Leaders of both opposing forces in Georgia claimed victory shortly after polls closed, setting the stage for a tense political standoff in one of the few democracies in the former Soviet space.

President Mikhail Saakashvili, facing the most serious challenge of his eight-year presidency, conceded in a brief, subdued address on television that the opposition coalition Georgian Dream seems to have won the most votes.

But, he claimed that his own United National Movement, ha

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