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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

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 | | 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 | | 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 | | 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 …
Analyses | | Wojciech Górecki

Georgia a strong political crisis over legislative changes

… as ‘foreign agents’. A joint statement by the ruling Georgian Dream party and the People’s Power movement … been strongly criticised as undemocratic by both the Georgian opposition and officials from the EU and the … People’s Power, who are former members of the ruling Georgian Dream party. They were presumably supposed to …
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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 | | Wojciech Górecki

Georgia opposition politicians pardoned ahead of the election

… On 15 May, the president of Georgia, Salome Zourabichvili, pardoned two opposition … and is currently one of the leaders of European Georgia, a party that was formed after the split within … Saakashvili’s United National Movement. In February, Georgia’s Supreme Court sentenced him to three years and …
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 …