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Has Georgia Passed Maturity Test?
Giorgi Lomsadze , Tamada Tales
Stalin's Ethnic Time Bombs
Robert Coalson, Radio Free Europe
Do We Have a Double Standard in Georgia?
Charles Fairbanks, Atlantic
Victor's Justice in Georgia?
Sam Patten & Michael Cecire, TNI
Georgia vs. Chaos
Molly Corso, Foreign Policy
Georgia's political culture may have just hit puberty. After ferocious debating over constitutional amendment meant to cut presidential powers, the measure passed on March 21 in ...(full article)
Eighty-one-year-old Nikolai Khasig was born in Sukhumi in 1932. It was just one year after Soviet dictator Josef Stalin stripped Abkhazia of its short-lived status as a full-fledge...(full article)
The election was heralded as a sudden, successful democratic breakthrough -- something that had been a central objective of U.S. foreign policy since the 1980s. Democracy has chang...(full article)
Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat its mistakes, or so the adage goes. Apply this thinking to recent events in Georgia, and the post-electoral slew...(full article)
Earlier this week, Georgia's Defense Minister Dmitri Shashkin fled the country: "I have taken the decision to leave Georgia with the hope that I will come back and will have the po...(full article)
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What's the Path Forward in Georgia? - Irakly & Giorgi Areshidze, CS Monitor
Georgia’s Oct. 1 Parliament elections were remarkable for two reasons: one, because the opposition Georgian Dream coalition won an overwhelming victory, notwithstanding an extre...
Georgia and Its Regions - Sergey Markedonov, The National Interest
Results of the parliamentary elections in Georgia have become a central theme in the Eurasian media in recent weeks. The success of the opposition bloc Georgian Dream, led by billi...
Next Georgian Leader Emerges as an Enigma - Ellen Barry, NY Times
Bidzina Ivanishvili, set to become Georgia’s prime minister, has such a scant track record in public life that it is difficult to know how he will govern....
Russia's Georgia Policy in Flux - Jamestown Foundation
The victory by the Georgian Dream (GD) opposition coalition in the parliamentary elections on October 1 has surprised outside observers. According to the latest official results af...
Georgia Should Abandon NATO Quest - Doug Bandow, Forbes
Since the so-called Rose Revolution brought Mikheil Saakashvili to power in January 2004, the U.S.-educated lawyer has dominated politics in this country of 4.7 million. But opposi...
Fulfilling the Georgian Dream - German Marshall Fund
Georgia's president Mikhael Saakashvili promptly conceded defeat for his party in the parliamentary elections in Georgia on October 1. The number of parliamentary seats won ...
Georgia: Expect Storms Ahead - Simon Tisdall, The Guardian
Who rules this country matters greatly to Russia and the EU. But the outlook isn't clear after Georgian Dream's election win....
Georgia's Rose Revolution Will Not Wilt - Ian Bremmer, Financial Times
Now that Mikheil Saakashvili has lost the Georgian parliamentary election, some will pronounce the “Rose” revolution dead and buried – and that would miss the point entirely....
Georgia's Democratic Breakthrough - Washington Post
Mr. Saakashvili and his team have given Georgia an extraordinary boost toward joining the Western democracies — modernizing the economy, greatly reducing corruption and attractin...
How 'Pro-Russian' Is Georgia's New Leader? - Mark Adomanis, Forbes
Now it is of course possible that Ivanishvili is, in fact, a Russian agent. If presented with actual evidence of his dastardly pro-Kremlin ways I suppose I would believe it. But my...
Is Georgia's New Leader Crazy? - Shaun Walker, Foreign Policy
Beyond his zebra-rearing, art-collecting eccentricities, we don't know all that much about Bidzina Ivanishvili, whose Georgian Dream coalition won a shock victory in Monday's parli...
How Saakashvili Lost His Election - Simon Shuster, Time
The drive to Prison No. 8 took about an hour from Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, and we spent most of that time talking about colleges in California and traffic jams in Moscow, b...
Why the Stakes Are So High in Georgia - Liz Fuller, The Atlantic
More than any national election since 1990, the Georgian parliamentary election to be held on October 1 is a potential major turning point in the country's history. At one le...
In Georgia, Neither Side Plays by Rules - Jackson Diehl, Washington Post
Something extraordinary is happening here Monday, in a region where autocracy is the norm: a genuinely competitive national election. What remains to be seen is whether it will p...
Georgia: Petals Drop Off the Rose Revolution - The Guardian
Mikheil Saakashvili's Georgia no longer seems to espouse the values that endeared it to Washington and Brussels....
Beware of Russia's Hidden Hand - Janusz Bugajski, CS Monitor
A top priority of Russian President Vladimir Putin is the reintegration of former Soviet republics – based on tighter economic links and culminating in a political and securi...
Georgia's Battle: Dictators vs. Dreamers - Walter Mayr, Der Spiegel
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Georgia's Fragile Democracy - New York Times
No leader of the former Soviet republics has been more pro-Western than President Mikheil Saakashvili of Georgia. He moves easily in Washington and dreams of bringing his country...
Could Georgia Be 2012's October Surprise? - Lincoln Mitchell, RCW
As the U.S. presidential campaign enters its final two months, President Barack Obama finds himself with a narrow lead, hoping that his opponent, Republican candidate Mitt Romney, ...
