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Analyses | | Marek Matusiak

Georgia The presidential election was peaceful and democratic

Giorgi Margvelashvili, the candidate of the ruling Georgian Dream coalition, has won the presidential election, taking 62% of the vote
Analyses | | Marek Matusiak

Georgia Ivanishvili has announced that he is leaving

On 2 September Georgia's Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili confirmed that he intends to leave politics.  Though stepping down, Ivanishvili will de facto retain instruments of influence over both the ruling coalition  and the government,…
Analyses | | Marek Matusiak

Georgia Is conservative-nationalist sentiment growing

On 26 August in a southern village inhabited by both Orthodox and Muslim Georgians, the local authorities dismantled the minaret of the local mosque. The reasons given for this were that its construction was unauthorised. This sparked…
Analyses | | Marek Matusiak

Georgia the opposition is holding its first rally

The United National Movement has become mired in crisis following its electoral defeat bringing to an end almost a decade in power. On 19 April, the UNM led by President Mikheil Saakashvili held its first rally in the centre of Tbilisi…
Analyses | | Marek Matusiak

Georgia The war of 2008 is the subject of a political struggle

On 10 April, Georgia’s Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili signalled the need for an investigation into the outbreak of the war between Georgia and Russia in 2008; the Georgian government of the time’s responsibility; and whether war crimes…
Analyses | | Marek Matusiak

Georgia 100 days of the new government

The first half of February marked one hundred days since the Georgian Dream (GD) government coalition, under Bidzina Ivanishvili as Prime Minister, took office. This period, which has been marked by a no-holds-barred political struggle…
Analyses | | Aleksandra Jarosiewicz, Marek Matusiak

Ivanishvili goes to Azerbaijan – a visit overshadowed by misunderstandings

The new head of the Georgian government, Bidzina Ivanishvili, visited the capital city of Azerbaijan, Baku on 26 December. This was his second foreign visit, after Brussels. What had originally been planned as a courtesy visit to become…
Analyses | | Wojciech Górecki

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

Russia’s deputy foreign minister, Grigory Karasin, and the Special Representative for Relations with Russia, Zurab Abashidze, met for talks on 14 December in Geneva. These have been the first direct official talks between representatives…
Analyses | | Rafał Sadowski

Commissioner Fule wants prospective EU membership to be offered to Eastern European countries

Over the past few months, Stefan Fule, the European Commissioner for Enlargement and European Neighbourhood Policy, has expressed a positive approach in his statements to offering prospective EU membership to the countries located in the…
Analyses | | Marek Matusiak

Ivanishvili takes Georgia

The first meeting of the Parliament of Georgia took place at its new site in Kutaisi on 21 October. A clear majority of seats, 85 out of 150, are held by the Georgian Dream coalition (GD) centred around the billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili…