Gocha Gogsadze

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Gocha Gogsadze

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Gocha Gogsadze is a London-based political analyst and civil rights activist from Tbilisi.

Georgians protest during oil and gas shortages in January 2006 as a result of an explosion damaging the main and backup natural gas pipelines supplying Georgia through Russia. Photo via RFE/RL.

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Opinion | Armenia’s elections are a return of Russia’s 2006 Georgia playbook

by Gocha Gogsadze

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The 7 June elections may reveal just how much cost Armenian society may be willing to bear in pursuit of greater strategic autonomy.

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