After the Revolution

Recently headlines are starting to give me deja vu. 
Last week the electoral commission of Armenia declared Serzh Sarkisian, until then the country’s prime minister, winner of Armenia’s presidential election.
According to the count, Sarkisian won a couple of points over 50 percent of the vote, just enough to avoid a run-off. But many say the voting process was seriously flawed.
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Mikheil Saakashvili was sworn in as president of Georgia on Jan. 20 after an election internationally recognized as flawed but generally accepted as valid.
The Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) published a review of the electoral process specifying a number of problems.

The voter turn-out was much […]

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