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Moscow has welcomed the decision of the new leadership of South Ossetia to suspend a planned referendum on joining Russia, though the two sides promised to carry out some other unspecified “integration.”
The leaders of arch-foes Armenia and Azerbaijan agreed in a Brussels meeting Sunday [o5/22] to “advance discussions” on a peace treaty over a troubled region that saw a war break out in 2020, the European Council’s president said.
Anatoly Bibilov, the de facto incumbent leader of Georgia's breakaway region of South Ossetia, was defeated by the leader of the Nykhas party, Alan Gagloyev, in a May 8 presidential runoff election.
The leader of Georgia's Moscow-backed separatist region of South Ossetia, Anatoly Bibilov, says the de facto independent territory is looking to hold a referendum on joining Russia, a move Tbilisi called "unacceptable."
The Ukraine invasion has led Georgia to fast-track its EU membership application, but Tbilisi now urgently needs to tackle Russian disinformation tactics.
Georgia will ‘immediately’ apply for fast-track EU membership, the country’s ruling party said Wednesday (2 March), a day after the European Parliament backed war-torn Ukraine’s bid to apply for fast-track EU membership.
Tens of thousands rallied on Monday in Georgia seeking the release of jailed opposition leader and former president Mikheil Saakashvili, who has been on hunger strike for several weeks, as Ukraine slammed his transfer to a prison hospital.
Candidates of the Georgian Dream party won 19 of the 20 municipal elections in runoff votes on Saturday, including the mayoral offices in the country's five largest cities: Tbilisi, Kutaisi, Rustavi, Batumi and Poti. … An election observer mission of the OSCE said the "voting and counting were overall assessed positively despite some procedural issues, particularly during counting."
Dozens of European lawmakers and other current and former politicians -- including former presidents of Latvia and Ukraine -- have called for the release of jailed Georgian ex-President Mikheil Saakashvili, whose detention earlier this month deepened a protracted political crisis in the South Caucasus country.
Thousands of people have gathered in the center of the Georgian capital demanding the release of jailed former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, whose detention earlier this month deepened a protracted political crisis in the South Caucasus country.