Georgia's leaders stoke fears of Russian war ahead of pivotal election
Voice of America
A view shows election billboards of the ruling Georgian Dream party, one of which depicts a devastated Ukrainian city contrasted against a peaceful Georgian one, in Tbilisi, Georgia September 27, 2024. FILE - Billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili, leader of the Georgian Dream party greets demonstrators during a rally in support of "Russian law" in Tbilisi, Georgia, on April 29, 2024,
The Republic of Georgia, which was part of the Soviet Union until independence in 1991, is preparing for a crucial election on October 26 in a vote widely seen as a choice between a future aligned with the West or Russia.
Kenya Wildlife Service rangers and capture team release elephants at Aberdare National Park, located in central Kenya, Oct. 14, 2024. Kenya Wildlife Service rangers and capture team load an elephant into a truck at Mwea National Park, east of the capital Nairobi, Kenya, Oct. 14, 2024. Kenya Wildlife Service rangers and capture team take records of an elephant at Mwea National Park, east of the capital Nairobi, Kenya, Oct. 14, 2024. Kenya Wildlife Service rangers and capture team release elephants at Aberdare National Park, located in central Kenya, Oct. 14, 2024.
Chinese Premier Li Qiang arrives at the Noor Khan military airbase near Islamabad, where he is greeted by Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, Oct 14, 2024. (Courtesy: Prime Minister Sharif's office) Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif greets Chinese Premier Li Qiang at the Noor Khan military airbase near Islamabad on Oct 14, 2024. (Courtesy: Prime Minister Sharif's office) FILE - Pakistani laborers walk through the Gwadar, Pakistan, port on Oct. 4, 2017.
FILE - Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk, center, Defense Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz, center left, and Interior Minister Tomasz Siemoniak, visit troops patrolling the border with Belarus, in Dubicze Cerkiewna, eastern Poland, May 29, 2024. FILE - Migrants stand behind the metal barrier border that Poland has erected along the border with Belarus, in Bialowieza Forest, May 29, 2024.
FILE - Packaging for a counterfeit bottle of perfume that was recovered after Dawn Sturgess was poisoned by the Soviet-era Novichok nerve agent is seen in an image handed out by the Metropolitan Police in London, Britain, Sept. 5, 2018. FILE - This photo provided by the London Metropolitan Police shows Dawn Sturgess, poisoned in 2018 by a Soviet-era nerve agent.