With 1 million people displaced in Ukraine, the European Union is weighing humanitarian concerns against immigration worries.
Under President Giorgi Margvelashvili, Georgia has seen heavy debt as well as a 30% drop in the value of the lari.
“I do not think that the Danes fully understand the consequences" of joining a NATO defense program, a Russian diplomat says.
In an interview with Russian television, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said he was concerned Kiev might stage "provocations."
The original deployment was rescheduled for fears it would affect a fragile ceasefire agreement.
Russia launched massive military drills in February along its borders with the Baltic states.
The ruble has lost nearly half its value since mid-March last year, when Russia was subjected to Western sanctions.
Strains have been growing within the 28-country bloc over sanctions which some member governments have only supported reluctantly.
The soldier was reportedly arrested in Crimea about 20 miles from the Ukrainian border in an attempt to see family in southern Ukraine.
Three independent experts say there's physical evidence a Russian Buk missile shot down Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over East Ukraine on July 17.
The government in Kiev can't provide all the army needs to fight rebels, so civilians are stepping in.
American F-16s are now flying in the NATO country closest to the fight in Ukraine.
The list reportedly includes the names of more than 60 people from the United States.
The two sides will reportedly discuss their energy partnership, which has stalled amid U.S. sanctions against Moscow.
A state-run poll of 1,600 Russians found 89 percent said Russia should not return Crimea to Ukraine in exchange for an end to economic sanctions.
The Ukrainian parliament had earlier approved a law that gave Donetsk and Luhansk a special status of “temporarily occupied."
Worried about a Crimea-like annexation, the Baltic country plans to spend $15.9 million to secure its eastern border.
Residents of the peninsula have seen a marked increase in the cost of living, along with booming property and rent prices.
The foreign minister's comments came as the Ukrainian government was reporting more attacks by pro-Russian rebels.
Putin also said that Russia had saved the life of Ukraine's former pro-Moscow president, Viktor Yanukovich, who he said had been in danger after 'revolutionaries' seized power.
The two leaders spoke by phone Saturday, calling on separatists to respect a ceasefire agreement in eastern Ukraine.
Hungarian and Russian officials deny the lucrative deal is threatened by Euratom's requirements for fuel-supply diversification.