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Georgia's President Salome Zurabishvili escaped an impeachment attempt by the countrie's legislature on Wednesday. … The ruling party accused Zurabishvili of breaking the law by meeting with EU leaders to drum up support for membership without the government's permission.
Russia will set up a naval base in the separatist Georgian region of Abkhazia, its leader has told Russian media. … Georgia's foreign ministry said it would be a "flagrant violation of Georgia's sovereignty and territorial integrity".
Tbilisi condemned as "completely unacceptable" comments by former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev that the two Georgian breakaway territories of Abkhazia and South Ossetia could be formally annexed by Moscow "if there are good reasons."
Azerbaijan has accused Russia and Armenia of failing to fulfil a ceasefire deal in the Nagorno-Karabakh enclave as Moscow offered to host new peace talks while the European Union urged Baku and Yerevan to refrain from “violence and harsh rhetoric”.
Thousands of opposition supporters rallied Sunday in the Georgian capital Tbilisi as the Black Sea nation's government faces mounting accusations of backsliding on democracy.
After days of protests in the streets, Georgia's ruling party has said it will withdraw a proposed law to classify media and NGOs that receive funding from abroad as "foreign agents."
The Council appointed today Dimitrios Karabalis, a Greek diplomat, as the new Head of Mission for the European Union Monitoring Mission in Georgia (EUMM Georgia).
After nearly three years of complete closure, the doors between South Ossetia and Georgia proper are cracking open. Following the election of a new de facto leader in May, the South Ossetian authorities have already opened two crossing points for three brief periods and in late September, will open them again for a 10-day stretch.
Georgians staged a new mass rally on Sunday (3 July) demanding that the government resign over its failure to formally secure candidacy for membership of the European Union.
Presented with a to-do list of issues to address before they can get status as an EU candidate, Georgians have begun to mull over what the demands from Brussels mean and how the country can fulfill them.