Time heals all wounds, it is said, and that certainly is the case in Russia. Moscow has unveiled a new statue of Joseph ...

Timeline 1918-1921- Georgia is briefly an independent state after separating from the Russian Empire. 1921 – After the Red Army invasion, Georgia and Abkhazia are declared Soviet Socialist ...

He was born on Dec. 21, 1879, in a humble cottage (now a shrine) in the tiny town of Gori in Georgia, an ancient province in transCaucasia. He was one of four children; the others died in infancy.

1801-1804 - Most of present-day Georgia becomes part of the Russian Empire. 1879 - History's best-known Georgian, future Soviet leader Iosif Dzhugashvili (Joseph Stalin), is born in the town of Gori.

An employee checking tickets complains that Gori’s Stalin statue was removed in 2010 when Mikheil Saakashvili was Georgia’s president, and a guide tells a group of Russian visitors that he ...

In Georgia’s parliamentary election on Saturday the specter of authoritarianism looms large once again, as observers fear the governing Georgian Dream party may try to cling onto power.

Gori, Georgia, after the Russian bombing in 2008. Photo: RFE/RL **** Kassymbekova argues that Russia’s colonial ambitions follow a clear, troubling logic. “So what is happening now for historians is ...

Josef Stalin was born as Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili in Gori, Georgia on 18 December 1878. Located in the mountainous Caucasus region between the Black and Caspian seas, Georgia was part of the ...

Russian occupation Seventy-one years after Stalin’s death, Russia is still trying to exert power over the former Soviet republic. A few kilometers north of Gori lies the Russian occupation line.

Last century, Georgia was occupied by the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union. After restoring independence in 1991, a war with Abkhazia broke out. As a result, about 4 000 people from the Abkhaz side ...