09 September 2009

Quite chilly relations between Georgia and Armenia did not become warmer even after Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili’s recent visit to Yerevan where he had vainly attempted to solve the long-standing problems in the bilateral relations.

22 July 2009

I believe that Barack Obama managed to avert another Russia-Georgia war and now Tbilisi is arguing more confidently that Russia’s war threat has been prevented. The question is for how long.  

08 June 2009

After May 26 (Georgia’s Independence Day), when an impressively large-scale rally organized by the opposition had shown that too many people in Georgia sought to make Mikheil Saakashvili and his team resign, the opposition and the ruling party decided to weaken their confrontation and to step back from the “Red Line”.

20 April 2009

How long the opposition’s rally in Tbilisi will last and how long can it maintain the protest mood? Many have asked this question since the seventh day of the protest rally when it became clear that the opposition had failed to take to the streets the number of protesters, which would be a weighty argument for the authorities to effect changes.

23 March 2009

The external players, which have their own plans and interests in Georgia and the Caucasus region, have become increasingly involved in monitoring of the internal developments in the country along with raising Georgia’s political temperature.

04 March 2009

Having announced the date for the protest action beginning, the opposition does not tell the people what will happen in the country, even if they manage to oust Saakashvili.

14 January 2009

It is difficult to forecast how diligently the Administration of President Barack Obama will follow the above-mentioned articles of the Charter. But there is a high probability (taking into consideration the increased tension in the Russia-U.S. relations) that Russia would consider the Charter as a challenge to its interests in South Caucasus.

01 December 2008

For the first time, Georgia has not celebrated the anniversary of the Rose Revolution in a traditional pompous way and the authorities have not boasted about their successes as they had done annually on 23 November since 2003.

12 August 2008

The guns are bellowing now in South Ossetia and Georgia, and muses of those who might mull over the solution of the grave crisis, are still silent. Many things including the people’s lives depend on how long the diplomats and policy-makers will be inactive.

11 July 2008

Ex-chairwoman of the Georgian Parliament Nino Burjanadze who had scandalously quitted President Mikheil Saakashvili’s team right before the May 21, 2008 parliamentary elections, returned to politics the very way that was most expected from her cautious and pragmatic mind.

25 April 2008

Almost all significant political forces in Georgia, including the ruling party, say that there are sufficient reasons for making the compromises with Russia that would not infringe upon Georgia’s national interests.

26 March 2008

The other day Berezovsky clarified the hints which he had dropped about his moral responsibility and his wish to continue Patarkatsishvili’s work.

31 January 2008

Mikheil Saakashvili once again extends hand of friendship to Russia and proposes to “turn over a new leaf” in bilateral relations.

24 December 2007

Mikheil Saakashvili who is seeking re-election to the second term in office as President of Georgia must be very lucky. The resolution of the issue concerning recognition of Kosovo’s independence by the West, which was due on December 10, has been postponed, even if not for long.

06 December 2007

The “Beacon of Liberty”, that, to believe U.S. President George Bush, Georgia embodied in May 2005, when he made a visit  to the country, is dying out, even though the West does not want to believe that and continues to give Saakashvili and his government a helping hand.

16 October 2007

Barely had the Saakashvili’s team got rid of Okruashvili, when a much stronger opponent, oligarch Badri Patarkatsishvili, who is expected to become leader of the united opposition, came up as a new opponent to Saakashvili.  

08 October 2007

Irakli Okruashvili may use his arrest as the political dividend that he lacked until recently. Now he is unlikely to be reproached for the implicit connections with the authorities, as it was often done in recent times.

03 July 2007

The Georgian authorities did their utmost to convince the Europeans in Brussels that Dmitry Sanakoev was not Tbilisi’s puppet, but a representative of the Ossetian population in Georgia including the breakaway region.

13 June 2007

The pending recognition of independence of the Serbian province Kosovo by the United Nations and attempts by Russia to apply the “Kosovo precedent” to the conflict zones in the post-Soviet space might reverberate negatively for Georgia.

25 May 2007

The current events in Georgia clearly indicate that after the Rose Revolution a new political culture is being aggressively planted in the country. Apart from other goals, it is most likely aimed at a complete replacement of the national Georgian traditions and values with the new philosophy.

30 March 2007

Initially, the Georgian authorities under plausible pretexts had refrained from filing a suit against Russia. The action was brought to the ECHR only four days before the deadline, which indirectly shows that Tbilisi has been intensely examining that issue.

19 February 2007

Members of the “National Forum” and some other opposition parties fear that Georgia may join NATO without Abkhazia and South Ossetia, thus losing those territories for good.

14 February 2007

Tbilisi and Baku managed to overcome the worsening of their relations in 2005 connected with the possibility of spread of the “Orange-Rose Revolution” to Azerbaijan.

09 February 2007

Last week Russia and Georgia’s presidents Vladimir Putin and Mikheil Saakashvili almost simultaneously confirmed their aspiration to improve the volatile Russian-Georgian relations.

26 January 2007

Russia has overestimated the effect of its sanctions against Georgia. It seems that the Kremlin officials have finally counted and compared their losses and gains from the sanctions against Georgia and ruled out that they better to loosen the grip.

17 January 2007

While signing the constitutional amendments on January 10, Saakashvili made no secret of the fact that they were introduced to “please friends and disappoint enemies”, and immediately he suggested working on a new Constitution.

13 December 2006

The relationship between Russia and Georgia which has been marked by tension and confrontations bears influence on Georgia’s political landscape and forthcoming national elections.

28 November 2006

Tbilisi intends to show Moscow and the whole international community that the Saakashvili Administration is eager to restart the two countries’ dialogue.

15 November 2006

The smooth neutralization of the ambitious and aggressive Okruashvili has dispelled the halo of power surrounding him.

07 November 2006

Now that the Georgian-Russian confrontation is gaining momentum and is approaching the dangerous point, the sides appear to think over in what mode they will continue coexistence.