This page contains a timeline of the five months ahead the Georgian parliamentary elections of 26 October 2024, from 1 … Continue reading Timeline ahead of the Georgian parliamentary elections of 2024
Over the course of 2022 and 2023 the bromance between Georgian prime minister Irakli Garibashvili and his Hungarian counterpart Viktor … Continue reading We need to talk about Budapest and Tbilisi
In February 2023 the Peoples Power faction of the Georgian Parliament launched the draft law “On Transparency of Foreign Funding”, … Continue reading Georgia back to the USSR
6 February 2023 via No Candidacy: EU’s Fatal Error? – Civil.ge In my latest at Civil Georgia I argue the … Continue reading No Candidacy: EU’s Fatal Error? – Civil.ge
In a fast paced development, the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh War between Azerbaijan and Armenia has triggered talk of reopening raillinks in the South Caucasus that have long been closed. Many of these links have an origin that go back to the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union. Continue reading Reviving old rail connections in the South Caucasus
19 December 2020 via Georgian Democracy at Crossroads – Civil.ge The Georgian Dream team should make clear on which side … Continue reading Georgian Democracy at Crossroads – Civil.ge
“From now on, the Georgian Nation is accepted by the great nations, as equal – among equals”. Those were the … Continue reading Georgia’s Phantom Treaty — Civil.ge
On December 11 2019 the Free Russia Foundation organized a mini symposium in The Hague on the return of Russia into the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. It focused on “the balance between the rights and obligations” of being part of the Council of Europe. Here is my contribution to the panel discussion Continue reading Russia’s return to Council of Europe: compliance in a rules based order
Russian President Vladimir Putin gave a history lecture in Yekaterinburg on July 9, 2019 on the status of Abkhazia and … Continue reading Putin: Throwing sand of historic deceit — Civil.ge
The Dutch government has decided to request the European Commission to suspend visa-free movement for Albanians, who enjoyed this since 2010. Can this decision of the Dutch government influence Georgia’s visa free travel to the Schengen Zone and the challenges it faces? Continue reading What could European suspension of visa-free travel for Albania mean for Georgia?
This summer it has been 10 years ago the world was caught by surprise when Russian and Georgian military forces started a war over a small Georgian separatist region that not many had heard of: South Ossetia. While it took many by surprise, the war was in the making for quite some time. A look into the prelude of the war, part three, rolling into war. Continue reading Russia – Georgia War 2008: Rolling into war
This summer it has been 10 years ago the world was caught by surprise when Russian and Georgian military forces started a war over a small Georgian separatist region that not many had heard of: South Ossetia. While it took many by surprise, the war was in the making for quite some time. A look into the prelude of the war, part two. Continue reading Russia – Georgia War 2008: The Prelude #2
