Demography as a Facilitator of a Rapprochement in Russia-Georgian Relations

... though much less than vis-à-vis neighboring Armenia and Azerbaijan (see Table 3 in the Appendix) [16] . Of special importance is the 2004-2013 presidency of Mikheil Saakashvili. As shown in the Table 3 in the Appendix, between 2008 and 2012, migration from Georgia into Russia intensified, with the balance between the countries rising from 25,000 in 2004-2007 to 38,000 today. Migration is an unequivocally positive phenomenon that has been a locomotive of progress and development globally and in the Russia-Georgia ...