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Date : Sat, 31 Jul 2010 17:28:21 +0500 ARMENIAN LANGUAGE FACES SERIOUS PROBLEMS IN GEORGIA: ACTIVISTS UNABLE TO RAISE CONCERNS TO ARMENIAN FOREIGN MINISTER Tert.am 30.07.10 Each year more and more Armenian schools are shut down in Georgia, Coordinator of Tbilisi Assembly of Armenians, Arnold Stepanyan told Tert.am, adding that the first reason the ...

Date : Sat, 31 Jul 2010 15:41:16 +0500 "CHURCHES IN CONTROVERSY ARE GEORGIAN, NOT ARMENIAN" Aysor July 29 2010 Armenia The churches in controversy located in Georgia's capital and regions, are Georgian, not Armenian, told Armenian reporters in Tbilisi Deputy Foreign Minister of Georgia, Alexander Nalbandov.

Date : Sat, 31 Jul 2010 11:57:31 +0500 ARMENIAN, GEORGIAN, TURKISH AND AZERBAIJANI PRODUCERS TO CREATE JOINT "CAUCASIAN" NEW BRANDS ARMENPRESS JULY 29, 2010 GYUMRI GYUMRI, JULY 29, ARMENPRESS: Armenian, Georgian, Turkish and Azerbaijani producers will create joint "Caucasian" new brands.

Public health officials in the Republic of Georgia have long suspected that CCHF occurs in this country, but laboratory confirmation by using molecular diagnostic techniques has not been possible there until recently.

A music group made of elders from western Georgia prepare to go on stage during the festival of Georgian traditional folk music at the Ethnographic Museum in Tbilisi on July 25.

Georgia may have reformed its police, rebooted its electricity supplies and cracked down on tax dodgers, but when it comes to Georgian drivers, the country faces of one its biggest reform challenges yet.

From : Mihran Keheyian Date : Fri, 30 Jul 2010 11:48:02 +0500 ALEXANDER NALBANDOV: HAGUE COURT EMPHASIZED KOSOVO CASE UNIQUENESS PanARMENIAN.Net July 28, 2010 - 12:44 AMT 07:44 GMT International Court of Justice ruling concerns Kosovo issue only, emphasizing its uniqueness, Deputy Foreign Minister of Georgia Alexander Nalbandov stated.

Despite the number of Georgian Jews who have made aliya over the last 30 or 40 years, the idea of a strong cultural bond between Georgia and Israel seems highly unlikely.

PanARMENIAN.Net - On July 29, Georgia's coast guard has seized the Ukrainian dry cargo vessel Accord loaded with grain for Armenia.

Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili's pick of 28-year-old Canadian-Georgian Vera Kobalia for the key post of minister of economy and sustainable development raised many questions about her qualifications, which did not seem to go beyond working at a family bakery in Vancouver.

Vera Kobalia, the Georgian economy minister, defended her claims of working for the Vancouver-based Global TV and denied doctoring her CV as "disinformation". According to her official biography available on the Economy Ministry's website, Kobalia worked for Global TV as a producer in 2004-2006. However, the Vancouver Sun reported on July 28 that ...

Date : Fri, 30 Jul 2010 11:32:57 +0500 GEORGIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY: SO-CALLED "DISPUTABLE CHURCHES" IN TBILISI AND OTHER REGIONS ARE NEITHER GEORGIAN, NOR ARMENIAN GMTPanARMENIAN.Net July 28, 2010 - 13:24 AMT 08:24 Georgian Foreign Minister Alexander Nalbandov said that the so-called "disputable churches" in Tbilisi and other regions are neither ...

Georgia has come knocking on separatist doors with a basket full of promised grants, investments and social welfare perks, but de facto Abkhaz and South Ossetian officials, wary of Georgians bearing gifts and mindful of Moscow and their own declarations of independence, show no sign of interest in the offering.

The Atlantists are on the ascendant these days in Moscow. Russian President Dmitri Medvedev's hamburger lunch with United States President Barack Obama during his visit to Silicon Valley last month apparently left a pleasant taste in his mouth.

When the new school year starts, Georgian students will receive a new history textbook chronicling 200 years of Russian occupation.

The recent drawing up of a draft Georgian constitution is evidence that President Mikheil Saakashvili is trying to hang onto power after his presidential term expires in 2013, the Georgian opposition leader said.

UNESCO officials meeting in Brazil have added a cathedral and monastery in the nation of Georgia to a list of endangered World Heritage sites.

For Georgia's few remaining Roma, traditional music goes out of fashion. by Eka Chitanava and Temo Bardzimashvili 29 July 2010 LENINOVKA, Georgia Romani roots in Georgia do not run deep.