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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
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Nils Adler

A nation torn between Russia, the West: Your simple guide to Georgia’s vote

Supporters of the ruling Georgian Dream party attend its final campaign rally in Tbilisi on October 23, 2024, before October 26 parliamentary elections [Giorgi Arjevanidze/AFP]

Georgians will vote in parliamentary elections on Saturday that look set to define whether the mountainous nation that straddles Eastern Europe and West Asia will pivot towards Moscow or Brussels.

The geopolitical bifurcation of the country’s politics has been gradually building for years but came to the fore in April, when wide-scale protests broke out.

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