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The mistakes of Georgia's president should not be used as a pretext to neglect a pro-Western country. Blinking, yawning and scratching, the European Union is waking up to...

Deployment "breaks" ceasefire terms. Catherine Ashton, the EU's foreign policy chief, has said that Russian deployment of an anti-aircraft missile system in Abkhazia, part...

Leaders in the South Caucasus need to think regionally – and, to encourage that, the EU should keep a special representantive there. A ripple of alarm has gone through the...

How justified is disillusionment with Georgia? Six years ago on 2 November, Georgians went to the polls in what would prove to be a vote profoundly marred by fraud. Twenty...

Europe's leaders need to start dictating terms to President Mikheil Saakashvili. If, in 2008, saving Georgia seemed to be the great success of Europe's foreign policy, in...

One year has passed since the conflict between Russia and Georgia and the picture is still foggy. One year after the Georgian war, its outcome is as debatable as the cause....

EU alone in Georgia as UN and OSCE pull out; insecurity continues on the ground. During his visit to Georgia last week (22-24 July), Joe Biden, the US vice-president,...

EU now sole international mission in Georgia after UN and OSCE teams pull out. After the war last summer, an informal division of labour emerged between three international...

Watchdog's report finds all sides involved in the Georgian conflict violated human rights and are now failing to investigate crimes. Both the Russian and Georgian military...

Tbilisi says its focus is on refugees and presses EU to make clear to Russia that it is not ready for ‘business as usual'. TBILISI, Georgia | Georgia's foreign minister...

Nino Burjanadze, a key figure in the Rose Revolution, sets up a new party, attacks the Georgian president over the conflict with Russia and promises to be a ‘predictable'...

Technical meetings will be followed by start of full talks on 2 December. Russia and the European Union will resume talks on a strategic partnership agreement on 2 December...

Backing down on a partnership deal with Russia would send a dangerous signal to the Kremlin. After Georgia, supposedly, everything was different. Europe had woken up to the...

International donors promise to provide Georgia with more post-war aid than World Bank estimates will be needed. Georgia today secured promises of €3.4 billion in...

Dutch government plans to raise investigation's findings at the OSCE. An investigation ordered by the Dutch foreign ministry has found that a Dutch cameraman who died...

Georgian president calls for Russia to withdraw to pre-war positions, wants South Ossetians and Abkhazians sidelined in talks. The European Commission's president,...

Involve civil society, involve women, argue local activists. On 15 October high representatives from the UN, EU and OSCE will meet in Geneva to discuss the security...

The Georgia crisis suggests the EU and NATO should ease the conditions of accession for Georgia. As NATO and the European Union formulate their longer-term responses to...

EU confirms that Russia has dismantled checkpoints in the buffer zones in Georgia and withdrawn its troops. Russia has completed its withdrawal from buffer zones around...