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Opinion | Georgia's neoliberal agony

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Riot police use water canon to disperse demon­stra­tors during a protest against the gov­ern­ment. Photo: Mari Nikuradze/OC Media

Mate Gabitsi­nashvili is a Georgian political economy analyst and a TV host at the Georgian Public Broad­cast­er. He reports about the crisis of the global financial economy, the origins of neolib­er­al trans­for­ma­tion and the future of devel­op­ing countries from the per­spec­tives of heterodox economics.

In Georgia, the state has given up on devel­op­ment. Neolib­er­al­ism is exhausted — there's nothing left to sell or dereg­u­late. [Read more…]

Opposition and activists rally against Gakharia as Georgia’s next PM

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Giorgi Gakharia (left) being nominated by Bidzina Ivan­ishvili on Tuesday. (Georgian Dream Facebook)

Con­tro­ver­sial Georgian Interior Minister Giorgi Gakharia is slated to become the country’s next prime minister, the fifth under the rule of Georgian bil­lion­aire Bidzina Ivanishvili’s Georgian Dream party.  [Read more…]

Opinion | Proportional elections are an opportunity for Georgia; it’s up to young people to seize it

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Vera Gogokhia is a civic activist and founder of You for Democracy, an NGO sup­port­ing youth activism in Georgia. She is a Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellow at the National Endowment for Democracy where she is exploring ways to bridge the gap between young people and political parties.

As Georgia tran­si­tions to a new electoral system, it’s up to young people to seize the oppor­tu­ni­ty to make Georgia a better place. [Read more…]

Russian MP’s appearance in Georgian Parliament sparks protests across Georgia

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Russian Duma MP Sergey Gavrilov address­ing the Georgian par­lia­ment. (1TV)

The appear­ance of a Russian Duma MP in the Georgian Par­lia­men­tary chair seat has triggered protests across Georgia as politi­cians from both oppo­si­tion and ruling parties condemned the action. Sergey Gavrilov, who was escorted out of par­lia­ment, warned that ‘nego­ti­a­tions on human­i­tar­i­an-economic issues between the two countries may fail’ due to the incident. [Read more…]

Opinion | Ivanishvili clings to a frayed political brand while facing a new kind of opposition

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Shota Kincha is a staff writer at OC Media.

On the eve of the 19 May by-elections in eight munic­i­pal­i­ties and for a par­lia­men­tary seat in Tbilisi’s Mtats­min­da District, the Georgian Dream party, chaired by Georgia’s informal ruler Bidzina Ivan­ishvili, faces a potential new rival that could poten­tial­ly mobilise the party’s estranged base — the Tbilisi elite. [Read more…]

Analysis | Why the ruling party in Georgia is losing its MPs

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A still-forming group in par­lia­ment led by former Georgian Dream member Eka Beselia could upset the political landscape in Georgia. With 2020 par­lia­men­tary elections on the horizon, this new group poses a potential threat to both bil­lion­aire former prime minister Bidzina Ivanishvili’s ruling party as well as the main oppo­si­tion. [Read more…]

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