Abkhazia rallies for independence
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Up to 40,000 people march in Abkhazia to demand independence from Georgia, while Russia signals its support.
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TBILISI, Georgia, Jan. 6 -- Supporters of Georgia's former president Mikheil Saakashvili began celebrating late Saturday as preliminary exit polls indicated he would narrowly avoid a runoff in this former Soviet republic's presidential election.
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After more than a week of delays, Sergei Bagapsh is declared the winner in Abkhazia's presidential elections.
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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.
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Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili offers a broad autonomy to the breakaway republic of South Ossetia.
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Abkhazia's outgoing president on Tuesday denounced the election of his successor, warning that it could cost the breakaway republic its self-declared independence from Georgia.
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Tens of thousands of opposition supporters rallied Sunday in the Georgian capital to protest what they denounced as massive vote fraud that helped U.S.-allied Mikhail Saakashvili win a second presidential term.
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The breakaway Abkhazia region of Georgia holds its first ever multi-candidate elections for president.
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Supporters of a candidate in a disputed  presidential election in the separatist Georgian region of  Abkhazia stormed government buildings on Friday, Russia's  Interfax news agency reported.
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Georgian forces seized strategic heights from separatist fighters in rebel South Ossetia Thursday and President Mikhail Saakashvili promised more such victories to fulfill a pledge to reunite his fractious country.
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Voters in Slovenia, Serbia and Georgia&#39;s breakaway republic of Abkhazia cast ballots Sunday in elections for lawmakers and government leaders.
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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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Supporters cheer Botswana's President Festus Mogae in the last day of campaigning before Saturday's parliamentary polls.
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Hundreds of locals rallied in the town of Stavropol in southern Russia on Tuesday, demanding the eviction of ethnic Chechens, witnesses and media said, reviving memories of racial riots in other parts of the country.
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MOSCOW -- Tens of thousands of people answered a government call and rallied outside the Kremlin yesterday in a show of solidarity against terrorism, nearly a week after militants seized a school in southern Russia in a standoff that claimed more than 350 lives, many of them children.
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At least 50,000 supporters of the outgoing Bangladesh government rallied in a show of strength to counter opposition threats to boycott next month's national elections.
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Tens of thousands of people answered a government call and rallied outside the Kremlin on Tuesday in a show of solidarity against terrorism, nearly a week after militants seized a school in southern Russia in a standoff that claimed more than 350 lives, many of them children.