112 results for Georgia

17 October 2008

Following this summer’s Georgian war, breakaway territory Abkhazia has been recognised as independent by Russia and Nicaragua. Limited diplomatic credibility hasn’t stopped it wanting the trappings of statehood: it hopes…

17 January 2009

After last summer’s disastrous war against Russia, Georgia’s opposition leaders felt that patriotism should come before any attack on their president, Mikheil Saakashvili. But now the time for retribution is getting nearer…

20 October 2011

Georgia’s second city is in the midst of a frantic transformation from sleepy resort to major tourist and investment hub. Intent on branding itself as a European-style cultural hotspot, it also aims to become a Caucasian…

17 October 2008

Tapping into renewable energy in the Rift Valley, military news, and trouble for the US Navy's submarines.

17 February 2011

Style leader Sandra Roelofs, brain drain in the Czech Republic and election watch Estonia.

17 September 2008

During the conflict in South Ossetia, western media were given free access by the Georgian government, while on the Russian side, foreign journalists were being either arrested or herded around by the military. In both…

17 May 2007

Moscow says goodbye to brutalism and the twentysomethings running Georgia.

17 November 2008

For every politician who thinks before speaking, there are more who charge ahead regardless. And for every firm that embarks on intelligent design or innovative commerce, there are numerous others littering landscapes with…

17 August 2007

No one – not even its only ally, Russia – recognises Abkhazia as a legitimate state. But 13 years after declaring independence from former Soviet Georgia, the region’s de facto government is determined to put it on the map…

17 April 2014

Kosovo wants its own army, India wants to build its own weapons and the countries considering joining Nato.

17 March 2011

Alcohol tax in Turkey, election with Finland and Georgia's diplomacy love-in.

19 September 2013

The fight for Hungary's skies, a high-rise revolution in Austria and election watch in Georgia, plus Sweden's integration minister talks about life after the Stockholm riots.