Election Intrigue in Georgia - Sergey Markedonov, The National Interest
Georgia’s parliamentary elections will take place on October 1. The heated electoral campaign has been underway for some months now, and its final results look unpredictable. The...
A Crucial Election Looms in Georgia - Carnegie Endowment
Georgia’s parliamentary election on October 1 will be its most important since the disputed polls of 2003 which led to the Rose Revolution and the subsequent election of Mikh...
Violence Flares on Georgian-Russian Border - Thomas de Waal, TNI
In Georgia, much of the media has been abuzz with conspiracy theories. Some commentators have speculated that this was a deliberate attempt by the Russian authorities to provoke a ...
End Russia's Occupation of Georgia - Grigol Vashadze, European Voice
In August 2008, thousands of Russian troops and armour rolled into Georgia, while the Russian air force pounded Georgia's military, its infrastructure and civilian targets. It was ...
Georgia's Modernizing Mission - Fyodor Lukyanov, Russia in Global Affairs
Four years ago Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili tried to conquer South Ossetia in a bid to restore the territorial integrity of his country by force. The ensuing military rou...
When the West Saved Tbilisi - Michael J. Totten, National Review
Senator John McCain may have overstated things a bit when, shortly after the war started, he said, “We are all Georgians now.” But apparently even rank-and-file Russi...
Putin Eyes Georgia Gambit - Denis MacShane, Democracy Digest
he small Black Sea and Caucasus state has always been a bother for Russia. With its 3,000 years of history and one of the oldest languages in the world, the heady mix of ski-able m...
What U.S. Wants in Caucasus - Sergey Markedonov, The National Interest
Clinton’s visit has raised some acute questions. The State Department stated that the primary goal of her trip was to discuss issues “of regional security, democracy, economic ...
Calming the Roiling Caucasus - Corboy, Courtney & Yalowitz, NY Times
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's visit to Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia this week is timely. The Caucasus holds risks of confrontation that could affect American and Europ...
Mrs. Clinton Goes to Georgia - Thomas de Waal, The National Interest
The Obama administration has worked hard to make the relationship with Georgia less personalized and more professional and institutionalized. Saakashvili has received less attent...
When Organized Crime Takes Office - Moises Naim, Foreign Affairs
The global economic crisis has been a boon for transnational criminals. Thanks to the weak economy, cash-rich criminal organizations can acquire financially distressed but potent...
Grading Medvedev's Foreign Policy - Int'l Institute for Strategic Studies
The Duma's confirmation of Dmitry Medvedev as prime minister on 8 May, a day after Vladimir Putin's inauguration as president, marked the completion of their long-anticipated role ...
The Realists in Tehran - Sergey Markedonov, The National Interest
Conceptions of ideolgical ayatollahs aside, the Iranians have proven they can play a pragmatic geopolitical game in the Caucasus....
Caucasuses View Putin Election as Deja Vu - Giorgi Lomsadze, EurasiaNet
So much for the Russian Spring: 'skewed' campaigning, an alleged drop of Botox and a reported bit of voting magic, and Vladimir Putin is back as Kremlin boss. Putin owes much of hi...
Will Russia Lose Georgia? - Fyodor Lukyanov, Russia in Global Affairs
Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili finally got what he couldn’t get for several years: an official visit to the White House. President Obama has avoided his Georgian colleagu...
Will Georgia's Leader Pull a Putin? - Thomas de Waal, Washington Post
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Why Some Georgians Still Love Stalin - Paul Rimple, Moscow Times
Dec. 18 is a sanctified day at the Josef Stalin museum in Gori. Every year, a diehard group of pensioners bear the freezing weather to commemorate the birthday of Iosif Dzhugashvi...
Russia-Georgia War a Turning Point - F. Lukyanov, Russia in Global Affairs
President Dmitry Medvedev made a remarkable statement during a speech to military officers in southern Russia early this week. Regarding the August 2008 war between Russian and Geo...
Paranoia Epidemic Grips Georgia - Paul Rimple, Moscow Times
There is the Georgia with new roads, buildings and parks and policemen in new cars and uniforms who never take bribes. It’s the Georgia the World Bank has twice named the top re...
Upstart Shakes Up Georgia Politics - Thomas de Waal, National Interest
Georgian politics has been dull and predictable recently. The working assumption was that President Mikheil Saakashvili had successfully weathered the storm of the 2008 war, cemen...
Georgia on Mr. Putin's Mind - Washington Post
ANYONE WHO was wondering whether Vladimir Putin is softening as he prepares to retake the Russian presidency would do well to review the Kremlin boss’s performance ...
Russia, Georgia Duke It Out in Cinemas - Thomas de Waal, National Interest
The Georgian-Russian conflict over South Ossetia occurred only three years ago, but already it is becoming as mythologized as the Trojan War. Mythical retelling is obscuring what ...
Abkhazia's Independence Farce - Andrei Illarianov, Foreign Policy
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Russia, Georgia Still Locked in a Cold War - Dan McLaughlin, Irish Times
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No Heroes in the Russian-Georgian War - Joshua Foust, The Atlantic
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Georgia Has Never Been So Weak - Paul Rimple, Moscow Times
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