Local hero or Russian ally? The billionaire dividing Georgians
For more than four months, Georgians have taken to the streets across the country to accuse Ivanishvili's party of rigging ...
First year of Georgia’s ‘foreign agent’ law shows how autocracies are replicating Russian model − and speeding up the time frame
Take Georgia. The ruling Georgian Dream party has steered the Caucasus nation from a path toward democracy back to autocracy – and it has done so by learning from Russia. In particular, it adopted a ...
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Local hero or Russian ally? The billionaire dividing Georgians
It's a picture postcard settlement where the roads are good, the houses well-maintained and there are plenty of blue and yellow flags ... "Georgia currently is ruled by an oligarch who has a very ...
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First year of Georgia’s ‘foreign agent’ law shows how autocracies are replicating Russian model − and speeding up the time frame
Over the years, this law has reduced Russian civil society’s ability to independently voice and address issues that its population faces. Georgian Dream passed a very similar foreign agent law ...