By the 1970s the resort was established as a base for a Winter Olympics training ground. Many famous Soviet skiers were trained there and Bakuriani hosted various slalom, bobsleigh, biathlon, and ski flying sporting events.

Lukashenko’s support for Moscow stands in contrast with the neutrality he sought to adopt eight years ago when Russia seized the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine and fomented a separatist revolt in Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region.

Fitch forecasts Georgia's economy to expand by 5.5 percent in 2022 and 5.3 percent in 2023, above the potential of 4.0-4.5 percent.

Kazakhstan is set to produce 1.589 million bpd in February and 1.605 million bpd in March.

In 2013 her career changed direction completely during a conversation she had with one of her old classmates who wanted to straighten his teeth with aligners.