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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton

Clinton To Visit Caucasus

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will visit Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia as part of an eight-day trip to countries in northern Europe, the Caucasus and Turkey, which she is due to start on May 31. More

Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili proposed jointly hosting the Euro 2020 soccer tournament during a speech to the Azerbaijani parliament in March.

Georgia, Azerbaijan Bid For Euro 2020

Just hours after Azerbaijan's bid to hold the Olympic Games in Baku in 2020 was excluded by the International Olympic Committee, the president of Azerbaijan's Football Federation said his country has submitted a bid to co-host the EURO 2020 soccer championship with neighbor Georgia. More

Alla Dzhioyeva addressed supporters in Tskhinvali in December.

Dzhioyeva Made Deputy PM In S.Ossetia

South Ossetian leader Leonid Tibilov has signed a decree appointing former presidential candidate Alla Dzhioyeva to be deputy prime minister. More

The David Gareja monastery is one of the Georgian Orthodox Church's most sacred sites.

Azerbaijan, Georgia In Border Detente

Visitors to one of the Georgian Orthodox Church's most sacred sites were able on May 21 to visit the entire complex after the border agencies of Georgia and Azerbaijan reached an agreement on access. More

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton addresses participants at a NATO foreign ministers meeting in Chicago on May 21.

Clinton Anticipates NATO Expansion

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has said that NATO should enlarge at the alliance's next summit. More

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Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov (left) and his newly appointed Prime Minister Mogamed Daudov.

Chechen Leader Restructures His Government

Chechen Republic head Ramzan Kadyrov has restructured the government hierarchy, naming an obscure deputy prime minister as premier. More

A man holds his ballot at a polling station in Yerevan during parliamentary elections on May 6.

Will Disputes Within Two Strongest Parties Nix New Armenian Coalition?

Two weeks after the May 6 parliamentary elections, it remains unclear whether President Serzh Sarkisian's Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) will again seek to form a coalition government as it did in 1999, 2004, and 2007. More

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Demonstrators are reflected in a souvenir shop window in Chicago, Illinois, as peace activists march through the street demanding an end to NATO violence ahead of the summit.

NATO Gathers To Discuss Afghanistan, Missile Defense, And Its Own Future

NATO leaders meet in Chicago this weekend for a summit that will focus largely on the alliance's combat-force withdrawal from Afghanistan and its postmilitary role. But contentious plans for a European missile-defense system and the alliance's future vision will also be up for discussion.

NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen at a news conference in Brussels on May 11

NATO Chief Looks To Summit, Dismisses Russian Rhetoric On Missile Shield

In an exclusive interview with a major NATO summit on the horizon where Afghanistan is supposed to dominate the agenda, NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen talks about a range of issues, including expressing regret that Moscow continues to see missile defense as a national threat.

The host and male contestants gang up on seemingly suspecting women respondents in Georgian Imedi TV

Critics Of Georgian Game Show Question Thinking Behind 'Women's Logic'

A new television game show in Georgia, "Women's Logic," features scantily clad women attempting -- and often failing -- to answer basic trivia questions about history, math, and science. Critics say the show is feeding a toxic stereotype and want broadcaster Imedi to take it off the air.

Scuffle Erupts In Georgian Parliament Over Armenian Genocide Issue

A scuffle broke out in the Georgian parliament on April 24 after a deputy suggested that the country consider recognizing the World War I-era Armenian massacres as genocide. Unfortunately, the session was attended by a group of schoolchildren who had come for a lesson on civic education.

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