New Georgian Government Begins to Show Its Dark Side
On April 4, various Georgian news agencies, based on an article by the British newspaper The Guardian, reported that Georgian Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili was... MORE
Ivanishvili and Coalition Partners Threaten to Incriminate Georgia over 2008 Russian Invasion (Part Two)
Georgia’s Prosecutor-General Archil Kbilashvili (formerly a legal counsel to the current Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili), Justice Minister Tea Tsulukiani (who does not have a formal... MORE
Ivanishvili and Coalition Partners Threaten to Incriminate Georgia Over 2008 Russian Invasion (Part One)
On April 10 and 12, Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili amplified the prosecutor-general’s, justice minister’s, and other officials’ recent threats (see EDM, April 1) to investigate... MORE
The Georgian Orthodox Church: Some Aspects of Its Rhetoric and Practice
In trying to access the website of the Georgian Orthodox Church on Sunday, April 7, 2013, one would have ended up reading a message in... MORE
Georgian-Russian Rapprochement Is Not Yielding Any Results for Georgia
On March 12, on his official visit to Moscow, Abkhazian separatist leader Alexander Ankvab met with Russian President Vladimir Putin as well as with the... MORE
Georgian Dream Seizes Local Administrations from Elected UNM Incumbents
Six months into Georgia’s regime-change, “transfer of powers” and “co-habitation,” these processes are still far from “orderly.” The most (or best) that may be said... MORE
Georgia’s New Authorities Threaten to Investigate President Saakashvili and Allies
On March 31, Prosecutor General Archil Kbilashvili threatened to summon Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili for questioning in at least three parallel criminal investigations. One of... MORE
Georgia’s Western Course Reaffirmed in Bipartisan Consensus
Objectively, the Georgian Dream government is a legatee of the Mikheil Saakashvili government’s trademark foreign policy. National interests require the new government to build on... MORE
Georgia and the United States: De-Alignment Through Regime Change? (Part Three)
The Barack Obama administration declared victory for the “democratic process” in Georgia immediately after that country’s October 1, 2012, parliamentary elections. It defined that victory... MORE
Georgia and the United States: De-Alignment Through Regime Change? (Part Two)
The Barack Obama administration publicly called for an “orderly transfer of power” during Georgia’s electoral campaign. President Obama first gave this message, publicly and (still... MORE