Georgia
A tragic anniversary in Georgia
November 06, 2009By Paul Goble Tomorrow, in various ways and with various feelings in their hearts, many people across the former Soviet space will commemorate the 72nd anniversary of the Bolshevik coup d’état. But in Georgia, many will mark the 2nd anniversary...
RFE/RL to Launch Program to Abkhazia and South Ossetia in Russian
October 07, 2009Next month, RFE/RL will launch a news program in Russian to the Georgian regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. The new 60-minute daily radio broadcast, called Ekho Kavkaza (Echo of the Caucasus), will focus on local and international news and current...
Moldova: Strangers In Their Own Land
August 20, 2009By Natalia Morari A friend of my husband's decided to send her daughter, Nastya, to a preschool. According to her, she and her family speak only Russian and know virtually no Romanian. I'm not saying whether that is right or not, but just reporting...
Pro-Georgian Blogger Target of Mass Cyber Attacks
August 08, 2009Security experts say the coordinated cyber attacks which temporarily shut down two popular social networking Web sites Thursday were aimed at silencing a Georgian blogger critical of Russian actions against his country. Facebook's chief security officer...
Russians, Germans Ready to Prepare Common Textbook on 20th Century
June 22, 2009By Paul Goble On the 68th anniversary of the German attack on the Soviet Union, a senior Moscow academician said that Russian historians are close to an agreement with their German colleagues to write a common textbook on 20th history, something possible...
Well-off Muscovite Teenagers More Inclined to View US as Enemy
June 20, 2009By Paul Goble Nearly half of Muscovite teenagers in relatively well-off family circumstances currently view the United States as an enemy of Russia, a view that fewer than a quarter of the poorest and most disadvantaged members of that age cohort share...
Moldovan, Georgian breakaway regions sign cooperation accord
June 02, 2009The central electoral commissions of Moldova's breakaway Dniester region and South Ossetia have signed a cooperation agreement. The chairmen of the commissions, Petr Denisenko and Bella Pliyeva, told journalists after the ceremony of signing that...
Abkhaz Stamps No Longer a Laughing Matter
January 19, 2009Paul Goble A decade ago, Abkhazia issued a stamp in honor of Marx (Groucho not Karl) and Lennon (John not Vladimir) to attract attention and earn money even though no one recognized it or the stamps as legitimate. But now, that breakaway...
Foreign Ministry ready to provide assistance to Moldovans that are in Georgia
August 13, 2008The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration is ready to offer assistance to the Moldovan citizens that are on Georgia’s territory. Moldova’s Embassy in Azerbaijan, and simultaneously in Georgia, keeps in touch with the Georgian...
Council of Europe commissioner horrified by Georgian prison conditions
February 20, 2007Council of Europe Human Rights Commissioner Thomas Hammarberg told journalists in Tbilisi on February 18 that despite the construction of several new prisons, living conditions in Georgia's prisons are still "unbearable" and fail to meet elementary...