07.01.2008
Ballots have yet to be cast in Georgia's special presidential election, but opposition leaders are already girding for post-election protests, complaining that the voting will be rigged to enable Mikheil Saakashvili's re-election. 636
In a scene at times reminiscent of a televised evangelical revival, Mikehil Saakashvili ended his campaign on January 4 in a packed Tbilisi sports arena with an appeal to voters to put aside pessimism about Georgia's troubled past and focus on a "strong Georgia" of the future. 632
Uzbekistan uses natural gas as an instrument of pressure on Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. 616
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