Russia's foreign minister reacted angrily to an announcement from Washington that American troops would be sent to train anti-terrorist forces in ex-Soviet Georgia .
Born in Soviet Georgia in 1937, he received his first prison sentence in 1957 for resisting arrest and, during his third in the 1960s, became a "thief in law", a Russian term comparable to a Mafia "godfather".
Relations between Russia and the former Soviet Republic of Georgia have been tense for some time.
Clashes have broken out in the former Soviet republic of Georgia between government forces and paramilitaries loyal to a local warlord.
President Bush today was in Tbilisi, the capital of the former Soviet republic of Georgia, where he delivered a speech before a cheering crowd.
The president of the former Soviet Republic of Georgia appears to have won a second term after exit polls gave him a majority in yesterday's election.
Demko thinks that some of the most health-conscious boomers will gravitate toward places with a healthy local population, such as Okinawa, the former Soviet republic of Georgia and the Dominican Republic.
After shipping their wine for decades to markets in the former Soviet Union, Georgia's winemakers are now struggling to introduce their products and their unique wine-making techniques to the rest of the wine-drinking world.
In September 2006, Moscow cut off transportation and trade ties with the former Soviet republic of Georgia and deported hundreds of Georgians after officials in Tbilisi briefly arrested four Russian military officers on espionage charges.
Russian forces pushed troops from the former Soviet Republic of Georgia out of a key town 50 miles from the Georgian capital Monday, prompting a plea from President Bush that Russia accept Georgia's move toward a peace agreement.
The former Soviet republics of Ukraine and Georgia also want to move closer to that goal, an effort that has angered Russia.
He is the president of the Republic of Georgia, the former Soviet republic.
Among the club's members are the United States, Russia, Turkey, three ex-Soviet republics in the Caucasus (Georgia, Azerbaijan and Armenia) and all the other countries of Europe.
Annexed by Russia in the 19th Century, Georgia was part of the Soviet Union until 1991.
Russia has kept its military presence not just in Georgia but in other former Soviet republics.
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If reforms fail in Georgia, the nearest post-Soviet success story will be on the Baltic.
The region covers EU countries such as Bulgaria and Romania, as well as Turkey and ex-Soviet Union countries including Ukraine, Azerbaijan and Georgia, and was described by Romanian MEP Ioan Pascu as a "gate to and from Europe".
Georgia's transition from a former Soviet republic into a non-Soviet one began with the Rose revolution of November 2003, in which the 36-year-old Mikhail Saakashvili and his friends pushed aside the 75-year-old Eduard Shevardnadze.
The road, built in 1875 and modernised in Soviet times, is now the main artery between Russia and Georgia.
Believe it or not, there is hope for Vale, unlike so many other similar towns across Georgia and much of the rest of the former Soviet Union.
Since Soviet days, this has been the traditional place to protest in Georgia.
In Azerbaijan there is a growing personality cult surrounding the former leader, who is regarded as a father of the nation, which became independent after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the BBC's Damien McGuinness reports from neighbouring Georgia.
Georgia has experienced much political turmoil since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.
Georgia has to handle several hundred thousand volatile and resentful people, from within Georgia and from outside, displaced in the strife-ridden aftermath of the Soviet Union's collapse.
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