Georgia

Georgian Prime Minister, Irakli Garibashvili, on Friday stated at the Government House in Bucharest that the main priority of the Government in Tbilisi is to finalize talks on the accession to the European Union, also adding that the authorities in Bucharest have very much supported and continue to support this mission of Georgia.

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Georgian Foreign Minister Tamar Beruchashvili expressed concern about Russia's "creeping annexation" of the two breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.

Beruchashvili was particularly concerned about the agreements Russia has signed with the two separatist regions, which aim at deepening integration, The Moscow Times reports.

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov and Speaker of Georgian Parliament Davit Usupashvili discussed opportunities for cooperation in the fields of energy security, transport, agriculture and tourism.

EU, US move to counter Russian propaganda

New strategies aim to help countries feeling the pressure of destabilising actions by Moscow.

People gather at the Heavenly Hundred monument on February 20th in Kyiv to mark the first anniversary of the clashes that killed Maidan protestors. [AFP]

BELGRADE - The 43rd International Film Festival FEST, set to begin on February 27, will be the first competitive edition of the festival, FEST's new art director Jugoslav Pantelic told Tanjug.

Özgecan Aslan was a 20-year-old university student. She was killed in a private bus after an attempted rape in Tarsus, between Mersin and Adana on the southern coast of Turkey. The perpetrators of the monstrous crime disfigured and burned her body. They have all been arrested. Yet the slogan ?Have you heard Özgecan?s cry?? is still echoing across massive protests all over the country.

Georgia summoned the Ukrainian ambassador to Tbilisi on Monday after the appointment of former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili as an adviser to Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko.

Saakashvili, who served as President of Georgia between 2008 and 2013, has been charged in absentia with abuse of office and organising an attack on a lawmaker, Radio Free Europe reports.

With news that moments after the Ukraine cease-fire went into effect, there were some serious violations, fingers were crossed with wishes that the "glimmer of hope" as described by Angela Merkel - who together with President François Hollande of France brokered the deal in talks in Minsk, Belarus with Presidents Vladimir Putin of Russia and Petro Poroshenko of Ukraine - will hold.

Foreign Affairs Minister Bogdan Aurescu on Friday was received by Georgia's President Giorgi Margvelashvili and had meetings with Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili, Parliament President David Usupashvili, as well as with Georgia's State Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration David Bakaradze, informs a Foreign Affairs Ministry (MAE) release remitted to AGERPRES.

Turkish Energy Minister Taner Yildiz has described the Trans Anatolian Natural Gas Pipeline (TANAP) as a priority project for the country.