RFE/RL CAUCASUS REPORT
1/6/2012 10:06:44 PM
A review of RFE/RL reporting and analysis about the countries of the South Caucasus and Russia's North Caucasus region.For more stories on the Caucasus, please visit and bookmark our Caucasus page . |
 Facebookers Plan Azerbaijan Protest Azerbaijani social-media activists have launched a Facebook campaign called the Great Movement of the People in an attempt to strengthen public supervision of government actions it considers illegal. More  Sarkisian Meets Karabakh Chiefs Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian inspected military facilities in the breakaway Azerbaijani region of Nagorno-Karabakh and met with Karabakh Armenian army commanders during a visit that ended today. More  Abkhazia Moves To Liberalize Media Landscape Over the past two months, the leadership of Georgia's breakaway region of Abkhazia has adopted two separate measures aimed at ensuring greater diversity of broadcast media. More  France 'To Speed Up' Armenia Vote French media reports say France's upper house of parliament will vote this month on a bill to criminalize the denial of an Armenian genocide, at the risk of incurring further sanctions from Turkey. More  Sarkisian Pledges Democratic Poll YEREVAN -- President Serzh Sarkisian has assured Armenians that he does not regard the forthcoming parliamentary elections primarily as a means of clinging to power, RFE/RL's Armenian Service reports. More  Georgian Parliament Ignores Election-Law Recommendations The Georgian parliament has endorsed a new draft Electoral Code that fails either to address criticism by successive international election observers, or to incorporate proposals by the opposition aimed at ensuring a fairer distribution of mandates that might undercut the ruling party's large parliamentary majority. More  Armenia Opposition Wants Voting Reform Armenia's leading opposition forces have urged the government to hold upcoming parliamentary elections solely on a party-list basis in order to make it more difficult to rig votes. More |
