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Ms Aboltina will meet with chairman of the Georgian Parliament David Bakradze during the visit, the press service of the Parliament of Georgia told Trend on Friday.

Batumi will host a two-day meeting of Georgian Central Election Commission's leadership with delegations of representatives of Eastern Europe and Central Asian countries' election administrations on Feb.9, Georgian CEC told Trend.

Press and Information department of the Armenian Ministry of Foreign Affairs informs about this.

Azerbaijan, Baku, Feb. 10 / Trend N. Ismayilova / Azerbaijani minister of economic development Shahin Mustafayev will attend Georgia-Azerbaijan-Turkey Business Forum to be held in "Radisson Blu Iveria" hotel in Tbilisi on February 16, the ministry told Trend today.

Seven Georgian sailors, who were released from the captivity of ship owner after the negotiations carried out by Georgian diplomats, will depart from Odessa to Georgia if the ship owner company covers their salary arrears.

Georgian consul has been allowed to talk to the Georgian national, who was detained for the business activities in Syria few days ago.

Solomon Islands Foreign Minister, Peter Shanel, says his country will not recognize Georgia`s occupied regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia as independent states and considers them as the sovereign territories of Georgia.

European Union diplomat was told by the Abkhaz leadership during a visit to Sokhumi, that the EU should not waste either time or money on its approach of "engagement and non-recognition" as such policy was deemed to be counterproductive by Sokhumi.

The Armenian Surb Nshan Church has come across a new act of vandalism. Head of the Research on Armenian Architecture Foundation Samvel Karapetyan says in his interview with ArmInfo that recently a signal has been received that the marble font broke down during the cleaning of the church from the aftermath of a fire.

South Ossetian opposition leader Alla Dzhioyeva was hospitalized on Thursday after law enforcers tried to take her into custody for questioning, the former Georgian republic's deputy prosecutor general, Georgy Kabulov, said.

In Russia many people think that for gaining Washington's support President Mikheil Saakashvili will offer the territory of Georgia for possible attacking Iran.

WHY Mikhail Khodorkovsky? Ever since his arrest on a Siberian runway in 2003, many have wondered exactly how Russia's richest man came to incur the wrath of Vladimir Putin, his country's once-and-future president.

PanARMENIAN.Net - Tbilisi hosted a series of events dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the formation of the Armenian armed forces.

A man tries to save his boat from the frozen Kura River near Mtskheta, a neighborhood of Tbilisi, capital of Georgia; the Kura is covered with ice for the first time in 50 years A couple take a stroll along a snowy beach in Broadstairs, Kent, as Britain's big freeze shows little sign of relenting Jeff Harrods shovels snow from the footpaths in ... (more)

Georgia, Tbilisi, Feb.9 / Trend N.Kirtskhalia /

Despite a two-day snowfall throughout Georgia, passenger trains run on the country without interruption, Ltd. Georgian Railway told Trend on Thursday.

Legendary Soviet agent Pyotr Zubov used to be the chief of intelligence school. During the Great Patriotic War, he was in charge of the agents working in the enemy's rear.

Low-cost airline Flydubai has announced that it has started flights to its 50th destination since launching operations in 2009, cementing its reputation as the fastest-growing start-up airline in history.

A brutal cold front blamed for hundreds of deaths across Europe is threatening to linger even longer.

Due to heavy snowfall more than 30 villages in Georgian region of Kakheti turned out isolated from the outside world.

The Interior Ministry says that six more people have died as a result of the freezing weather that is keeping the rest of Europe in its icy grip.