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South Caucasus
Stories under this heading cover the South Caucasus – a region encompassing Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia, as well as the unrecognised entities of Abkhazia, South Ossetia, and Nagorno-Karabakh.
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Armenia and Azerbaijan Dialogue in the context of the European Political Community
12 June 2025
The latest European Political Community summit held in Tirana in May this year, featured Azerbaijan’s President Aliyev at a time when Baku’s period of bad blood with Brussels seems to be over and Europe once again is viewed as a constructive partner. It is not a coincidence that Aliyev briefly met Pashinyan in Tirana for the first time in months and even had a seemingly friendly conversation with French President Macron despite the two countries’ intense feud.
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NGO findings in line with official election results
9 October 2016
In the wake of yesterday's parliamentary elections, Georgia's largest election monitoring NGO, the International Society for Fair Elections and Democracy (ISFED), issued its own parallel vote tabulation (PVT), a count of the proportion, list vote performed in tandem with the official count by ISFED staff.
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Georgia's night of horrors
9 October 2016
Commentary: For Georgia, the night of 8 to 9 October can be described as the return of the ghosts of the past, threatening to derail the country's significant, but still fragile, achievements in the process of democratic state-building
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LIVE BLOG - Georgia's Parliamentary Elections 8 October 2016
8 October 2016
Georgian Dream have won the parliamentary elections in Georgia, winning with a wide-margin.
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Georgian NGOs give positive assessment of pre-election environment
7 October 2016
Three respected Georgian NGOs: GYLA, ISFED and TI Georgia, have given a positive assessment of the pre-election environment in a report issued on the eve of the parliamentary elections. They also noted some shortcomings.
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Fresh violence in the Karabakh conflict zone
7 October 2016
One Azerbaijani soldier was killed and one Armenian wounded in separate incidents on the line of contact over the last days
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Georgians urged to vote in Saturday election
7 October 2016
The number of registered voters, according to the latest information from the Central Elections Commission is 3,513,884.
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Has democracy become routine in Georgia? A competitive parliamentary election suggests so
6 October 2016
In this report from Tbilisi for commonspace.eu, Dr Carles Jovaní looks at the choices available to the Georgian people as they head to the polls on Saturday, unpacking the policies of the eight main contenders for seats in the 150-member parliament.
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Commentary: The old politics is still not quite dead in Georgia, but its end is near
6 October 2016
One can still see signs of the old politics in Georgia’s political campaigning, but they are the signs of a dying political culture that is slowly but surely making way to something much better, and much healthier. How the process will play out on election day itself - 8 October, will either seal this trend or reverse it.
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Opposition rally in Tbilisi passes off peacefully
6 October 2016
Supporters of the opposition United National Movement gathered in central Tbilisi on Wednesday to listen to their leaders assuring them of victory in Saturday's polls. The event passed off peacefully and without incidents. Commonspace.eu special correspondent in Tbilisi, Felix Light mingled with the crowd, and later filed in this report.