Occupied territories of Georgia
On 3 March 2009, Latvian President Valdis Zatlers met Giorgi Baramidze, the Vice-Prime Minister and Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration of Georgia. The president expressed his support for Georgia's domestic reforms and foreign policy. He also asked Baramidze what Russia was doing in those parts of Georgia that it had occupied.
Name of Georgia (country)
Georgia fell under successive Ottoman, Iranian (Safavid, Afsharids, Qajars), and Russian rule during the 15th to 19th centuries. It was re-united as the short-lived Democratic Republic of Georgia (საქართველოს დემოკრატიული რესპუბლიკა "sakartvelos demokratiuli respublika") on May 26, 1918, transformed into the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic (საქართველოს საბჭოთა სოციალისტური რესპუბლიკა "sakartvelos sabchota socialisturi respublika") in 1921, and eventually gaining independence as the Republic of Georgia (საქართველოს რესპუბლიკა "sakartvelos respublika") on November 14, 1990. 
According to the 1995 constitution, the nation's official name is საქართველო "sakartvelo", with "Georgia" given as its English equivalent.