Topic: Anatoly Nogovitsyn

MOSCOW, Oct. 31 (UPI) -- On Oct. 21, Adm. Michael Mullen, the chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, met with his Russian counterpart, Army Gen. Nikolai Makarov, at a mansion outside Helsinki, Finland.

MOSCOW, Sept. 23 (UPI) -- It is important to remember that throughout the Russian army's Aug. 8-12 operations in Georgia, Russian forces were restricted by a series of political commitments that prevented them from using heavy weapons in populated areas and greatly limited their counter-fire activities.

MOSCOW, Sept. 9 (UPI) -- Russia plans to send regular soldiers to protect the breakaway Georgian regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Tuesday.

TBILISI, Georgia, Sept. 3 (UPI) -- Georgia has officially notified Russia it is cutting formal diplomatic ties, the Foreign Ministry announced Tuesday.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 2 (UPI) -- Israel’s below-the-radar military relationship with Georgia led President Saakashvili to think of his country as the Israel of the Caucasus. This contributed to Vladimir Putin’s decision to punish Georgia and strip it of its two breakaway provinces.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 27 (UPI) -- The five-day military conflict between Russia and Georgia over the disputed enclave of South Ossetia has thrown into the spotlight a nearly forgotten 72-year-old treaty governing the passage of both merchantmen and warships between the Mediterranean and Black seas through the Bosporus and Dardanelles, collectively known as the Turkish Straits.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 25 (UPI) -- Expect more military flare-ups in the former Soviet republic of Georgia soon, despite the French-brokered cease-fire that took effect last week.

TBILISI, Georgia, Aug. 23 (UPI) -- Georgian officials Saturday said Russian troops have withdrawn from major portions of the country but are keeping some checkpoints running.

MOSCOW, Aug. 22 (UPI) -- Russia sent its troops home from Georgia Friday after temporarily breaking an accord with NATO, a military spokesman said.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 21 (UPI) -- The brief conflict between Georgia and Russia over South Ossetia had a largely overlooked naval component. Now Washington is seeking to send maritime assistance to Georgia via the Turkish Straits, which remain under Turkish sovereignty due to a 72-year-old treaty. Negotiations for the assistance continue.