Despite the unremitting hostility of its Russian neighbor, which crescendoed in a military occupation of a chunk of its territories, plucky Georgia’s commitment to reform and democratic values will ensure its rapid development into a “booming Western-style economy.” Under its charismatic Western-trained President, Saakashvili, it has rooted out corruption, ushered in untold prosperity and freedoms, and left dictatorial Russia in […]
Potemkin Georgia: Exposing The Lies Of The Saakashvili PR Machine
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by Anatoly Karlin on April 9, 2012 . 59 Comments
Creeping Caesarism: The Enemy Belligerent Act of 2010
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by Anatoly Karlin on January 24, 2011 . 8 Comments
Authoritarianism doesn’t always come with bells, whistles and goose-steps. More typically, it develops in a series of interlocking steps – a state of emergency (“war on terror”) here, a couple of indefinite detentions and Presidential hit orders there, their eventual legal codification – that while on their own seem justifiable and even innocuous, when taken […]
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