure greater clout in the region.
While Turkey has been [...]
U.S. has failed to spend over $25 million in aid congress intended for Karabakh
By Times.am at 24 August, 2010, 1:44 pm
Successive U.S. Administrations – both Democratic and Republican – have, since Fiscal Year 1998, expended $25 million less in aid to Nagorno Karabakh than Congress intended, according to an Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA) review showing that less than $36 million of the $61 million slated by Congress for this purpose has actually been [...]
Read More >>Russia’s S-300 System: Leveraging With Guns
By Times.am at 24 August, 2010, 6:12 am
By Michael Hikari Cecire, Eurasia Review
So what’s the deal with these S-300s? Anyone following recent news that is 1) military related and 2) has anything to do with Russia has probably heard of the S-300, the bogeyman of anti-aircraft systems and the bane of NATO (and Israeli) air forces. The S-300 is an advanced Russian [...]
Russian Checkmate in Abkhazia, S Ossetia
By Times.am at 24 August, 2010, 1:17 am
By Sergei Blagov in Moscow for ISN Security Watch
The Kremlin made a series of new gestures in support of Georgia’s breakaway republics of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on 8 August meeting with Abkhaz President Sergei Bagapsh and visiting the Russian military base at Gudauta.
During a 13 August meeting with South [...]
Georgian Deputy FM on Russia-Armenia Military Base Deal
By Times.am at 22 August, 2010, 7:51 pm
Commenting on Russian-Armenian military base deal, Georgian Deputy Foreign Minister, Nino Kalandadze said, that Tbilisi had no reason to suspect that Armenia would endanger regional security, Civil.ge reported.
Armenian and Russian Presidents signed in Yerevan on August 20 an agreement extending Moscow’s lease on Gyumri military base in Armenia to 2044.
“For us it is important, that [...]
President of Poland won’t fulfill Saakashvili’s wishes
By Times.am at 22 August, 2010, 7:02 am
Bronislaw Komorowski, the President of Poland, claimed that Tbilisi should no longer expect the benevolence of Warsaw it used to have under Kaczynski.
“I won’t go abroad only because the president of Georgia wants so,” he said in the interview to Rzeczpospolita [Polish newspaper].
He also made two mutually excluding statements on Abkhazia and South Ossetia issue. [...]
Belarus to chair post-Soviet military bloc from December – Medvedev
By Times.am at 20 August, 2010, 10:42 pm
Belarus will take over the chair of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) in December, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Friday.
“We have agreed that Belarus will take over the chair of the CSTO in December. The president of Belarus has expressed his readiness to take it on,” Medvedev said at an informal CSTO summit [...]
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