While the nadir in post-Soviet Russo-Georgian relations passed with the defeat of the United National Movement by the Georgian Dream coalition in the 2012 parliamentary elections, the subsequent Georgian governments have nevertheless maintained the country’s goal of NATO and EU membership. Over the past few years, however, both polling data and anecdotal evidence suggest a possible shift of Georgian sympathies away from the European and Euro-Atlantic vector toward Russia, including an increase in support for Georgian membership in Putin’s Eurasian Union. Assessing the different geopolitical orientations of the South Caucasus countries, one of my Georgian friends ruefully concluded that “the …read more
Source: The American Interest
