The Georgian government is to close its information centre on NATO and the European Union, Georgian media reported on ...

Georgia severed diplomatic relations with Russia in 2008 following Moscow’s recognition of independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Direct dialogue between the two states was maintained only by ...

May 28 is the anniversary of Azerbaijan’s first independent state in the 20th century, declared in 1918. Although short-lived ...

Moscow Calling is Civil.ge’s monitoring of the Russian state media. We are putting our 24 years of experience at the service ...

The country of Georgia is located in the southern Caucasus where Europe meets Asia. The region has often found itself at the ...

After growing up under Russian occupation in eastern Ukraine, Ivan Sarancha fled conscription on his 18th birthday to return to his true homeland. Now he is a national hero ...

Azerbaijan can be a lovely place to visit as a tourist, but it can be Hell on Earth for those forced to live there.

A 19-year-old British woman has been detained in Tbilisi accused of carrying 14kg of cannabis into ex-Soviet republic Georgia. The woman - identified as B.K. - could face 20 years jail or even ...

Those republics already preparing themselves for independence (Armenia, the three Baltic Republics, Georgia, and Moldova ... and the formation of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic. As the official flag of ...

On Soviet Occupation Day, the state flag was lowered at the government administration ... overthrowing the democratically elected government of Georgia and effectively annexing the Democratic Republic ...

February 25 is the date of Georgia’s occupation by the Soviet Army. State flags are lowered at all state institutions ... which was then the Menshevik-controlled Democratic Republic of Georgia. The ...

At dusk on Christmas day, 1991, the iconic hammer-and-sickle flag of the erstwhile Soviet Union lowered for ... Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova ...