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Analyses | | Krzysztof Strachota

Pre-election tensions in Georgia

… On 18 September the Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs revealed cases of … scheduled for 1 October. The unsettling situation in Georgian prisons has for years been the subject of … Department). After the scandal was made public, the Georgian government announced a thorough reform of the …
Analyses | | Wojciech Górecki

Between Brussels and Moscow Georgia is moving closer to Russia

… On 19 May air links between Georgia and Russia resumed after a four-year break. This … met with criticism from the West and public protests in Georgia. The resumption of direct air communication is … US policy. However, according to declarations by the Georgian government, the country’s primary objective …
Analyses | | Wojciech Górecki

Salome Zurabishvili Georgias new president

The second round of presidential elections in Georgia on 28 November was won by Salome Zurabishvili, who ran as an independent candidate but was supported by the ruling Georgian Dream party. According to unofficial results provided by the…
Analyses | | Maciej Falkowski

Georgia political crisis and Russian threats

… former president Mikheil Saakashvili, criticised the Georgian Dream government for failing to take decisive … including a veiled criticism of the informal leader of Georgian Dream, the former prime minister Bidzina … to resign from the government) may adversely affect Georgia’s pro-Western foreign policy. The deepening …
Analyses | | Wojciech Górecki

Georgia threat of destabilisation after local elections

… the second round of local elections was held in Georgia. The candidates of the ruling Georgian Dream – Democratic Georgia (GD) party won the mayoral elections in 19 of …
Analyses | | Krzysztof Strachota

The opposition has won the elections in Georgia

… 1 October saw parliamentary elections in Georgia, which were unexpectedly won by the opposition Georgian Dream (GD) coalition, centred around Bidzina … off smoothly. And so despite widespread fears, both Georgia and the ruling elite centred around President …
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Georgia is tightening its relations with Iran

… Iran’s foreign minister Manushehr Mottaki visited Georgia,. The most important result of the visit was the … relations with Iran, which hitherto had not been one of Georgia’s principal trade partners (US$41m in the first … Tbilisi of its efforts to diversify its foreign policy. Georgian-Iranian relations have been frozen since …
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Georgia increases its contingent in Afghanistan

… On 9 June in Brussels, Georgia’s defence minister Bacho Akhalaia confirmed his … US and NATO. The decision to significantly increase the Georgian contingent was announced after a meeting … Petraeus, the decision was repeated and clarified. Georgia, whose armed forces number 37,000 soldiers, …
Analyses | | Marek Matusiak

Georgia 100 days of the new government

… half of February marked one hundred days since the Georgian Dream (GD) government coalition, under Bidzina … policies.  Above all, however, the situation in Georgia still bears the characteristics of a … a quick and general improvement in living conditions. Georgia’s future will become clear over the next few …
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Georgia tensions between the state and the Church

… On 6 July in Georgia a regulation which strengthens the legal status of faith-based groups other than the Georgian Orthodox Church (GOC) came into force. The new … that the position of the Apostolic Armenian Church in Georgia will be strengthened. The majority of Armenians …