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Senior Azerbaijani MP meets head of ODIHR in Baku
13 October 2016
The Vice-Speaker of the Azerbaijani Parliament, and chairperson of the parliamentary Committee on human rights, Bahar Muradova met with the Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), Michael Jorg Link.
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UNM decides to enter parliament
12 October 2016
The decision, taken at a meeting of the Political Council of the party on Tuesday night, has ended several days of political speculation about the future strategy of the party.
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Armenian soldier killed in Karabakh
12 October 2016
Armenian sources say that a soldier of the self-declared Nagorno-Karabakh Republic was killed on Tuesday afternoon (11 October). The dead soldier was identified as 27 year old Sanasar Grigorian.
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Turkey, Russia and Azerbaijan outline ambitious energy agenda.
11 October 2016
The three presidents addressed the 23rd World Energy Congress in Istanbul. Putin and Erdogan later signed the strategic Turkish Stream gas pipeline agreement
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Georgia's new political reality
11 October 2016
A new parliament is being formed following elections on Saturday, presenting to both government and opposition plenty of opportunities and challenges.
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"The European Union is committed to a stable, democratic and prosperous future of Georgia".
10 October 2016
In a statement following parliamentary elections in Georgia the EU said it looks forward "to working with the democratically elected new Parliament and Government to deepen our political and economic relations"
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Patriarch Ilia II congratulates Georgians on elections
9 October 2016
"This election is a victory for all Georgians, winners and losers", the Patriarch said.
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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