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Analyses | | Wojciech Górecki

The game of Georgias EU candidate status

… an interim oral report to the member states on Georgia’s progress towards being granted EU candidate … no progress had been made (see the Annex). A day later, Georgia’s president Salome Zurabishvili pardoned Nika … with EU expectations involving the depolarisation of Georgian politics, met with harsh criticism from the …
Analyses | | Wojciech Górecki

Between Brussels and Moscow Georgia is moving closer to Russia

… On 19 May air links between Georgia and Russia resumed after a four-year break. This … met with criticism from the West and public protests in Georgia. The resumption of direct air communication is … US policy. However, according to declarations by the Georgian government, the country’s primary objective …
Analyses | | Wojciech Górecki

Georgia a strong political crisis over legislative changes

… as ‘foreign agents’. A joint statement by the ruling Georgian Dream party and the People’s Power movement … been strongly criticised as undemocratic by both the Georgian opposition and officials from the EU and the … People’s Power, who are former members of the ruling Georgian Dream party. They were presumably supposed to …
Analyses | | Wojciech Górecki

Saakashvili and The Georgian Opposition The State of Play

… health had rapidly deteriorated, and the former Georgian president had been taken to an intensive care … proves that Saakashvili – who retired from active Georgian politics a decade ago and has been in prison … world. If he dies, this would lead to mass protests in Georgia whose outcome would be difficult to predict. …
Analyses | | Wojciech Górecki

Competing peace formats Russia and the EUs attitudes towards the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict

… Armenia and Azerbaijan by stepping up its influence in Georgia. The talks and the divergent views Contacts … this sentiment and has been seeking rapprochement with Georgia in order to ‘make up’ for its declining … decree of 10 May which lifted visa requirements for Georgian citizens travelling to Russia and lifting the …
OSW Commentary | | Wojciech Górecki, Krzysztof Strachota

The undeclared war A new phase of the Azerbaijani-Armenian conflict

… Azerbaijan to reduce its dependence on transit through Georgia, and on the other, to gain control of transit … dominance in the region while marginalising both Georgia and Armenia. ...while Armenia is playing deep … and containment other than Armenia. In the region, Georgia could play such a role for Russia; the most …
Analyses | | Wojciech Górecki

Another war or a deal A new phase in the Azerbaijani-Armenian conflict

… duopoly, which already has considerable influence in Georgia (see ‘ The (pan-)Turkic Caucasus. The …
Analyses | | OSW team

Solidarity Ring a step towards increasing Azerbaijani gas supplies to Central Europe

… of Azerbaijan, as well as the prime ministers of Georgia, Hungary and Romania signed a strategic …