... said in an e-mailed statement Friday. Exports rose 37.7 percent in 2011 from a year earlier to 16.9 million liters. Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan topped the list of customers. Russia prohibited imports of Georgian mineral water and wine in 2006 after Georgia expelled four Russian servicemen whom it accused of espionage. Georgia last year backed Russia's bid to join the World Trade Organization, clearing the way for formal approval of its membership bid on Dec. 16. (Bloomberg)

ISTANBUL — The leaders of Georgia and Turkey have welcomed 15 Georgian and three Turkish sailors who were released more than a year after their Greek-owned ship was captured by Somali pirates. Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan...

U.S. President Barack Obama said Monday that the United States and Georgia were exploring the possibility of a free trade agreement to expand commerce and strengthen trade relations. WASHINGTON — U.S. President Barack Obama said Monday that the United States and Georgia were exploring the...

The latest Pacific island nation caught in the tug-of-war struggle of influence between Georgia and Russia is Fiji, which recently received 200 new netbook computers by virtue of Georgia's Education Ministry. The latest Pacific island nation caught in the tug-of-war struggle of influence between Georgia and Russia is Fiji...

... majority in parliament. "The last thing I want to do is to turn myself into a lame duck by speculating about my own future," Saakashvili told reporters in Washington on Tuesday. "People ask me, 'Are you going to be Putin?' By definition Georgia can have no Putin. Georgia is not Russia and we are right now doing things that would enable us never to have anything like Putin in Georgia," Saakashvili said, joking that at 43 he was too old for a political career. Georgia approved constitutional...

... hospitals and clinics that have been popping up across the country like weeds. The construction of these new units was financed by various Georgian insurance companies. For the record, the United States is not spending $5 billion to build new facilities in Georgia in anticipation of war with Iran. It would be a good story if it were true, but the fact is that Russia Today, David Icke, Alex Jones and thousands of crazy left-wing bloggers have picked up on the canard spread by Elizbar Javelidze, the education...

... Nursultan Nazarbayev to Ukraine's would-be Putin, President Viktor Yanukovych — will not survive in power for long. In fact, authoritarianism was already on the way out in the former Soviet Union, but the global economic crisis halted the process. Georgia was the first to oust its Communist apparatchiks. Ukraine followed, but — owing to internal discord, Kremlin pressure and the European Union's indifference — the Orange Revolution was unable to deliver on the promise of democracy....

... — implying the United States. I regret to say that the defense analysts who riled Putin so much were Alexander Konovalov and yours truly. Putin began by saying that if the United States deploys radar installations for a missile defense system in Georgia, Russia might be forced to aim some of its missiles at Tbilisi. The problem with that argument is that Washington has no plans to deploy any radar facilities in Georgia. True, four Republican U.S. Senators proposed this idea last year, but it...

... of uprisings in Egypt, Libya and Syria in the Arab Spring have shown. But peaceful movements for regime change often do succeed. For example, they have toppled illegitimate rulers, as with the post-Soviet Color Revolutions in Georgia and Ukraine, and ended apartheid in South Africa. Nonviolent revolutions do not always remain nonviolent, as the examples of uprisings in Egypt, Libya and Syria in the Arab Spring have shown. But peaceful movements for regime...

... party, said Tuesday that the ambassador was acting in an "open and cynical manner." McFaul also rejected Isayev's contention that he's an "expert" in Orange Revolutions, referring to popular upheavals in the former Soviet nations of Georgia, Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan. "I'm an academic, a political scientist and a sociologist, not a professional revolutionary," said McFaul, a former professor at Stanford University and longstanding Russia specialist who was the top White House...

... a database of existing and potential customers, updating corporate presentations recommendations for the positioning of real estate objects and developing a marketing strategy Projects in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Georgia and Kazakhstan.</td></tr> <tr><td valign="top"><b>Computer Skills:</b></td><td>Microsoc Office, iWork, InDesign, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Lightroom, Loggia, MAC platform</td></tr>...

... republics. Today, 62 percent of Russians support the slogan "Stop Feeding the Caucasus!" Such rhetoric stirs up the negative sentiment toward all migrants from the Caucasus region, whether they come from Russia's own republics or from Azerbaijan, Georgia and Armenia. Finally, Russians increasingly perceive migrants from the former Soviet republics as culturally different. The share of immigrants who grew up after the demise of the Soviet Union and do not know the Russian language is rising. Over...

... confrontations between Islamist militants and law enforcement agencies. It is also adjacent to Abkhazia, a region that broke free of Georgian control in the early 1990s and was recognized by Moscow as independent after the 2008 war between Russia and Georgia. Biggest Construction Site No matter who is running Russia, getting Sochi ready for the games remains a huge task, with the ice arenas and athletes' village being built in the subtropical city and snow and sliding venues in the nearby mountains...