27 August 2020
RUSSIA INTERFERES IN GEORGIA POLLS A parliamentary poll in Georgia is due for October 2020 and thus many signs are that Russia will make efforts to place its bets on the Alliance of Patriots of Georgia, a radical pro-Russian party. Its political feats come in handy for Georgian Dream, the country’s governing party that depicts itself as a moderate and pro-Western group especially if contrasted with the Alliance of Patriots of Georgia. Yet it follows a policy that fits Moscow, often sparking outrage in the West.
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ossier Center, a Russian investigative Chernov, who heads the president’s department project established by the Kremlin critic, for interregional and cultural relations with Mikhail Khodorkovsky, released a report, foreign countries. The department is in fact offering a comprehensive insight into Russia’s tasked with counteracting what is known as backing of the Georgian nativist party. The “color revolutions” in the post-Soviet world. group quoted some documents from the Chernov is a close associate of Sergey Ivanov, secretary of the Russian SVR General Vladimir Putin’s former chief of staff. The Alliance of
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