6 day agoTurnout 22.22% as of 12 p.m. 776,726 people have already voted, according to CEC - almost three percent increase from previous elections
6 day agoBallot casting at the 69th precinct in Marneuli, our observer was assaulted for recording this
6 day agoPolls opened across Georgia at 8 a.m. as crucial voting kicks off. Nearly 3.5 million voters have until 8 p.m. to cast their ballots, with most using electronic technologies. The vote is widely seen as a referendum between Europe and Russia
1 week ago1 Rosguard serviceman killed, another wounded as result of attack on their truck at Petropavlovskaya village of Grozny district of Chechen Republic. Security services are looking for attackers
Armenia proposed Azerbaijan to provide communication with Nakhichevan with simplified border and customs control procedures — Pashinyan
1 week agoThe Georgian Police are raiding Tbilisi HQ of Concentrix, a California based company and a subsidiary of SYNEX Corporation (NSYE: SNX) with the Concentrixitself being part of the Fortune 500 list. The company employees are told they will be unable to enter the office premises today.
1 week agoThe houses of @EtoBuziashvili and @SGelava, researchers at the Atlantic Council’s @DFRLab, are being searched. The Investigation Service of the Ministry of Finance has entered Eto’s apartment, and devices at Sopo’s home are being seized. The “investigation” is underway under three articles, just two days before Georgia’s parliamentary elections
1 week agoThousands have gathered at Tbilisi's Liberty Square for the "Georgia chooses the European Union" demonstration happening now
President Zurabishvili promised to join participants of “Georgia chooses Europe” rally planned for October 20. She called on Georgians not to be afraid of intimidation and threats, to join the march the next day and to vote on October 26
The West wants to "light a fire" and destabilize the situation between Abkhazia, South Ossetia and Georgia in order to open a second front against Russia, - Russian FM Lavrov said
1 week agoRussia and Iran are ready to facilitate the normalization of Armenian-Turkish relations - Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov
2 week agoPhoto op of the foreign ministers of Iran, Russia, Armenia, Turkey, and Azerbaijan in 3+3 format meeting in Istanbul
2 week ago@EUCouncil reiterates its serious concern regarding the Georgian course of action taken by government, which runs counter to the values and principles upon which the EU is founded. Such a course of action jeopardises Georgian European path, and de facto halts the accession process
The State Security Service of Georgia claims that “groups linked to political circles are planning to spread fabricated and falsified video/audio recordings through AI and other modern technologies in the days leading up to the upcoming parliamentary elections.”
Aliyev called the proposal of the Armenian authorities to sign peace on the basis of the agreed provisions of the peace treaty and leave the unagreed ones for later "far from reality"
2 week agoUNM party members have released footage showing their office in Tbilisi after GD-linked thug groups vandalized. The perpetrators smashed windows and painted the walls of the office in red. "No one is afraid of these raids, violence, threats and shameful facts"
Azerbaijan's Defense Minister "gave specific instructions to maintain combat capability at a high level and to be ready to take preventive measures against all possible provocations of revanchist forces on the conditional border" with Armenia
Azerbaijan's MFA: Pashinyan's remarks show Armenia's "negligence for the obligations it has undertaken." Nov 2020 trilateral statement "clearly states the obligations of Armenia . and how to organize control over transport links."
2 week agoFuel station exploded in Grozny
2 week ago3 policemen killed in an attack on their vehicle in Magas, Ingushetiya. Security services are looking for attackers
In the Moscow region, unknown tried to kill the former deputy chairman of the Ingush government. Sharip Alikhadzhiev, he was shot at least 4 times at his house in the village of Lapino near Odintsovo. He is currently in intensive care
3 week agoHead of Chechnya Kadyrov has announced "vendetta" against Dagestani senator Suleiman Kerimov, MPs Bekhan Barakhoev and Rizve Kurbanov
3 week agoCIS countries leaders summit in Moscow
Putin and Pashinyan began talks in the Kremlin
3 week agoAliyev has arrived in Moscow
Speaker of the Georgian Parliament, Shalva Papuashvili just stated that Georgian Dream will once again initiate the impeachment process for @Zourabichvili_S. According to him, the basis of this decision is President's unauthorized visits abroad
Islamic State Claims Responsibility for Attack in Qusar, Azerbaijan
PM Kobakhidze states that Georgia must sort out its relationship with the Global War Party
The Head of Georgia Anti-Corruption Bureau has just revoked the electoral status of @Transparency_GE and its executive director, @ekagigauri_, following a call from PM Kobakhidze to do so; citing "national interests"
Mayor of Izberbash detained, security forces conducting searches
