The Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) is a regional intergovernmental organization in Eurasia. It was formed following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. It covers an area of 20,368,759 km2 (7,864,422 sq mi) and has an estimated population of 239,796,010. The CIS encourages cooperation in economic,political,and military affairs and has certain powers relating to the coordination of trade,finance,lawmaking,and security,including cross-border crime prevention.
Georgia is a transcontinental country in Eastern Europe and West Asia. It is part of the Caucasus region,bounded by the Black Sea to the west,Russia to the north and northeast,Turkey to the southwest,Armenia to the south,and Azerbaijan to the southeast. Georgia covers an area of 69,700 square kilometres (26,900 sq mi). It has a population of 3.7 million,of which over a third live in the capital and largest city,Tbilisi. Georgians,who are indigenous to the region,constitute a majority.
Georgia,officially the State of Georgia,is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States. It borders Tennessee to the northwest,North Carolina to the north,South Carolina to the northeast,Florida to the south,and Alabama to the west. Of the 50 United States,Georgia is the 24th-largest by area and 8th most populous. According to the U.S. Census Bureau,its 2023 estimated population was 11,029,227. Atlanta,a global city,is both the state's capital and its largest city. The Atlanta metropolitan area,with a population of more than 6 million people in 2021,is the 8th most populous metropolitan area in the United States and contains about 57% of Georgia's entire population. Other major metropolitan areas in the state include Augusta,Savannah,Columbus,and Macon. Georgia has 100 miles (160 km) of coastline along the Atlantic Ocean.
The George Foster Peabody Awards program,named for the American businessman and philanthropist George Peabody,honor what are described as the most powerful,enlightening,and invigorating stories in all of television,radio,and online media. The awards were conceived by the National Association of Broadcasters in 1938 as the radio industry's equivalent of the Pulitzer Prizes. Programs are recognized in seven categories:news,entertainment,documentaries,children's programming,education,interactive programming,and public service. Peabody Award winners include radio and television stations,networks,online media,producing organizations,and individuals from around the world.
Athens is a consolidated city-county and college town in the U.S. state of Georgia. Downtown Athens lies about 70 miles (110 km) northeast of downtown Atlanta. The University of Georgia,the state's flagship public university and an R1 research institution,is in Athens and contributed to its initial growth. In 1991,after a vote the preceding year,the original City of Athens abandoned its charter to form a unified government with Clarke County,referred to jointly as Athens–Clarke County where it is the county seat.
Mikheil Saakashvili is a Georgian and Ukrainian politician and jurist. He was the third president of Georgia for two consecutive terms from 25 January 2004 to 17 November 2013. From May 2015 until November 2016,Saakashvili was the governor of Ukraine's Odesa Oblast. He is the founder and former chairman of the United National Movement party. Saakashvili heads the executive committee of Ukraine's National Reform Council since 7 May 2020. In 2021 he began serving a six-year prison sentence in Georgia on charges of abuse of power and organization of an assault occasioning grievous bodily harm against an opposition lawmaker Valery Gelashvili.
The president of Georgia is the ceremonial head of state of Georgia as well as the commander-in-chief of the Defense Forces. The constitution defines the presidential office as "the guarantor of the country's unity and national independence."
William Harris Crawford was an American politician and judge during the early 19th century. He served as US Secretary of War and US Secretary of the Treasury before he ran for US president in the 1824 election.
Sanford Dixon Bishop Jr. is an American lawyer and politician serving as the U.S. representative for Georgia's 2nd congressional district,serving since 1993. He became the dean of Georgia's congressional delegation after the death of John Lewis. A member of the Blue Dog Coalition,he belongs to the conservative faction of the Democratic Party. His district is in southwestern Georgia and includes Albany,Thomasville,and most of Columbus and Macon.
David Albert Scott is an American politician and businessman who has served as the U.S. representative for Georgia's 13th congressional district since 2003. Scott's district includes the southern fourth of Atlanta,as well as several of its suburbs to the south and west. Before his election to Congress in 2002,Scott served as a Democratic member of both chambers of the Georgia Legislature and operated a small business. In 2007,the political watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington named Scott one of the 25 most corrupt members of Congress. In 2023,he succeeded Glenn Thompson as ranking member of the House Agriculture Committee.
Richard Brevard Russell Jr. was an American politician. A member of the Democratic Party,he served as the 66th Governor of Georgia from 1931 to 1933 before serving in the United States Senate for almost 40 years,from 1933 to 1971. Russell was a founder and leader of the conservative coalition that dominated Congress from 1937 to 1963,and at his death was the most senior member of the Senate. He was for decades a leader of Southern opposition to the civil rights movement.
The Georgia General Assembly is the state legislature of the U.S. state of Georgia. It is bicameral,consisting of the Senate and the House of Representatives.
Carl Vinson was an American politician who served in the U.S. House of Representatives for over 50 years and was influential in the 20th century expansion of the U.S. Navy. He was a member of the Democratic Party and represented Georgia in the House from 1914 to 1965. He was known as "The Father of the Two-Ocean Navy". He is the longest-serving member of the United States House of Representatives from the state of Georgia. From 1961 to 1965,he served as the Dean of the US House of Representatives as the longest serving member of the body.
Abraham Baldwin was an American minister,patriot,politician,and Founding Father who signed the United States Constitution. Born and raised in Connecticut,he was a 1772 graduate of Yale College. After the Revolutionary War,Baldwin became a lawyer. He moved to the U.S. state of Georgia in the mid-1780s and founded the University of Georgia. Baldwin was a member of Society of the Cincinnati.
Horace Julian Bond was an American social activist,leader of the civil rights movement,politician,professor,and writer. While he was a student at Morehouse College in Atlanta,Georgia,during the early 1960s,he helped establish the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). In 1971,he co-founded the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery,Alabama,and served as its first president for nearly a decade.
The Bagrationi dynasty is a royal dynasty which reigned in Georgia from the Middle Ages until the early 19th century,being among the oldest extant Christian ruling dynasties in the world. In modern usage,the name of the dynasty is sometimes Hellenized and referred to as the Georgian Bagratids,also known in English as the Bagrations.
Winfred Jarrett Dukes is an American politician from Georgia. Dukes is a former Democratic member of the Georgia House of Representatives.
The Georgia Institute of Technology is a public research university and institute of technology in Atlanta,Georgia. Established in 1885,it is part of the University System of Georgia and has satellite campuses in Savannah,Georgia;Metz,France;Shenzhen,China;and Singapore.
William Burton Jones is an American politician and businessman who currently serves as the 13th lieutenant governor of Georgia. A member of the Republican Party,he previously served as a member of the Georgia State Senate from January 2013 to January 2023,representing the 25th District.
Sergei Anatolievich Gavrilov is a Russian politician who is a Deputy of the State Duma representing the Communist Party of the Russian Federation. He was born in Tula,during the time period of the Soviet Union;and would go on to receive a Candidate of Science in Economics,considered a PhD equivalent,from Moscow State University in 1989.
