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  • April 21, 2025
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Image credit/license: Vakho Kareli/Aprili Media  Georgia is undergoing a major identity crisis, with significant implications for both its regime type and its geopolitical alignment. Since restoring their independence from the…
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Image credit/license Georgia is not only at a geographical crossroads: In 2024, it arrived at a political one. As 2024 came to an end in Georgia, two rival claimants for…
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Image credit/license Geopolitics is perilous to democracy. This is the cautionary story from the recent adoption of “foreign agent” laws in Kyrgyzstan and Georgia (called “foreign representatives” by the former…
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Survey Data from Republic of Georgia Highlights Risks of Polarization Ahead of 2024 Election

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Image credit/license The Republic of Georgia will hold highly consequential elections on October 26. This is the first parliamentary election conducted under a fully proportional electoral system, the first since…
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Local Responses to Russian Migration in Georgia and Kazakhstan

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