On September 6, former Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili, who now heads the Executive Committee of the National Council of Reforms in Ukraine, announced that he will come back to Georgia for the upcoming October 2 municipal race. According to all polls, Saakashvili’s United National Movement (UNM) party will be the most formidable opponent of billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili’s ruling Georgian Dream …
On May 16, in the small town of Dmanisi, about 40 miles from the border with Azerbaijan, a fist fight at a local shop escalated into a violent brawl involving hundreds of Georgian mountain dwellers (Svans) and local ethnic Azerbaijanis wielding clubs, iron rods and stones. The rioting was pacified only after the introduction of Special Forces of the Georgian …
The ‘Big Game’ Around Georgia’s Deep-Water Ports
Publication: Eurasia Daily Monitor Volume: 18 Issue: 79
Anaklia deep-water port mockup (Source: Agenda.ge)
Last March, Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili announced that his government would post a new tender for the construction of the Anaklia deep-water port (Report.ge March 31; Netgazeti, March 4). This mega-project, originally envisioned by former president Mikhail Saakashvili (in power 2004–2012), is the most ambitious in Georgian history. Several years ago, the country’s parliament even amended the constitution to facilitate its development, obligating any future government to build a deep-water port on the Black Sea coast of Georgia. The completion of such a port promises to upend the geopolitical and geo-economic situation of the Caucasus, Central Asia, and the Black and Caspian Sea regions (Jam-news.net, January 1, 2020).
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