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Trouble in Tbilisi

Whit Mason | Mar 01, 2005
Liberty and security are hard to combine. Georgians risk losing both.

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Support Georgia, Not Saakashvili

Nino Burjanadze | Jun 02, 2009
Mikheil Saakashvili suppresses democracy, curbs free speech, and blasts his opponents as radical and unpatriotic. Why is he the media darling of the West?

Standoff in Georgia

Tedo Japaridze | May 06, 2009
NATO’s military exercises begin today in Georgia. Meanwhile, President Saakashvili has accused the Russians of planning a coup against his government. This dispute ignores Georgia’s deeper internal problems with democracy.

Tbilisi's Illusion

Tsotne Bakuria | Apr 08, 2009
Mikheil Saakashvili’s regime, faced with growing opposition, is becoming increasingly undemocratic—and the West should pay attention.
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Missiles Over Tskhinvali

Thomas de Waal | Apr 20, 2010
Last summer, Russia and Georgia came to blows. Tbilisi’s pro-American president believed NATO would protect him in a fight with the big, bad bear.

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