GEOGRAPHICALLY the Transcaucasian region forms a bridge between East and West, between Asia and Europe. Politically it has been a perpetual battleground of opposing civilizations and of invading ...

TBILISI, Georgia (CNN) -- The leaders of a former Eastern Bloc nation and four former Soviet republics showed support for Georgia in its conflict with Russia at a massive rally in Georgia's ...

"The administrative-territorial border, which existed between the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic at the time of the USSR’s disintegration ...

including the newly annexed Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic. Conditions were brutal and fatalities commonplace. This letter from Bishop Maxim of Serpukhov, a Russian priest, is a moving testament ...

Officially known as the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), the state was made up of 15 republics – including Russia, Ukraine, Georgia, Belorussia, Uzbekistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan ...

A former Evangelical Baptist archbishop in the small country of Georgia is behind the "Peace Cathedral," a Christian church, a synagogue and a mosque all under one roof. It's an ambitious effort to ...

Tamar Gakharia came of age as the Republic of Georgia struggled to rebuild after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Raised by two doctors who lost everything, she was determined to build a future ...

On Dec. 30, 1922, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics ... The USSR was eventually made up of 15 republics: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia ...