Georgia tensions rise after close-run polls
Tbilisi: Georgia’s opposition on Tuesday scented victory over President Mikheil Saakashvili’s ruling party in hard-fought parliamentary polls, but a complex voting system means the result...
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Georgia votes in ‘historic’ election showdown
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Tbilisi: Georgia voted in “historic” parliamentary polls Monday as President Mikheil Saakashvili’s party clashed with a billionaire tycoon in the strongest challenge to its rule...
Georgia’s Saakashvili battles billionaire rival at polls
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Tbilisi: Georgians vote Monday in parliamentary polls as President Mikheil Saakashvili’s party faces a billionaire-led opposition in a test of the ex-Soviet state’s democracy overshadowed...