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Georgian Election Tests Country's Young Democracy

By Gregory Feifer

Published January 5, 2008 at 5:00 AM PST

This story was published more than 16 years ago.

People in the former Soviet republic of Georgia vote in presidential elections Saturday. President Mikhail Saakashvili is expected to win the contest.

The early elections were called after 70,000 people took to the streets in November 2007, protesting Saakashvili's rule. Those protests were met with a police crackdown.

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Gregory Feifer

Gregory Feifer reports for NPR from Moscow, covering Russia's resurgence under President Vladimir Putin and the country's transition to the post-Putin era. He files from other former Soviet republics and across Russia, where he's observed the effects of the country's vast new oil wealth on an increasingly nationalistic society as well as Moscow's rekindling of a new Cold War-style opposition to the West.

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