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...small South Caucusus nation of Georgia, the pace of change over the last few weeks has been enough to take your breath away. Just last month thousands of students were celebrating in the streets of Tbilisi, singing praises of the “bloodless revolution” that unseated Georgian President Eduard A. Shevardnadze. In a seeming about-face, yesterday the autonomous Georgian province of Adzharia announced that it would be boycotting participation in the Jan. 4 presidential election. This latest development has dealt a painful blow to the opposition movement, which had been gaining momentum the country...
Over the past several decades, the Russian government has made dangerous incursions into Georgian affairs in an effort to keep the central government weak so that it can exert its own leverage, both economically and militarily. Moscow has effectively prevented fomer president Shevardnadze from unifying the country by granting Russian citizenship to entire Georgian states on their shared border; and has been known to cut off the nation’s gas supplies in the middle of winter for political reasons when Shevardnadze did not cooperate. And if the economic pressure didn’t get the message across...
...security concerns in neighboring Chechnya, it seems unlikely that Russia will see Saakashvili’s ascent as any significant reason to change their oppressive policy toward the region. This makes it even more important for the United States to exercise leadership quickly, before Russia can browbeat another hopeful Georgian leader into submission...
...best experts come to Georgia, but to understand what is really going on, one must be Georgian,” he said. According to Bezhuashvili, Georgians, with educations at home and abroad, will help their country more than the best foreign experts, who often bring generic packages of reform provided by the World Bank and other international organizations...
...forum, problem set, pub,” Bezhuashvili said. “Life is very intense here.” Of course, the Georgian official and ambassador is still first and foremost a student...