In Georgia’s Samtskhe-Javakheti, war and coronavirus have overshadowed the election 

The election campaign in Georgia’s Samtskhe-Javakheti Region has been practically on hold since late September, with the war in Nagorno-Karabakh and a new outbreak of coronavirus in the region preoccupying the public’s attention. On 27 September, war broke out in Nagorno-Karabakh. From that day on, large-scale election campaigns came to an end in Samtskhe-Javakheti. People in this southern Georgian region, which has a significant ethnic-Armenian population, have been glued to their screens r