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GORI, GEORGIA—The specter of Joseph Stalin haunts every inch of the room. Sculptures, portraits, and framed newspaper clippings of the moustached dictator populate the hallways. Stalin’s wood ...
GORI, Republic of Georgia — We live in a complicated world. That’s never been more evident to me than in this country and in this city, where the ruthless Soviet leader Joseph Stalin is still ...
In Georgia’s parliamentary election on Saturday the specter of authoritarianism looms large once again, as observers fear the governing Georgian Dream party may try to cling onto power.
Georgia's Interior Ministry says Russian troops have begun pulling out of Gori. Their presence in the strategically key city raised fears that Russia would challenge a cease-fire agreement.
Diplomats and politicians discuss the burgeoning conflict in antiseptic geopolitical terms, but for people who live in the areas under attack there is nothing academic about the grim and bloody ...
GORI, Georgia, August 26 (UNHCR) - The UN refugee agency has opened an office and a temporary warehouse in the Georgian town of Gori as more and more people return to their homes in the region ...
GORI, Georgia -- A stocky man in camouflage fatigues who walked from behind a Russian tank seemed like any other Russian soldier at the main military checkpoint just inside this occupied Georgian ...
GORI, Georgia, August 27 (UNHCR) - People escaping a buffer zone between Georgia and the breakaway South Ossetia region, and others heading the other way and trying to return to their villages in the ...
Russian officials maintain that Russian troops in Georgia, especially in and around the city of Gori, have sought to preserve order. But Gori residents contend that the occupying soldiers have acted ...