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Neighbouring Armenia also tense as prime minister defies army officers’ call to resign
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Government-military standoff in Yerevan continues after alleged ‘coup attempt’
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Observers of Georgian politics worry at the country’s authoritarian drift and gradual abandonment of the pluralism which has marked the past 15 years
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