It is said in Tbilisi that if many share the same dream, it has the potential to become a reality. Today, Georgia stands at the doorway of that achievable ‘dream’ in that it seems clear tangible change is on the way. Such change is brought to us by Bidzina Ivanishvili and his newfound ‘Georgian Dream [...]
During French President Sarkozy’s recent tour of Georgia, Free Democrat party Chairman Irakli Alasania wrote an intriguing editorial published first in Le Monde. In it, the former Georgian Ambassador to the UN described the nation as at a crossroads. After nearly 20 years of turbulent rule following the collapse of the USSR, Mr. Alasania wrote that the [...]
It’s grape-harvesting season in the region of Kakheti, the sun-dappled epicenter of Georgian winemaking, and 57-year-old village potter Remi Kbilashvili is busy working with the latest hope for Georgia’s success in international wine markets — a giant, terra-cotta amphora or kvevri. The kvevri method for fermenting and aging wine, a millennia-old tradition in Georgia, is [...]
TBILISI— Free Democrats City Council Vice-Chairman visited the sprawling new Saburtalo headquarters of the Bank of Georgia on Tuesday to send a warning to the monopoly Georgia Water and Power that they had better not raise water prices on hard-pressed Tbilisi citizens. “For more than a month I have been seeking answers about what was [...]
Free Democrats leader Irakli Alasania recently released an open letter addressed to Georgian Prime Minister Nika Gilauri raising questions and requesting guarantees about the Georgian government’s plans for an Initial Public Offering (IPO) of 20-25 percent of the shares of strategically-vital companies. As a party committed to free markets as well as the protection of fundamental [...]
Like a good actor, Georgia can swiftly change appearance without even leaving the stage. On May 25th it presented its ugly face, as a few hundred stick-wielding protesters led by Nino Burjanadze, a former speaker of parliament, clashed with police, who dispersed them with tear gas and rubber bullets. This was the Georgia of old, [...]
Jamestown Foundation correspondent Giorgi Kvelashvili below discussesthe de-Sovietization of Georgia, its progress based on the work and recent writings of President Saakashvili. Though the unorthodox relationship with Russia has hindered the mechanisms of autonomy in the post-Soviet state, the boom we begin to see with respect to police reform, a crucial element to ongoing civil [...]
