Georgia is at the center of a political and geopolitical confrontation, with allegations of electoral fraud fueled by suspicions of pro-Russian interference. While President Salome Zurabishvili denounces vote rigging, imprisoned pro-European former President Mikheil Saakashvili calls for mobilization to protect the country’s European future. This crisis raises crucial questions for …
Read More »As Georgians Protest Election Results, What Next?
Georgian Dream’s message that the parliamentary elections were a chance for Georgians to choose between war and peace clearly proved more convincing than the opposition’s narrative of a choice between Russia and the EU. The parliamentary elections that took place in Georgia on Sunday were billed as the most important …
Read More »Duda Claimed That Georgia’s Pro-Western President Has No Evidence Of Russian Meddling
Polish President Andrzej Duda can’t be smeared as a “Russian agent” by any stretch of the imagination or suspected of even being remotely sympathetic to that country after all that he’s done to help Ukraine fight against it since 2022. French-born President of Georgia Salome Zourabichvili, who also used to …
Read More »Possible Russian Gains in Georgia and Moldova
The Kremlin continues to pursue its longstanding hybrid warfare efforts to regain effective control of the territories of the former Soviet Union even as it seeks to gain control of Ukraine through military force. The full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine is, in fact, supporting Russian hybrid warfare efforts in former …
Read More »L’Occident aurait proposé à l’ex-Premier ministre géorgien de déclencher une guerre contre la Russie
Selon Bidzina Ivanishvili, président du parti «Rêve géorgien», un haut fonctionnaire occidental aurait proposé à Irakli Garibashvili, ex-Premier ministre géorgien, de lancer une guerre contre la Russie, prévoyant quelques jours de combats suivis d’une guérilla. Cet aveu a été fait lors d’une interview accordée à la chaîne géorgienne Imedi.
Read More »Losing Georgia to Putin
The West sits idly by as the ruling party pushes the republic closer to Russia. Georgian Dream, the ruling party of the Republic of Georgia, is trying, unashamedly, to turn the country into a one-party state. With national elections on October 26, the party, which is controlled and financed by …
Read More »Yerevan and Baku at a crossroads as Russia flexes its muscles
Though there had been hopes that some kind of agreement between Armenia and Azerbaijan could be initialled or signed by November this year, the situation looks increasingly uncertain as Russia once again enters the fray Four years after the start of the 44-day-war between Armenia and Azerbaijan and a year …
Read More »Who’s Faking Who? Armenia Claims Russia Was Behind Coup Attempt, But Moscow Cries ‘Fake’ News
Weeks after the Armenian government accused Russia of fomenting a rebellion, authorities in Yerevan have yet to present substantiating evidence. Citing the ongoing investigation, Armenian officials have not provided updates on the alleged coup plot beyond the broad, initial accusation made on September 18. At that time, representatives of Armenia’s …
Read More »The EU and the South Caucasus: Geoeconomics at Play
Security concerns are reshaping the economic and foreign policy trajectories of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia. As these nations navigate complex choices about their future paths, the EU should recognize the geostrategic importance of the South Caucasus and strengthen its ties with the region. Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has catalyzed …
Read More »Ukraine’s Disastrous Policy Towards Donbass Taught Georgia The Importance Of Reconciliation
Whereas Ukraine never intended to implement the Minsk Accords and was preparing for an invasion this entire time, the dual deceptions of which have ended disastrously for it as is known, Georgian Dream wants Russia to help create a framework for bringing Georgia, Abkhazia, and South Ossetia back together. Russian …
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