... turn, has shown an interest in increased cooperation with Georgia. Yet is possible that relations between Russia and Georgia not only won't deteriorate, but stand to improve even after Georgia's most recent actions toward the EU.
Russian-Georgian relations have always been complex. For centuries, Russia influenced the internal affairs of Georgia. Even after Georgia gained its independence from the Soviet Union, Russian and Georgian relations were strained. Specifically, Russia supported ...
... aircraft missiles in 2005), Serbia (250 Zastava M93 sniper rifles and 100 AGS-17 automatic grenade launchers in 2007), as well as Bosnia and Herzegovina (200 mortars in 2010).
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Table 1. Largest Arms Suppliers to Transcaucasia in 2000-2013.
Azerbaija
Georgia
Armenia
Russia
130 Т-90SA tanks
62 Т-72 tanks
100 BMP-3s
n/a BTR-80s
70 BTR-80/82
450 artillery pieces, MRLS units and mortars
24 Mi-35М helicopters
60 Mi-17 helicopters
2 divisions of S-300PMU-2 antiaircraft missile systems
300 shoulder-fired missiles
...
... Shevardnadze’s multi-vector policy on Russian intransigence. In the early years after the collapse of the USSR, the United States pursued a unipolar policy that caused resentment on the part of all the other civilizations, including Europe. It took the Russian-Georgian war to realize that the alternative to a bipolar world was a multipolar – not a unipolar – world. It was only under President Obama that the United States shed this political euphoria.
To sum up, Shevardnadze was an outstanding politician,...
... from Georgia into Russia intensified, with the balance between the countries rising from 25,000 in 2004-2007 to 38,000 today. Migration is an unequivocally positive phenomenon that has been a locomotive of progress and development globally and in the Russia-Georgia relationship. It has enriched the two countries in the fields of culture, economy, science, and education among others. At the same time, various harmful consequences may follow as a result of a misunderstanding of its importance essence and subsequent ...
Terrorism and Russian-Georgian Border Zone Security
It is widely accepted that Russia and Georgia are tough and irreconcilable opponents with differences and disagreement over a wide range of issues. At the same time, Moscow and Tbilisi often face common threats, and the ...
... gradual resumption of trade and economic links, it is still too early to assume there is fully-fledged cooperation in place between Russia and Georgia. Russia’s place remains quite insignificant in both commodity and capital markets in Georgia.
Russian-Georgian Trade Cooperation
Trade today is being regulated primarily by the Agreement between the Government of the Russian Federation and the Government of Georgia on the underlying principles of customs administration and monitoring of trade in goods ...
On May 8, 2014 the Russian-Georgian Civic Center, Tbilisi, hosted the presentation of working paper “
Russian-Georgian Relations: in Search for New Ways for Development
” issued jointly by RIAC and Georgian International Center of Conflicts and Negotiations (
ICCN
)....
... Moscow’s most problematic partner of all the Transcaucasian states. And this has happened despite a common two-century history and Orthodox faith as well as the cultural influence that has shaped the development of the two countries.
The history of the Russian-Georgian relations covers several centuries, but the question of what lessons have been learned from the two states’ coexistence still remains open.
The starting point of bilateral relations dates back to the
Treaty
initiated by Kartli-Kakheti ...
On April 3, 2014 the RIA Novosti News Press Center held a roundtable "Russia-Georgia: Normalization of the Relationship".
The discussion was attended by Director of Center for Global Studies Nana Devdariani, Director of Center of Center for Integrated Development Studies at Tbilisi State University Levan Metreveli, as well ...
On April 2, 2014 Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin, State Secretary and RIAC Member, received the participants of Russian-Georgian Conference on Regional Security and Bilateral Cooperation. The meeting with the top Russian official was part of the visit of the Georgian think-tankers to Moscow that was opened by meetings in RIAC on March 31 and April 1, 2014.
As described ...
