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Georgian election goes to second round
29 October 2018
Salome Zurabishvili and Grigol Vashadze will go head to head in a run-off after no candidate secured more than 509% of the vote in Sunday's poll
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Georgia's presidential election
28 October 2018
Voting has closed in elections to choose a new president. 25 candidates contested the election, with over three million voters eligible to vote. Voting proceeded largely peacefully and briskly throughout the day. Turnout appeared to be similar to that in presidential elections in 2013, but 3-4 % lower than in parliamentary elections in 2016.
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Bolton to the sides in the Karabakh conflict: It's up to you
26 October 2018
Today Bolton is in Georgia on the last lap of his tour of the South Caucasus. Expectations are high that there he will say a bit more about how the US plans to approach the region in the future.
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John Bolton holds talks with leaders in South Caucasus
25 October 2018
The US National Security Advisor is the highest ranking US official to visit the region for some time. In Baku at the start of his tour, Bolton met with Azerbaijani president Ilham Aliyev.
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Ivanishvili throws full weight behind Zurabishvili ahead of Sunday presidential elections
25 October 2018
Ivanishvili's marathon TV interview received very mixed response, with GD supporters hailing it as a genuine reflection of the current reality, whilst opposition parties, and some civil society organisations, strongly criticised Ivanishvili's stance on governance and media freedom.
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Pashinyan: "A revolution took place in Armenia, but change of power has not taken place yet"
24 October 2018
The complicated process for triggering early parliamentary elections in Armenia continued in earnest today as parliament considered whether to elect a new prime minister
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Senior Vatican envoy holds talks with Georgian Patriarch
24 October 2018
"The sides expressed concerns over the difficult situation existing between the Patriarchate of Constantinople and the Moscow Patriarchate", according to a report carried by the website of the Georgian Patriarchate
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Pashinyan holds meeting with influential Armenian community leaders during Beirut visit
21 October 2018
At the Beirut meeting were also representatives of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun). The ARF branch in Armenia had a small faction in the outgoing Armenian parliament and played an ambivalent role during the political turmoil of last spring.
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Azerbaijan's SOCAR opens new oil refinery in Izmir
20 October 2018
The USD 6.3 billion Star Refinery will help cut Turkey's dependence on imported refined oil products. It will also boost Turkish refining capacity by 30 percent.