Trending
Escalating Rhetoric Threatens Armenia’s Faltering Democratic Path
3 July 2025
Latest
Latest
- The South Caucasus is Set for Geopolitical Realignment
- Escalating Rhetoric Threatens Armenia’s Faltering Democratic Path
- EU Foreign Policy Chief Kaja Kallas ends visit to Yerevan aimed at strengthening partnership with Armenia
- The EU and Ukraine have concluded an agreement on agricultural exports
- Macron and Putin spoke on the phone for the first time in almost three years; the conversation lasted two hours
- Russia has seized important lithium reserves in eastern Ukraine
Theme
Elections
Stories related to democracy and electoral processes.
Trending
Pashinyan Targets Remnants of Old Regime as Election Showdown Looms
10 June 2025
For over a week now, the Armenian public has been subjected to another unedifying spectacle between the country’s political and spiritual leadership. Tirades posted on social media by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan targeting Armenian Catholicos Karekin II, who he accuses of fathering at least one child despite an oath of celibacy, have been incendiary. The allegation is not new. Armenian media even named an alleged daughter back in 2013. However, Pashinyan’s wife, Anna Hakobyan, further ratcheted up tensions by referring to some members of the clergy as paedophiles while not presenting any evidence.
Filter archive
Trending
Putin re-elected president of Russia
19 March 2018
A Russian state TV exit poll gave him 73.9% of the vote. The victory was widely predicted and marks an increase in his share of the vote from 2012, when he won 64%. The exit poll put the turnout at 63.7%, down on 2012, and the lowest in a presidential election in Russia since 1991
Trending
Russia votes for its next president. No surprises expected
18 March 2018
Incumbent president Vladimir Putin cast his vote on Sunday morning at polling station number 2151 in the Russian Academy of Sciences on Moscow's Kosygina Street. Eight candidates are running for the highest office in the Russian Federation.
Trending
Azerbaijan opposition parties call for boycott of next month's presidential elections
11 March 2018
The Musavat and the National Council of Democratic Forces have both announced they will not take part in the election. Opposition leaders on Saturday (10 March) addressed a rally in Baku calling for a boycott of the election
Trending
Armenia awaits election of its 4th president
1 March 2018
Armen Sargsyan addressed the National Assembly and answered questions from MPs ahead of a parliamentary vote on Friday that is likely to see him elected President
Trending
Azerbaijan announces the number of eligible voters in the forthcoming presidential election
1 March 2018
According to voters' lists published by the Central Elections Commission 5,192,042 are included in the revised voters lists ahead of the presidential election on 11 April
Trending
Kakha Kaladze is the new mayor of Tbilisi
22 October 2017
Municipal elections in Georgia see Georgian Dream consolidating power in most urban centres. Kakha Kaladze won the elction for Mayor of Tbilisi with a convincing margin according to exit polls.
Trending
Georgians vote in Municipal Elections
21 October 2017
A lot of attention is focused on the election for Mayor of Tbilisi where prominent Georgian Dream candidate Kakha Kaladze is competing for the post with several opposition candidates
Trending
Incident in Georgia's Marneuli district results in several casualties
20 October 2017
Several persons were injured in a village in Georgia's Marneuli District on Thursday evening (20 October) when unidentified persons opened fire on a candidate of the ruling Georgian Dream party and his companions, who were canvassing ahead of Saturday's Municipal Elections.
Trending
Elections for Mayors and Municipal authorities will be held in Georgia on 21 October
23 August 2017
President Giorgi Margvelashvili has set the date for the elections in a decree which was countersigned by Prime Minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili