Geneva - Delegates from eight parties started the newest round of talks Tuesday on last year's conflict between Russia and Georgia, though negotiations have so far yielded little results.
The talks at the United Nations' Geneva office will focus on humanitarian and security issues, including a mechanism to prevent and resolve future armed incidents near or within the breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
While the parties have agreed to the mechanism in principle, they were still debating the details of how it would function.
Tskhinvali, South Ossetia - The memory of war in this tiny patch of farm country sunk in the shadow of the Caucasus mountains is long and violent. But the raw anger among South Ossetians huddled amid the freezing, roofless ruins of the recent war in separatist province is sharpened against a new antagonist.
Frans de Waal, professor of 
Brussels - NATO ambassadors held talks with their Russian counterpart on Monday for the first time since the alliance froze relations with Moscow in the aftermath of August's conflict in Georgia.
These days, scientists are busy in developing ‘Love potion.’ Animal studies have shown that the hormone oxytocin can 'reinforce' emotional feelings and enhance monogamy. 
Tbilisi/Moscow - Georgia was hailed by the West as a beacon of democracy and growth in the Caucasus. It had the third largest contingent of troops in Iraq and seemed on a steady track for NATO membership - before its war with Russia.
