Armenian youth ready to give rebuff to Azerbaijan (PanARMENIAN.Net)
Youth sections of several Armenian political parties Friday condemned Azeri leadership for the initiative to resume hostilities.
Georgia State Minister on Bagapsh Re-Election (Civil Georgia)
Georgian State Minister, Temur Iakobashvili, said Sergey Bagapsh, who was re-elected as de facto president of breakaway Abkhazia, was “the most comfortable” candidate for Moscow and expressed hope Bagapsh would also be “comfortable” for Tbilisi.
EU calls on Russia to pull out of disputed Georgian village (Eu Business)
(TBILISI ) – European ceasefire monitors in Georgia on Friday called on Russia to withdraw from a disputed village on the de-facto border with the Moscow-backed rebel South Ossetia region.
INTERVIEW-EU calls on Russia troops to quit Georgian village (AlertNet)
Source: Reuters * EU wants Russian forces to quit Georgian village * Says detentions fuelling tension By Margarita Antidze TBILISI, Dec 12 (Reuters) – European Union monitors in Georgia called on Russian …
INTERVIEW – EU calls on Russia troops to quit Georgian village (The Star)
TBILISI (Reuters) – European Union monitors in Georgia called on Russian forces on Saturday to pull back from a disputed village and warned that detentions on both sides of the de facto border with South Ossetia were raising tension.
Report on Eastern Europe, Russia, Caucasus and Central Asia – issue # 6/2009 (Girodivite)
A person suspected to be a teenage prankster made a hoax bomb threat call on Monday to the Russian nightclub hit by a deadly fire, police said.
Tony Blair told by Azerbaijan victims: ‘Give your £90,000 speaker’s fee to charity’ (Daily Telegraph)
Tony Blair faces pressure to give to charity his £90,000 fee for a speech in Azerbaijan, notorious for its human rights abuses.
Mystery over origins of seized N Korea plane (ABS-CBNNEWS.com)
TBILISI, Georgia – A cargo plane seized in Thailand suspected of smuggling North Korean arms was owned by a Georgian firm but had been leased to a company operating out of either Ukraine or New Zealand, officials said Monday.
Turkish, SKorean firms to build Georgian plants (INO News)
(AP:TBILISI, Georgia) The Georgian government signed a $1 billion deal Tuesday with Turkish and South Korean companies to build three hydroelectric plants.
Azerbaijan’s traditional music thrives again (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Lifting his daf, a traditional Azerbaijani tambourine, to his ear, Mutalim Damirov begins to sing.
Slovakia appoints new Ambassador to Armenia (PanARMENIAN.Net)
Newly-appointed Ambassador Josef Migash Monday submitted the copies of his credentials to RA Deputy FM Arman Kirakosyan.
