![](/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/region-caucasus_01.jpg)
Latest Articles about Georgia
![](/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Bidzina_Ivanishvili_and_rally_-_EDM_July_24__2012.jpg)
Ivanishvili’s Georgian Dream: Proprietary Electoral Coalition Takes Shape
Bidzina Ivanishvili, multi-billionaire leader of the Georgian Dream opposition party and coalition, has almost completed the nomination of candidates for the upcoming parliamentary elections in single-mandate electoral districts. Most of these candidates are non-political individuals (veteran cultural figures and sportsmen, some employees of Ivanishvili’s organizations)... MORE
![](/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Bidzina_Ivanishvili_-_EDM_July_16__2012.jpg)
Georgian Dream Opposition Leaders Envisage Post-Election Confrontation
From the outset of his political project (October 2011) to date, Georgian Dream movement’s billionaire leader Bidzina Ivanishvili has expressed total confidence in winning the upcoming parliamentary and presidential elections. Before long, Ivanishvili and his allies were implying that the government could only win through... MORE
![](/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Bidzina_Ivanishvili_-_EDM_July_13__2012.jpg)
Georgia’s Parliamentary Elections: Four Underestimated Challenges and Risks (Part One)
The upcoming parliamentary elections pose a unique set of challenges to Georgia’s evolving democracy, the country’s stability and potentially to Georgian statehood itself. The challenges include: vote purchase leading to full or partial state capture, Russian military pressure timed to the voting, danger of post-election... MORE
![](/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Khizri_Aldamov_-_EDM_June_29__2012.jpg)
Why Was Khizri Aldamov “Returned” to Chechnya?
It came as a complete surprise when Chechen TV, on the evening of June 13, broadcast a meeting between Ramzan Kadyrov and Khizri Aldamov, who was the general representative in Georgia for the separatist Chechen Republic of Ichkeria from 1994-2004 and is now a Georgian... MORE
![](/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Hillary_Clinton_in_Georgia_-_EDM_June_12__2012_01.jpg)
Clinton in Georgia: Political Process or Policy Objectives?
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s visit to Georgia delivered some potentially significant results (see EDM, June 11). These look, however, not nearly as impressive as Clinton’s lavish praise for Georgia’s performance on economic reforms.Two features stand out in Clinton’s praise. First, it credits Georgia’s... MORE
![](/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Hillary_Clinton_in_Georgia__June_2012_-_EDM_June_11__2012.jpg)
Hillary Clinton in Georgia: A Visit with Deliverables
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton paid a visit to Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan and Turkey on June 4-7, almost two years after her first South Caucasus tour in early July 2010. That tour was billed as a “get-acquainted” trip, midway through her tenure. The just-completed... MORE
![](/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Mikheil_Saakashvili__Anders_Fogh_Rasmussen_-_EDM_May_31__2012.jpg)
Georgia: The Ultimate Test of NATO’s Open Door Policy
NATO’s Open Door Policy is as old as the Alliance itself, and remains to date a core principle of the Alliance. Under NATO’s founding treaty, the “Allies may, by unanimous agreement, invite any other European state in a position to further the principles of this... MORE
![](/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Circassians_in_Georgia__May_21_-_EDM_May_30__2012.jpg)
Circassian Activists Show Appreciation for Georgia’s Openness to the North Caucasus
On May 21, over 50 people from Kabardino-Balkaria, Karachaevo-Cherkessia and Adygea chose to commemorate the anniversary of the Russian-Circassian war in the 19th century in Georgia. “In practice the issue of the Russian-Caucasian war’s results should be discussed in Russia, by Russian scholars,” the head... MORE
![](/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Mikheil_Saakashvili__Anders_Fogh_Rasmussen_-_EDM_May_29__2012.jpg)
NATO and Georgia: Beyond the Open Door
NATO’s summit on May 20 in Chicago has brought Georgia slightly closer to the “open door” of membership in the Alliance. The Chicago summit’s declaration reaffirms earlier decisions, committing NATO to positive consideration of Georgia’s membership aspirations. The Chicago document reads: “At the 2008 Bucharest... MORE
![](/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Mikheil_Saakashvili_-_EDM_May_14__2012.jpg)
Normal or Special Standards for Georgia’s Elections?
A unique conjunction of external and internal circumstances suggests that Georgia’s upcoming parliamentary elections will be subjected to more (possibly far more) rigorous scrutiny, compared with elections in any of the former Soviet-ruled countries.International election observers are set to arrive in numbers unprecedented even for... MORE