Armenia

Akhalkalaki, Samtskhe-Javakheti, Republic of Georgia © Onnik Krikorian / Oneworld Multimedia 2002
RFE/RL reports on trouble brewing in Georgia’s mainly Armenian populated region of Samtskhe-Javakheti. After local elections were held in Armenia’s northern neighbour last week, hundreds of ethnic Armenian Georgian citizens rallied in Akhalkalaki before eventually seizing a local government building.
The group called United […]

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