Georgia’s Election Fistfights Raise Questions about Reform
Election season in Georgia can only mean one thing: a slugfest. Four years ago the nation did witness its first peaceful, post-Soviet handover of power by elections, but it has yet to experience an...
View ArticleGeorgia's President and the Dangers of Drinking Too Much Democracy in an...
It’s election time in Georgia and, once again, just like summer swallows, accusations about political pressure have returned. This time, though, they come from the head of state himself, with the...
View ArticleGeorgia’s Election Features Dueling Duet between Billionaire and Opera Singer
A Georgian opera singer did not invite a Georgian billionaire to his birthday party and now they hate each other, fighting for their country in an election campaign that is as much a battle of egos as...
View ArticleGeorgia’s Election Becomes Tom-and-Jerry Show
As Georgia prepares to dive into another stormy parliamentary vote, two men stand on the opposite shores of the bordering Black Sea, shaking their fists at one another and calling each other names....
View ArticleGeorgia’s Main Opposition Party Looks for a Life after Misha
Left in a tizzy by its recent crushing defeat in Georgia’s parliamentary elections, the South Caucasus country’s main opposition party, the United National Movement, is debating getting rid of the...
View ArticleGeorgia: Rustavi2 Claims Temporary Victory in Ownership Fight
The European Court of Human Rights on March 7 extended its freeze on a controversial court decision allowing an ownership change at Georgia’s largest private TV station, Rustavi2, that observers...
View ArticleGeorgia: First Daughter Claims Drug Raid Aimed at President Giorgi...
Georgian President Giorgi Margvelashvili’s daughter, Ana Margvelashvili, has accused the police of fabricating evidence of illegal-drug possession against her friends and family members in possible...
View ArticleGeorgia’s Game of Thrones: Enter the King
This Sunday, just as Georgia was caught up in another national debate about its constitutional future -- is it going to be a parliamentary republic, a presidential republic or a little bit of both? --...
View ArticleGeorgia’s Elections: Painting the Town Blue with Kakha Kaladze
Ex-soccer star Kakha Kaladze has scored his biggest win on Georgia's political field by getting elected as Tbilisi mayor, the main prize in the country's October 21 municipal polls and a potential...
View ArticleSaakashvili Rallies Supporters in Kyiv after Escaping Arrest
After an hours-long standoff with law-enforcement, supporters of Mikheil Saakashvili gathered outside Ukraine's parliament on December 5 in the hundreds to demand the impeachment of Ukrainian President...
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