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Analyses | | Maciej Falkowski, Krzysztof Strachota

Georgia pre-electoral uncertainty

… On 8 October parliamentary elections will be held in Georgia. The main rivals are Georgian Dream (GD), which has been governing since … (in the single-mandate seats). A new element in the Georgian context is the appearance of slogans favouring …
Point of View | | Maciej Falkowski

Georgian drift The crisis of Georgias way westwards

… For several years Georgia has been experiencing processes which may be … status (including rising crime levels). The Georgian political system has found itself in a serious … A country that had been firmly navigating westwards, Georgia has now started drifting and slipping into …
Analyses | | Maciej Falkowski

The parliamentary election in Georgia Georgian Dream remains in power

… The first round of parliamentary elections took place in Georgia on 8 October. A mixed, proportional-and-majority election system applies in Georgia (77 seats are distributed according to … in single-member constituencies). The governing party, Georgian Dream, won in the proportional system, with a …
Analyses | | Maciej Falkowski, Rafał Sadowski

EU-Georgia delay in the visa liberalisation process

… to defer the abolition of short-term Schengen visas to Georgia. This decision is primarily connected with the … Ukraine. Germany has made its consent in the case of Georgia and Ukraine conditional on the European Union … abolishing visas may also apply to Ukraine, which like Georgia has met all the EU’s conditions. Postponing the …
Analyses | | Maciej Falkowski

The Georgian Dream takes total control

… The runoff of the parliamentary election in Georgia took place on 30 October. Mainly representatives of the Georgian Dream and the opposition United National … competed in the fifty single-seat constituencies. The Georgian Dream, a party controlled by the oligarch …

In the clutches of the Kremlin Azerbaijans security policy

… of hydrocarbon transport routes running through Georgia and Turkey, bypassing Russia. The effects of … West is weak (the first signal of this was the war in Georgia in 2008) and that Ankara’s policy is … of view, was Mikheil Saakashvili’s loss of power in Georgia in 2012). The change in the socio-political …
Analyses | | Wojciech Górecki

Nagorno-Karabakh what is Russia up to

… This would give Russia – regardless of what attitude Georgia might take – domination of the South Caucasus, … one took place in the autumn of 2008, after the Russian-Georgian war, which demonstrated that Russia is ready to …