Tbilisi residents divided over future as Georgia votes

Tbilisi: Voters in the Georgian capital Tbilisi expressed diverging views on Saturday on whether their country should move closer to Europe or improve...

Tbilisi: Voters in the Georgian capital Tbilisi expressed diverging views on Saturday on whether their country should move closer to Europe or improve ties with Moscow.

"I want to live in Europe, not in Russia," said 18-year-old voter Alexandre Guldani.

"These elections are very important for me, especially given our country's current state of affairs," he said.

The opposition has cast the ballot as a make-or-break battle between joining the European Union and falling back into Moscow's orbit.

But the ruling party rejects this, accusing the opposition of risking confrontation with a country that waged war against Georgia in 2008 and dominated it for two centuries.