The head of an independent election monitoring group arrested in Azerbaijan, Russian activists picket parliament ahead of a vote on prisoner amnesty, the funeral of an iconic Georgian writer, and stories from Belarus, Macedonia, Moldova, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan in this roundup of news from the countries covered by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
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