Days before local elections, Georgia's ruling coalition is faced with plummeting ratings and accusations of intimidation by political opponents. Joseph Alexander Smith reports from Tbilisi for commonspace.eu.

There are reports that an Armenian soldier was killed yesterday on the front line separating Armenian and Azerbaijani forces in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone. The soldier was named as Derenyk Manukyan

The two sides have unusually agreed that the report about an Armenian attack on Nakhcivan was false.

A party calling for unification with Russia has won elections in the self-declared republic of South Ossetia. Yet the Kremlin is wary of further provoking the international community and South Ossetia is likely to remain in a state of limbo for a long time.

As Georgia prepares to enter in a new Association relationship with the EU, euroscepticism makes an appearance in an unlikely form ahead of poll. Joseph Alexander Smıth reports from Tbilisi for commonspace.eu.

On 6 June 1944, British, US and Canadian forces invaded the coast of northern France in Normandy leading to the defeat of fascism and nazism in Europe eleven months later.

Two Armenian soldiers have been killed on the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan's Nakhcivan's Autonomous Republic. Armenian sources say that the two soldiers were killed by Azerbaijani sniper fire. The area was the scene of a similar incident earlier this week in which an Azerbaijani soldier died. The soldiers were 26 year old Andranik Yegoyan and twenty-two year old Boris Gasparyan. Despite cease fire that has been in place for the last twenty years daily incidents are resulting in increasing fatalities on both sides.

G7 Communique states that "Russia's illegal annexation of Crimea, and actions to de-stabilise eastern Ukraine are unacceptable and must stop."

Swiss President Didier Burkhalter, who is also current Chairman of the OSCE, had discussions with the Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan, and also met the leadership of the self-declared Nagorno-Karabakh Republic.

An Azerbaijani soldier was killed on Tuesday as a result of violation of the cease fire by the Armenian side according to Azerbaijani military sources. The incident happened in the Nakhchivan sector of the border with Armenia. The victim was a 19 year old conscript from Terter Region, Zaur Hasanli. There is no comment on the incident yet by the Armenian side. Both sides in the conflict regularly accuse each other of violating the cease fire that has been in affect for twenty years.