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Analyses | | Wojciech Górecki

Georgia passes the law on agents the internal crisis escalates

… Defying the recent mass street protests, on 14 May the Georgian parliament passed the law entitled ‘On the … including all the MPs of the ruling majority from the Georgian Dream (GD) party and all the MPs of a small … the legislation of the European Union, which Georgia is officially bidding to join; therefore, it has …
Analyses | | Marek Matusiak

Rosneft to invest in Georgia

… shares in the terminal for petroleum products in the Georgian port of Poti (capacity c. 1.9 million tonnes … as well as a network of 140 Gulf service stations in Georgia, among other items. The value of the transaction has not been disclosed. The Georgian government, including the economy and energy …
Analyses | | Wojciech Górecki

Russia and Georgia a resumption of talks with no prospect of a breakthrough

… representatives of the two countries since the Russian-Georgian war in 2008. The two politicians declared that … economic relations, including Russian investments in Georgia and the return of Georgian wines to the Russian market.     Commentary It …
Analyses | | Wojciech Górecki

Georgia the foreign agent law v20 A toughening stance ahead of elections

… of April, in response to a motion tabled by the ruling Georgian Dream party (GD), Georgia’s parliament launched work on a draft law … NATO’s Secretary General and the EU’s ambassador to Georgia) as well as the Georgian opposition and the NGO …
Analyses | | Wojciech Górecki

Georgia tensions over controversial law continue to escalate

… The political conflict in Georgia around the law entitled ‘On the Transparency of … since mid-April, continues to escalate. The ruling Georgian Dream (GD) party is determined to press ahead … in Tbilisi have drawn up to 100,000 participants (Georgia’s population is c. 3.5 million); the largest one …
Analyses | | Iwona Wiśniewska

Russian-Georgian compromise allows Russias accession to WTO

… – announced that the Russian Federation and Georgia had come to a compromise agreement on monitoring … trading goods in the three transport corridors between Georgia and Russia (on the Abkhazian and South Ossetian sections of the Russian-Georgian border). This task will be entrusted to a …
Analyses | | Maciej Falkowski

Russia is absorbing South Ossetia

… the act as undermining the territorial integrity of Georgia.   Commentary • The treaty on alliance and … residents, who have been cut off from the rest of Georgia by a tightly controlled border; it is … whose independence Russia recognised in 2008, ends the Georgian-Ossetian conflict. We should not expect that …
OSW Commentary | | Wojciech Górecki

Abkhazias creeping incorporation The end of the experiment of a separatist democracy

… In the new situation, finding a resolution to the Georgian-Abkhazian conflict seems to be even less likely … current political model was formed after the Abkhazian-Georgian war (1992–1993) and after Tbilisi’s loss of … Moscow. Russia guaranteed Abkhazia ‘protection’ from Georgia and was their ‘window on the world’ (the …
Analyses | | Andrzej Wilk, Piotr Żochowski

Russians and North Koreans pushing Ukrainians out of Kursk Oblast Day 1028 of the war

… have increased exports of these weapons to Armenia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan, from … In the same year, small arms exports from Turkey to Georgia amounted to more than 18,000 units. The text …
OSW Report | | Wojciech Bartuzi, Katarzyna Pełczyńska-Nałęcz, Krzysztof Strachota

Abkhazia South Ossetia Nagorno-Karabakh unfrozen conflicts between Russia and the West

… have remained unsolved for years: the conflicts in Georgia's Abkhazia and South Ossetia, and Azerbaijan's … Armenian separatists in the course of the war). Neither Georgia nor Azerbaijan have had any control over the … growing political and economic involvement in Georgia and Azerbaijan (including support for reforms …