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China's Georgian Gamble March 20, 2025

As Georgia pivots away from the West and slides into dictatorship, China emerges as its key strategic partner. While Washington and Brussels struggle to find transatlantic unity and craft a unified approach to Russia and Ukraine, Beijing methodically...

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Russian Influence Operations in Georgia March 15, 2025

Russia’s influence operations in Georgia represent one of the Black Sea region’s most comprehensive hybrid warfare campaigns. The Kremlin has employed military intervention and territorial occupation, economic embargos, energy leverages, political co...

Broken Promises and Their Consequences March 04, 2025

More than three decades after the Cold War ended, the United States continues to treat Russia as an existential enemy rather than a potential partner. This hostility, deeply embedded in Washington’s foreign policy establishment, is not just ideologic...

Democracy in Eastern Europe Faces Another Crisis February 05, 2025

For months, thousands of protesters have marched through Tbilisi, Georgia, confronting masked police who have beaten and arrested hundreds. The demonstrations took off in November, when the ruling party halted talks to join the European Union. Georgi...

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Safer, Stronger and More Prosperous February 04, 2025

In his first official message to the Department of State’s (DoS) workforce, Secretary of State Marco Rubio made it clear that all the employees will focus on three questions when assessing U.S. foreign policy decisions - How does the action proposed ...

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The Georgian Opposition in 2025 January 27, 2025

For millions of Georgians, January 2025 has started much like how 2024 ended. For several months, the Georgian opposition and Georgian citizens have protested the outcome of the stolen 2024 parliamentary elections. They demanded a new election take p...

Trump Should Remove U.S. Troops From Syria January 20, 2025

The fall of the brutal Assad regime marks a critical opportunity for the United States to remove itself entirely from Syria, avoiding entanglement in further war. American troops have been in Syria for the past decade with the primary objective of de...

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Ukraine Can Join NATO — If Allies Are Willing To Be Bold January 16, 2025

Right now, Russia knows all it needs to do to prevent a country from joining is to invade and partially occupy it — and that needs to change. ...

Georgia Faces Becoming a Pariah State to West January 13, 2025

The Georgian parliament inaugurated a new president, Mikheil Kavelashvili, on December 29 despite continuing protests calling for repeat parliamentary elections and the continuation of EU rapprochement....

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Georgia’s Authoritarian Drift December 27, 2024

On a cold mid-December evening in the center of Tbilisi, I met Nika Khotchdava, a 28-year-old disc jockey and manager at the popular techno club Left Bank. As we spoke, Nika and I were surrounded by a vast crowd of tens of thousands of his compatriot...

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What Is the EU Trying To Do in Georgia? December 17, 2024

Perhaps fully 98 per cent of the population of the EU is unaware that the plan to admit the former Soviet state of Georgia into the union is proceeding, just as the hideous Flanders-style meatgrinder of the Russia-Ukraine war enters its third winter....

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EU Wants a Client, Not Member, State in Georgia December 06, 2024

If you would hear it from the liberal internationalists, the battle for the future of democracy is being fought in Tbilisi. There, protestors are facing off with – in Brussels’ telling – a pro-Kremlin gang eager to drag Georgia into Russia’s orbit. T...

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Georgia Nears its Moment of Truth December 04, 2024

Protesters have been angered by a sudden decision that has put the country’s future on the line. ...

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Georgia Is Being Rocked by Days of Violent Protests December 02, 2024

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How the EU Can Keep Georgia’s European Future Alive December 02, 2024

Barely a month after Georgian Dream declared victory in a contested and undemocratic election, Georgia’s European future hangs by a thread. The EU must act decisively to prevent its slide towards Moscow...

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What’s Next for Georgia? November 01, 2024

These are decisive days in Tbilisi. On October 26th, voters in the country of Georgia went to the polls to cast their ballots in a pivotal parliamentary vote. The results of that contest have sent shockwaves through the country and beyond, and raised...

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An Unfortunate Rush to Judgment in Georgia Elections November 01, 2024

The Western media is indulging the preassembled narrative: that the only way the government could win was by rigging the vote ...

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Why Georgia Is the New Ukraine October 31, 2024

Defeat in Tbilisi would shatter Putin's power...

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Prosecutors in Georgia Say They Are Investigating Allegations of Fraud October 30, 2024

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Orbán Congratulates Georgia on Not ‘Becoming a Second Ukraine’ October 29, 2024

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Georgia Election: Russia Denies Meddling, EU Urges Probe October 29, 2024

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Georgia: Election Was Just as Much About the Economy October 29, 2024

Closer ties to Europe have not helped Tbilisi on the fiscal front, just look at the numbers ...

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Georgian Dream Steals Parliamentary Election October 29, 2024

Democracy currently hangs in the balance in Georgia. On 26 October, millions of Georgians gathered to vote in the parliamentary elections, and the outcome has come into question.The stakes were high going into this election. Prior to the elections, m...

Georgia Says No Plans To Restore Diplomatic Ties With Moscow October 28, 2024

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Georgia: Government Criticizes EU Wokeism Before Crucial Election October 26, 2024

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