Rivals Join Forces in Georgia Region Vote
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The candidate who refused to recognize the results of October's presidential election in Georgia's breakaway Abkhazia region agreed Sunday to be his opponent's running mate in a new election.
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Georgian leader Mikhail Saakashvili is likely to scrape an election win on Saturday in a vote the West will scrutinize for fairness, but polls differ on whether his victory will be big enough to avoid a second round.
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At least four Georgian soldiers were killed and five wounded in overnight clashes in Georgia's separatist, pro-Russian region of South Ossetia, Georgian officers near the frontline with Ossetian forces said early Thursday.
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Large numbers vote in a presidential poll in Nagorno-Karabakh, an enclave disputed between Armenia and Azerbaijan.
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Albanians have cast ballots in municipal elections seen as a gauge of democratic headway made in the former communist bastion as it bids for eventual European Union and NATO membership.
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Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili  voted on Thursday in local elections which will test his  popularity after a major confrontation with Russia.
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Georgia President Mikheil Saakashvili narrowly won re-election over the weekend according to official results, but opposition candidates contested the outcome.
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People in the breakaway region of Azerbaijan vote in the hope their bid for independence will be boosted.
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TBILISI, Georgia President Mikhail Saakashvili said his forces seized strategic heights after fighting in the rebel South Ossetia region Thursday and promised more such victories to fulfill a pledge to reunite his country.
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Georgian leader Mikhail Saakashvili hailed his election win as a triumph for democracy on Monday but his defeated opponent said it was rigged and was gearing up to hold mass protests in the capital.
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Tens of thousands of people demonstrated Tuesday in Georgia's capital, pressing for a presidential runoff but celebrating an agreement giving the opposition more control over the main state-funded television station.
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Republicans and Democrats swapped seats in Georgia and Illinois as they battled for Senate control in a string of races concentrated in the South and West.
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Georgia's opposition vowed on Tuesday to press on with street protests and mount a legal challenge to a presidential election which it says incumbent Mikhail Saakashvili rigged in his favor.
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Thousands join a protest in Georgia against presidential poll winner Mikhail Saakashvili, amid claims of vote-rigging.
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Georgia and Alaska joined the growing list of states pushing up their presidential primary voting to Feb. 5, a date clearly shaping up as a national primary day for Republicans and Democrats
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Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili voted on Thursday in local elections which will test his popularity after a major confrontation with Russia.
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Tension between Russia and Georgia has escalated dramatically following recent clashes between Georgia and two pro-Russia breakaway regions of Georgia, Abkhazia and South Ossetia.