But the challenge is how to have a good relationship with nearby Iran while avoiding antagonising the US - Georgia's most important ally - and the EU, which Georgia wants to join.
Four elderly men from the US state of Georgia have appeared in court charged with plotting to murder officials using explosives and the lethal toxin ricin.
Herman Cain, a businessman from the US state of Georgia and early Republican presidential front runner, has announced he is suspending his bid for the White House after a slew of allegations of sexual harassment and an extramarital affair have seen his popularity plummet.
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In some quarters this is seen as the US giving fledgling democracies like Georgia an easy ride.
Rather than the World Cup, this is the RoboCup US Open held this week in Georgia.
Mr Obama will take to the road in the coming days to push his economic recovery proposals, stopping in the US states of North Carolina and Georgia and in his hometown of Chicago, Illinois.
Georgia has been among the US states drawing film-making away from Hollywood with tax incentives in recent years.
At the Georgia Institute of Technology, US, this has led to the development of a smart T-shirt that contains a web of wiring that is capable of monitoring a number of vital signs at once.
"Connecticut, the U.S. is at a crossroads and the nation's eyes are on us and you, " said Newtown resident Georgia Monaghan.
Representative LYNN WESTMORELAND (Republican, Georgia): Thank you for having us, Ed.
An appeal court in Atlanta, Georgia, upheld that dismissal, and the US Supreme Court refused to reopen the case.
The Pinewood Atlanta complex will be built on 288 acres of land south of Atlanta, Georgia, as a joint venture with a US investment company.
Dr. Fisher answered us via her phone from a romantic holiday in Tbilisi, Georgia.
Mr Biden, who arrived in Georgia after visiting Ukraine, said that while the US was keen to maintain good relations with Russia, certain issues were not up for discussion.
He has put himself back in the race by winning Georgia: he gets secret service protection from today, the US Government's seal of seriousness on a candidate.
Professor Lincoln Mitchell of Colombia University in New York says that, since Barack Obama became US president, a narrative has been created in America based on fears in countries like Georgia that the policy of "reset" will mean they get ignored.
The United Church of Christ is believed to have ordained the first gay minister in the US 33 years ago, and for many of those gathered for the general synod in Atlanta, Georgia, the vote was, if anything, overdue.
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