Tag Archives: South Ossetia
Saakashvili, Exit Right: Will Georgia’s New Leadership Tilt Toward Moscow?
Even before Ivanishvili assumed political power, parliament voted to shift many powers from the presidency itself and, in effect, gave Georgia a parliamentary form of government instead of a strong presidential system. More than a few Georgia-watchers speculate that this change was part of a master plan by Saakashvili to call the political shots as prime minister in the manner of Russia’s Putin between presidential stints. Continue reading
Posted in Foreign Policy, Russia & Eurasia
Tagged 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, Abkhazia, Bidzina Ivanishvili, Georgian Dream Party, Giorgi Margvelashvili, Mikhail Saakashvili, NATO, Nino Bujanadze, Rose Revolution 2003, Russia, Russian invasion of Georgia, South Ossetia, United National Movement Party, Vladimir Putin
Cold civil war in Georgia and why it matters
Ever since Bidzina Ivanishvili’s Georgian Dream coalition won the parliamentary elections in October of last year, a kind of cold civil war has been raging in this South Caucasian country.
