Vladímir Putin acaba de sufrir un nuevo revés este domingo en las elecciones legislativas celebradas en Armenia, país situado en la antigua área de influencia soviética, donde por tercera vez ha obtenido la mayoría de gobierno el actual primer ministro en funciones y candidato europeísta Nikol Pashinián, frente al multimillonario ruso-armenio Samvel Karapetyan, de simpatías putinistas. Retrocede respecto a anteriores elecciones el voto a Contrato Civil, el partido que ha gestionado la derrota militar en la última guerra con Azerbaiyán y la dolorosa pérdida de Nagorno Karabaj, el histórico enclave de mayoría armenia hasta 2023, cuya población fue expulsada al finalizar la contienda.

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Dejada atrás la pequeña aldea georgiana de Odzisi, echando un vistazo hacia el otro lado del valle se vislumbra con claridad un recinto fortificado: son instalaciones del FSB, el servicio secreto ruso, cuyos agentes se encargan de las tareas de vigilancia de la frontera artificial impuesta tras la intervención armada rusa de 2008 y gracias a la cual Moscú controla el territorio georgiano de Osetia del Sur.

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The jury box is one of the few places in modern American life where citizens are asked to do something genuinely difficult together.

The jury box is one of the few places in modern American life where citizens are asked to do something genuinely difficult together.

Rick Jackson, a billionaire, wants to be Georgia’s next governor. But the I.R.S. has questioned how his low-budget movies turned into tax windfalls.

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The Republican congresswoman from South Carolina, who made enemies on both sides of the political aisle, is just one of several flashy lawmakers to be leaving Capitol Hill.

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President Trump appointed Bill Pulte, with no intelligence or national security experience, as the interim director of national intelligence to prove the 2020 presidential election was stolen.

President Trump appointed Bill Pulte, with no intelligence or national security experience, as the interim director of national intelligence to prove the 2020 presidential election was stolen.

The US House of Representatives has passed legislation requiring the administration to produce a detailed assessment of Russian and Chinese intelligence activities in Georgia

The Georgia senator is excoriating Trump and his systemic corruption in a way that transcends the Democratic Party’s progressive-moderate divide.

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