Abkhazian police defiant
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Police in Georgia's breakaway Abkhazia region refuse to take orders from the government.
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Police crack down on opposition protests after president declares himself victorious in disputed poll
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SUKHUMI, Georgia  - The breakaway Georgian region  of Abkhazia defiantly voted for a new president on Sunday,  injecting further tension into relations between Georgia and  its former colonial master Russia.
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Â· Police stand by as thousands gather Â· Kremlin claims coming elections will be fair
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British officials chose unusually sharp language to protest Moscowâs refusal to extradite the man accused of murdering a former KGB agent.
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Georgian troops continue an operation against a rebel group in the breakaway Abkhazia region, as tension grows in the region.
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Zimbabwean police have vowed to block an anti-government rally planned in Harare by a coalition of opposition and rights groups on Sunday.
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The high court in the breakaway Georgian region of Abkhazia again reversed itself on whether presidential election results were valid, saying Friday an earlier ruling nullifying them should be ignored because court officials made it while being held hostage.
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Police are treating the death of Georgian opposition leader Badri Patarkatsishvili as suspicious, a spokeswoman said Wednesday.
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Election officials counted ballots Monday after Georgia's breakaway Abkhazia region held its first post-Soviet presidential election, a race in which all five candidates vowed to keep the separatist Black Sea resort area independent of Georgia.
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Zimbabwean opposition activists ignored warnings by police and vowed to stage an anti-government rally planned in Harare by a coalition of opposition and rights groups.
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Police evicted a handful of families Wednesday from temporary homes set up to house them after they were displaced 15 years ago by fighting in Russia's troubled North Caucasus, a human rights activist said.
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Police detained opposition activists Tuesday in a provincial city at a protest that Kremlin critic Garry Kasparov said was thwarted by Russian authorities intent on silencing dissent
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Officers treating UK death of businessman Badri Patarkatsishvili as suspicious
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Five candidates squared off Sunday for the presidency of breakaway Abkhazia, all vowing to keep the separatist Black Sea resort area independent of Georgia, which dismissed the election as illegal.
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An opposition leader is preparing to swear himself in as president in Georgia's breakaway republic of Abkhazia two months after a disputed election, defying Moscow in a situation that threatens to present the Kremlin with another Ukraine-type crisis.
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Marcos Baghdatis defended his actions Friday after being captured on video chanting anti-Turkish slogans with the Greek supporters' group involved in a clash with police at the Australian Open.