Ia Antadze

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Georgia At The Crossroads

Politics has, it seems, never been so popular in Georgia. But the voters are being offered two very different views on the country's future by parties contesting the coming parliamentary elections.

8 Oct 12

Georgia Awaits a Transfiguration

Eduard Shevardnadze's inauguration ceremony was redolent with omens of a brighter future but thin on promises of decisive reform.

5 May 00

Ajaria: A Fool's Paradise?

Ajarian leader Aslan Abashidze is fond of boasting that he has created a virtual "paradise" on the shores of the Black Sea. But not of all his subjects would agree with him.

28 Apr 00

One Horse Race in Tbilisi

Most voters quietly accept that President Eduard Shevardnadze will win the April 9 elections - but they bitterly resent the fact that there is no real alternative.

5 Apr 00

Georgian Women Break the Mould

New economic realities are eroding the traditional stereotype of Georgian women as devoted home-makers and long-suffering martyrs.

3 Mar 00

Georgia's Political Carnival

While the incumbent's victory in Georgia's forthcoming presidential vote seems certain, a bizarre array of eccentrics, misfits and criminals have joined the race.

25 Feb 00

Clash of the Tbilisi Titans

Georgia's political heavyweights are set to cross swords in the wake of Shevardnadze's expected election victory

11 Feb 00
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