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Attorneys representing the Georgian Republic appeared before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) Monday seeking emergency orders to stop the alleged killing and mass displacement of citizens in the breakaway regions of South Ossetia...

JURIST Guest Columnist Christopher Waters of the University of Windsor Faculty of Law in Windsor, Ontario, Canada, says that even assuming that Russia has a legitimate self-defence claim on the basis of protection of its nationals abroad its actions against...

Georgia is forcibly detaining Russian citizens within its borders in violation of international law, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said in a Monday communication with Minister of Internal Affairs Rashid Nurgaliev. In the communication, Medvedev instructed Nurgaliev to...

International human rights groups on Saturday condemned any violence Russian or Georgian forces might commit against civilians in the separatist region of South Ossetia , warning that those actions may amount to war crimes. After a period of...

JURIST Contributing Editor Michael Kelly of Creighton University School of Law says that for historical and humanitarian reasons Kosovo's bid for self-determination will prevail over Russian legal objections despite the fact that the province's unilateral secession from Serbia has been...

The Georgian Republic ended its national state of emergency Friday, as promised earlier this week. On Wednesday, Georgian Speaker of Parliament Nino Burdzhanadze had announced in a televised statement on behalf of the government that...

The Parliament of the Georgian Republic approved a presidential decree on Thursday bringing an end to the country's national state of emergency effective Friday. Chairwoman of the Parliament Nino Burjanadze announced the decision...

The Georgian Republic will end its national state of emergency this Friday, Georgian Speaker of Parliament Nino Burdzhanadze said Wednesday. Burdzhanadze made the announcement on behalf of the government in a televised statement after the...

The Parliament of the Georgian Republic voted Friday to approve a 15-day state of emergency imposed by President Mikhail Saakashvili earlier this week. Opposition members boycotted the vote and the measure passed the 235-seat assembly...

The Russian Foreign Ministry on Thursday denounced the state of emergency imposed Wednesday in the neighboring Georgian Republic as "a gross violation of human rights and democratic freedom." Russia urged the United Nations, the Council...