Meeting in Istanbul on October 30-31 on the initiative of RIAC and Georgian Center on Conflicts and Negotiations (ICCN), Russian and Georgian experts came to a conclusion that stage one of Russia-Georgia thaw is over and previous incentives for rapprochement are no longer working, which brings the bilateral relationship ...
Interview with Nana Gegelashvili, Institute for the U.S. and Canadian Studies, RAS
Interview
Georgia will hold presidential elections on October 27, and it is common knowledge that under Mikheil Saakashvili, the relations between Moscow and Tbilisi have been quite tense. We asked
Nana Gegelashvili
, Head of the Center for Regional Studies at ...
In this exclusive interview with Russia Direct, Grigory Karasin, Russian State Secretary and Deputy Foreign Minister, discusses Abkhazia, South Ossetia and relations with Georgia.
On August 26, 2013, the Republics of Abkhazia and South Ossetia celebrated the fifth anniversaries of their independence and the establishment of diplomatic relations with Russia. The day before this, Russian President Vladimir Putin paid a working ...
Russia and Georgia’s clash over South Ossetia happened five years ago, but today it feels like an age away. Much has changed since then in Georgia and Russia, as well in all the countries that were indirectly involved in the conflict.
Georgia was the first ...
Compelled to Reset
Accession of the Georgian Dream opposition alliance to power by way of parliamentary elections gives rise to prospects for sweeping renewal of bilateral relations between Moscow and Tbilisi. Opposition leader Bidzina Ivanishvili made public his intentions “
to find ...