Gori (Georgia) - US Politics

Imagine if the only claim to fame of your town was that it was the birthplace of one Josef Stalin, one of the twentieth century's most notorious and controversial figures, a man alleged to have sent millions of citizens of the ...

Georgia on Friday removed a historic bronze statue of Joseph Stalin from his home town's main square in the dead of night, in a repudiation of the ex-Soviet republic's most infamous son.Officials said the six-metre (20-foot) statue would be ...

Stalin monument dismantled in dictator's Georgian hometown to make way for 2008 war memorialAuthorities in Georgia have torn down a monument to Soviet dictator Josef Stalin in his birthplace to make way for a memorial to those killed in the Russian-Georgian ...

Some three or four days into Russia's invasion of Georgia--exactly a year ago--I made it to Tblisi, dumped my bags, and was soon in a car heading toward the front with two Georgian friends. Russian tanks had already burst out of ...

When Russian jets started bombing the Georgian city of Gori, the director of the state Stalin museum had only one thought. On August 11, I took Stalin's personal effects in a taxi to the state museum in Tbilisi for safe keeping ...

Dutch government probe finds Russian cluster bomb killed journalist in Georgia in AugustA Dutch government investigation has found that a Russian cluster bomb killed a television cameraman in Georgia in August, the Foreign Ministry said Monday.Russia denied using cluster munitions during ...

When Russian troops pulled back from Gori, Georgia, Aug. 22, a Southern Baptist overseas relief team in Tblisi scrambled to assess the need for humanitarian assistance.. Russian troops have pulled back to a position six miles outside Gori and continue to control ...

Immediately behind her are the blasted remains of a tenement building in the northern town of Gori, destroyed by Russian bombers last Saturday as they missed their intended target, a military base nearby.. She is one of many victims of the war ...

The warning from U.S. defence secretary Robert Gates came as Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice arrived in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi to hand a formal ceasefire agreement to the country's embattled president, Mikhail Saakashvili, in a show of US ...

Explosions were heard in the strategic Georgian city of Gori today as the Russian pull-out from the area appeared to collapse. At least five explosions were heard near Gori, just outside South Ossetia, which controls the key road between eastern and western ...

Topic: Gori (Georgia)

Travel diaries: Gori, Georgia

Georgia removes historic Stalin statue in home town

Stalin monument dismantled in Georgian hometown

Georgia: One Year Later

Gori museum ready to laud Stalin again

Dutch: Russian cluster bomb killed journalist

In Gori, Relief Logistics Move Forward

Found... the peasant woman whose anguish told the world of the horror of Georgia's war

Rice flies in to Tbilisi as Kremlin shatters Georgia truce

Russia abandons truce and goes back into Georgia

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