The Second Georgian Dream is About to Come True

... Georgia under EU programs, but it also noted that Tbilisi had refused time and again to act as an agent for the West in the South Caucasus, a region neighboring Russia. Georgian authorities were adamant that national interests dictated the principle ... ... bowed to Western demands on issues where it did not see a threat to itself: phasing out of the majority vote in parliamentary elections, which was enshrined in the new Constitution; backing Saakashvili’s former Foreign Minister Salome Zourabichvili,...