The leaders of the organization's member states met in Astana, and they -- led by Kazakhstan's Nursultan Nazarbayev -- appeared to be leaning toward letting Belarus take over ahead of schedule.
Russian military officials renewed their scare campaign about a U.S. research lab in Georgia, this time bringing Azerbaijan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan into it, as well.
The women said they entered the contest to try to show Georgians more about their region, which in recent years has been stereotyped as a hotbed of Islamist radicalism.