Georgian President Giorgi Margvelashvili has pardoned 168 prisoners.
A gunman has been killed outside a NATO military training center near the Georgian capital, Tbilisi.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned of weak prospects for economic growth in Central Asia and the Caucasus region and has called for reforms to help post-Soviet economies.
An unidentified man has blown himself up at the headquarters of state-owned television in Georgia's breakaway region of Abkhazia.
During a visit to Tbilisi, Kyrgyz President Almazbek Atambaev has said his country supports Georgia's territorial integrity.
The United National Movement is reportedly divided over whether its candidates should participate in the second round and thus tacitly bestow legitimacy on a vote some of its members claim was rigged. (The views expressed in this blog item do not necessarily reflect the views of RFE/RL.)
A new report using UN statistics estimates there are about 700 million girls around the world who were forced to get married before the age of 18.
International observers monitoring Georgia's parliamentary elections say the October 8 vote was competitive, well-administered, and fundamental freedoms were generally respected but there were also "unacceptable isolated incidents of violence."
Georgia’s governing party has won parliamentary elections according to near-complete results released amid accusations of vote rigging from the opposition.
Dozens of men clashed with Georgian police on October 8 when they tried to storm a polling station in the village of Kizilajlo, some 40 kilometers southwest of Tbilisi.
The Georgian Dream party has declared victory in parliamentary elections shortly after polls closed on October 8 in the former Soviet republic.
Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili was among those who cast their votes early in the Caucasus country's parliamentary elections on October 8. Besides regular polling stations, mobile ballot teams were also sent out to the homes of elderly voters with limited mobility.
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