UNITED NATIONS — Six Western nations marked the 15th anniversary of Russia’s takeover of 20% of Georgia’s territory ... the South Ossetia and Abkhazia regions. A joint statement by the ...

Protesters on Friday stormed the parliament of the Russian-backed government in the breakaway region of Abkhazia in Georgia and have demanded the resignation of the pro-Kremlin leader President ...

MOSCOW, Aug. 25 -- -- MOSCOW, Aug. 25 -- The Russian parliament unanimously urged President Dmitry Medvedev on Monday to recognize the independence of two breakaway regions of Georgia, a move that ...

The resolution was passed on June 5 by a vote of 69 in favor ... Pacific have recognized the two regions' independence, declared after Moscow defeated Georgia in a short war in August 2008.

(Reuters) - The Russian-backed rebel regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia were recognised by Moscow as independent states after a five-day war last August with Georgia. A year on, only Nicaragua ...

Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili has said on the eve of the fifth anniversary of war between Georgia and Russia that he tried to avert the conflict by proposing that Georgia would abandon ...

UNITED NATIONS — Six Western nations marked the 15th anniversary of Russia’s takeover of 20% of Georgia’s territory ... the South Ossetia and Abkhazia regions. A joint statement by the ...