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Georgia, Abkhazia, S. Ossetia

Last reviewed: 22-07-2009

TWO REGIONS STRUGGLE FOR AUTONOMY


Belgium-based think tank International Crisis Group works extensively in the region. Its website offers analysis, conflict prevention studies and recommendations for future action to solve the crises.

The BBC has detailed profiles on Georgia, South Ossetia, Abkhazia and Ajaria.

Eurasianet carries news, analysis and features, and further news stories can be found at the Institute for War and Peace Reporting Caucasus homepage. IWPR trains and supports journalists across the region and publishes their work at home and abroad.

For more background you could try Human Rights Watch which reports from Georgia. The Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organisation website also carries information on Abkhazia.

To see which aid agencies are working in the region click on the Who Works Where tab above.

Abkhazia has a government website in English as does Ajaria.

AlertNet has maps from the region


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REUTERS PICTURES OF THE DECADE. A Georgian man cries as he holds the body of his relative after a bombardment in Gori, 80 km (50 miles) from Tbilisi, August 9, 2008. ...


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