The election was called after president Aslan Bzhania resigned in November 2024 due to protests against an agreement allowing wealthy Russians to purchase property in Abkhazia. He was replaced on an acting basis by his […]
Presidential elections were held in Belarus on 26 January 2025. The president is directly elected to serve a five-year term. Incumbent president Alexander Lukashenko had won every presidential election since 1994, with all but the […]
Presidential elections were held in Russia from 15 to 17 March 2024. It was the eighth presidential election in the country. Incumbent president Vladimir Putin claimed victory with 87% of the vote, the highest percentage […]
Legislative elections will be held in Russia on 19 September 2021. At stake are 450 seats in the State Duma of the 8th convocation, the lower house of the Federal Assembly. Going into the elections, […]
Several opposition parties called on the government to postpone the election due to the COVID-19 pandemic prior to the campaign period in September. During the elections, several parties were accused of buying votes. Several journalists […]
Presidential elections will held in Belarus on 30 August 2020. Long-term president Alexander Lukashenko has announced he will run for a sixth term in office, having won every presidential election since independence in 1991. Sources and further reading: Belarus and Russia […]
Presidential elections were held in Georgia on 28 October 2018, the seventh presidential elections since the country’s restoration of independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. The last elections in October 2013 resulted in a victory for Giorgi Margvelashvili, a candidate of the Georgian Dream coalition. Following […]
Presidential elections were held in Georgia on 28 October 2018, the seventh presidential elections since the country’s restoration of independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. The last elections in October 2013 resulted in a victory for Giorgi Margvelashvili, a candidate of the Georgian Dream coalition. Following […]
‘I do not think the Russian general staff is so naive as to think this is a definite long term alliance. There will naturally be mutual wariness’. (Alexander Gabuev, chair of the Rusia in the […]
Yesterday, US President Donald Trump met with Russian premier Vladimir Putin in Helsinki, Finland. The summit has been the subject of intense speculation and came ‘on the heels of a European trip for Trump that […]
