Police Disperse Opposition Picketers in Georgia
3 hours ago‎
By Olesya Vartanyan and Ellen Barry--Tbilisi Georgia (New York Times)-- Police dispersed a gathering of around 100 demonstrators with clubs on Monday, seizing journalists' cameras, as street protests against President Mikheil Saakashvili's government extended into a third month....

Crowds have tapered off since April 10, when huge peaceful demonstrations first gathered to demand Mr. Saakashvili's resignation, but several recent protests have ended violently..... On Friday, as Georgia's parliament gathered for the first time since the opposition campaign started, protesters waited outside Georgia's parliament and pelted several members, and the speaker, with eggs. Later, they threw rocks at security guards.

Diplomats from France, Britain and the United States condemned the protesters. The United States Embassy released a statement saying their actions "crossed a line from free expression of opinion to criminal activity." Opposition leaders complained that foreign diplomats should not involve themselves in the country's internal politics....

And speaking of Georgia,

Russia threatens to veto West's UN Georgia plan
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By Louis Charbonneau UNITED NATIONS, June 15 (Reuters) - Russia's dispute with Western powers over its neighbor Georgia came to a head on Monday as Moscow threatened to veto a Western plan to extend the mandate of a U.N. mission in the former Soviet republic....

Georgia President Urges UN To Renew Abkhazia Mission As Part Of Georgia
June 15
TBILISI, Georgia (AFP)--Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili on Monday urged the United Nations to renew its monitoring mission in Abkhazia while still recognizing the breakaway region as part of Georgia....

and speaking of Russia,

Russia Seeks Bigger Afghan Role Before BRIC Summit
By Lyubov Pronina
June 15 (Bloomberg) -- President Dmitry Medvedev will seek to increase Russia's role in resolving the conflict in Afghanistan at a regional security summit that may also include talks with reelected Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Russia's contribution may include "giving Afghanistan practical assistance in restoring its economy and expanding the practice of regular political consultations," Sergei Prikhodko, an aide to Medvedev, told reporters in Moscow yesterday.

Medvedev will meet with his Afghan and Pakistani counterparts, Hamid Karzai and Asif Ali Zardari, today during a summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, a six-country security alliance that includes China and four former Central Asian Soviet republics. The two-day forum in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg will be followed late tomorrow by the first summit of the so-called BRIC countries.

Medvedev has repeatedly said Russia is prepared to cooperate with the U.S. to bring order to Afghanistan...

Iranian president puts off Russia trip
The Associated Press - ‎11 hours ago‎
...The change in plans came amid street protests in Iran following Ahmadinejad's re-election in a bitterly disputed vote Friday. The embassy did not give a reason for the decision....