Last Updated 8/28 3:50 PM EST French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said the European Union would consider sanctions against Russia along with other unspecified measures during a meeting to be held on the Georgian crisis Monday, at the behest of as-yet unnamed EU...
US Vows Enclaves Will Never Be Independent as Russian President Recognizes Abkhazia, South Ossetia
Last Updated 8/26 8:40 PM EST Earlier this month when presumptive Republican Presidential Nominee John McCain declared "we are all Georgians," it is unclear if he was referring to the people of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Yet today the Bush Administration made it...
Russian Parliament Unanimously Backs Independence for Abkhazia, South Ossetia
In a move many see as retaliation for the February recognition of independence for Kosovo, both houses of Russia's parliament voted unanimously to recognize the independence of the separatist regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Though not legally binding, the vote...
General: Russian Presence to Remain in Key Port City
Thousands of angry Georgians took the streets of the small but strategically important port city of Poti to protest the continued presence of a Russian checkpoint and patrols on the city's outskirts. Just south of Abkhazia along the coast, the city of Poti had been a...