UPI Almanac for Thursday, Aug. 13, 2009.

UPI Almanac for Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2009.

MOSCOW, Aug. 3 (UPI) -- Georgian leaders have accused Russia of attempting to take a sliver of Georgian territory along the boundary of South Ossetia.

TBILISI, Georgia, July 23 (UPI) -- The United States sees the government of Georgia as a key partner in terms of European energy security, the U.S. vice president said.

TBILISI, Georgia, July 23 (UPI) -- U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden promised the Georgian Parliament Thursday the United States will not recognize Georgia's breakaway regions.

WASHINGTON, June 9 (UPI) -- Georgia hopes to continue its free-trade arrangements with members of the Commonwealth of Independent States after its withdrawal from the organization takes place on Aug. 18. Given the aftereffects of its ill-advised five-day military clash with Russia last August, that may prove to be a forlorn hope, as the confrontation reminded the other Caucasian former Soviet republics of Azerbaijan and Armenia that Moscow is determined to protect what Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has labeled its "privileged interests" in the former Soviet space.

TBILISI, Georgia, May 27 (UPI) -- The Georgian opposition has filled a 60,000-seat soccer stadium to bring about the resignation of President Mikheil Saakashvili.

WASHINGTON, May 18 (UPI) -- For nearly 20 years since the collapse of the Soviet Union and its Eastern European satellite system began in fall 1989, NATO planners did not have to contemplate the prospect of having to face any serious military challenges or conflicts in Europe. But in August, that changed.

WASHINGTON, May 15 (UPI) -- The North Atlantic Treaty Organization for 40 years through the Cold War focused on its mission of being able to fight a defensive war in Europe if necessary against the military forces of the Soviet Union and, after 1955, of the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact.