Facing Criticism, President Imposes Moratorium on Pardoning Inmates
VoA Terms Imedi TV Story “Deeply Troubling”, Imedi Denies
U.S. ‘Very Concerned’ by Developments at Occupation Line
CSOs Seek Involvement in Parliamentary Group on Selection of Judges
EU Enlargement Commissioner on Georgia’s Judiciary Reform, ‘Borderization’
Public Attitudes in NDI-Commissioned Opinion Survey
EUMM on Events in Chorchana-Tsnelisi Area
EU Enlargement Commissioner Visits Tbilisi, Inaugurates European School
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Interviews
A Risky Proposition? Interview with Anders Fogh Rasmussen
Anders Fogh Rasmussen, former NATO Secretary General (August 2009 to October 2014) says Georgia may consider – temporarily – removing Article 5 protection from its occupied regions, to fast-track NATO accession. “There’s clearly a risk”, Rasmussen told us, that Russia may try to preempt accession…
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Editorial
Nominating Gakharia, Ivanishvili Inaugurates his War Cabinet
Bidzina Ivanishvili, force and purse behind Georgia’s ruling Georgian Dream party had an emotionally charged summer. In June, he got an unexpected scare, as thousands have hit the streets, triggered by the Russian MP taking the Georgian Parliament Speaker’s chair. Caught off balance, the executive…
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Analysis
Pundits Assess Degnan’s Nomination as U.S. Ambassador to Georgia
The White House has nominated Kelly Colleen Degnan for the U.S. Ambassador to Georgia position, that remains vacant since Ambassador Ian C. Kelly completed his mission in March 2018. Kelly Degnan, President Donald Trump’s pick for the position is a native of California with 25 years of diplomatic experience. Degnan currently serves as the Political Advisor to the Commander of United States Naval Forces Europe–Africa and her prior…
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Op-eds
President Salome Zurabishvili: „Forward on the Road to Europe“
“I was never in doubt that you are part of the great European civilization.” These were the words of Donald Tusk, President of the European Council, when addressing the Batumi International Conference last July to celebrate 10 years of the Eastern Partnership. While in Warsaw to commemorate the 80th anniversary of World War II, President Andrzej Duda of Poland, President Kersti Kaljulaid of Estonia, and…
