Twenty years ago, the peaceful Rose Revolution was about to transform Georgia, shake the region and put the Kremlin on alert, but between protests Nini Gogiberidze, a co-founder of the Kmara… Read more »
In Central and Eastern Europe, experience shows that democratization has better chances where linkages to the West are strong and ideological alternatives, such as Russian-style “managed democracy” or authoritarianism, are weak,… Read more »
Moscow’s aim in Ukraine continues to be that of “eliminating anti-Russian elements” and eventually imposing a “Chechen solution” on the country, a former Russian colleague tells Nathalie Tocci, Director of… Read more »
Often considered a beacon of democracy in the post-Soviet space, Georgia faces a major turn toward authoritarianism, note Kornely Kakachia and Bidzina Lebanidze, director and senior analyst, respectively, at the Georgian Institute… Read more »
Georgia’s ruling party said on Thursday it was dropping a bill on “foreign agents” after two nights of violent protests against what opponents said was a Russian-inspired authoritarian shift that… Read more »
China’s economic and political footprint has expanded so quickly that many countries, even those with relatively strong state and civil society institutions like the advanced industrial democracies, have struggled to… Read more »
Georgia’s long-accumulated achievements in building something approaching a democratic state are in danger of suffering death by a thousand cuts, says Thomas de Waal, a senior fellow with Carnegie Europe, specializing… Read more »
Thousands of opposition supporters took to the streets of Georgia’s capital Tbilisi on Sunday to demand snap polls after the ruling Georgian Dream party claimed victory in a parliamentary vote,… Read more »
This weekend’s election in Georgia is seen as a litmus test of legitimacy for the ruling Georgian Dream Party (GD) and as a referendum on party leader Bidzina Ivanishvili’s oligarchic… Read more »
What will be COVID-19’s longer-term impact on democracy? Recent research points to the causal pathways that can lead to democratic breakdown — as a result of the global economic fallout from the pandemic,… Read more »