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The bride stepped out of a parked car, her white dress collecting dirt from the sidewalk, and placed a bouquet of flowers in front of the building where Soviet soldiers killed Georgian demonstrator… ...
People lay flowers and light candles to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Soviet Union's crackdown on protesters in Tbilisi, Georgia. (Vano Shlamov/AFP/Getty Images) David Bakradze is ...
TBILISI, Georgia (CNN) -- The leaders of a former Eastern Bloc nation and four former Soviet republics showed support for Georgia in its conflict with Russia at a massive rally in Georgia's ...
Georgia’s Soviet-era monuments, conversely, were effectively outlawed in 2011. A significant number have already been removed, including the monumental arches on what was once Republic Square ...
Over the past three decades, Georgia, a country of 3.6 million, has been one of the most pro-West of the former Soviet states. Polls still show that more than 60 percent of its residents favor ...
Russia Former Soviet republic of Georgia sees ruling party cave to massive street protests as it seeks closer EU ties Since Russia's 2008 invasion, Georgia has tried to escape Moscow's grip ...
The Caucasus nation this week considers initial measures to chip away at corruption.
The former Soviet resort town of Tskaltubo in west-Central Georgia is next on the fit-to-bursting agenda. Some 30km (18 miles) inland from the Georgian coast, Tskaltubo was a booming spa town back ...
Eduard Shevardnadze, a groundbreaking Soviet foreign minister and later the president of an independent Georgia, died Monday after a long illness, his spokeswoman said. He was 86. Marina ...
Georgia had been conquered by Russia hundreds of years ago, then forcibly attached to the Soviet Union. Long after the Soviet Union broke apart, this nation, just like Ukraine, was still being ...
When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, the decadent Georgia spa town of Tskaltubo fell off the map. Once an elegant Soviet destination that attracted the elites of the Communist Party, including ...
According to the prominent Russian human-rights group Memorial, during the time that Stalin ruled the Soviet Union, from 1928 until his death in 1953, he was responsible for the deaths of probably ...