In 1994, they joined another peacekeeping force in Georgia's breakaway Abkhazia region, to stop fighting and ethnic cleansing, with only limited success. Russian troops are still stationed in all ...

Georgia has withdrawn its agreement for the presence of Commonwealth of Independent States peacekeepers in breakaway Abkhazia after an October 30 conflict between Georgian police and Russian ...

Russia has distributed passports to most in South Ossetia and Abkhazia and stationed troops they call peacekeepers there since the early 1990s. Georgia's Interior Ministry accused Russia of using ...

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev warned Georgia on Wednesday Moscow would not stand for "provocations" against Russian peacekeepers in Georgia's breakaway Abkhazia region. Georgian police on ...

As you know, Russia has maintained and continues to maintain a presence on Georgian territory on an absolutely lawful basis, carrying out its peacekeeping mission in accordance with the agreements ...

Georgia says it will move to formally ask Russian peacekeepers to leave the breakaway region of Abkhazia following reports that they seized and beat five Georgian police officers. The incident on ...

President Bush condemned the escalated violence between Russia and U.S.-backed Georgia on Sunday, while Vice President Dick ...

Georgian officials are urging the EU to convince Russia that the current format of its peacekeeping mission in South Ossetia is not workable. The head of the Georgian parliament’s Committee of ...

MOSCOW — Tensions between Russia and Georgia threatened to flare into open warfare Tuesday as each accused the other of bombing villages in the separatist region of Abkhazia. Russian and ...

May 1994 - A ceasefire is agreed upon and signed between the Georgian government and Abkhaz separatists. Russian peacekeeping forces are deployed to the area. October 2001 - Fighting resumes ...

Soviet - later Russian - peacekeepers are deployed. 1991 - Georgia declares its independence and Zviad Gamsakhurdia is elected president. He is deposed in a coup and a brief civil war lasts until ...

Soviet - later Russian - peacekeepers are deployed. 1991 - Georgia declares its independence and Zviad Gamsakhurdia is elected president. He is deposed in a coup and a brief civil war lasts until ...