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TBILISI -Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said on Wednesday that a peace treaty with Azerbaijan was close to completion, but that his country would not accept...

TBILISI (Reuters) -Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said on Wednesday that a peace treaty with Azerbaijan was close to completion, but that his country would not accept Baku's demands that it change its constitution.

TBILISI -Georgias parliament voted on Tuesday to override a presidential veto of a bill on foreign agents that has plunged the South Caucasus country into crisis, ignoring criticism... -May 28, 2024 at 11:19 am EDT - MarketScreener

For more than a decade, Sara Kemecsei’s animal shelter has cared for the stray dogs of the Georgian capital. But under a contentious bill passed by the country’s parliament on Tuesday, her small shelter on Tbilisi’s outskirts, which cares for up to 50 canines at a time, could be designated an “agent of foreign influence”. The bill on “foreign agents” has sparked a major political crisis in Georgia since the ruling party said in April that it wou...

MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia has detained the deputy head of the armys general staff, Lieutenant-General Vadim Shamarin, on suspicion of large-scale ...

Russias government on Monday suspended a ban on gasoline exports until June 30. In a statement published on Telegram, it said the ban would remain in place for the period from July 1 to... -May 20, 2024 at 01:00 pm EDT - MarketScreener

The Russian government on Monday instructed state-owned gas giant Gazprom not to pay dividends for 2023, according to a decree published on its website, after the company reported its first annual...

Georgia's central bank said on Thursday it had spent $60 million in reserves to support the lari after a surge in demand for foreign currency, its largest such intervention since May 2021. Georgia has been mired in a political crisis over a bill on "foreign agents" passed by parliament on Tuesday, which critics say is authoritarian and Kremlin-inspired. The National Bank of Georgia said the decision to intervene was taken amid "excess demand for currency, which created addi...

Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze rejected on Friday U.S. criticism of a draft "foreign agents" law, saying Washington's statements on the issue were false and reminiscent of earlier meddling which had fuelled violence. The draft legislation, which is winding its way through the Georgian parliament, would require organisations receiving more than 20% of their funding from abroad to register as agents of foreign influence, a requirement opponents attack as authoritarian an...

The Asian Development Bank said on Friday it had agreed a $5 billion replenishment with donors for the banks two funds, Asian Development Fund 14 and Technical Assistance Special Fund 8. ... -May 03, 2024 at 08:15 am EDT - MarketScreener