Russia and Georgia: Normalization Without Setting Expectations Too High

... with the Rose Revolution in 2003, has come to an end. The outgoing Georgian president suffered his first tangible defeat in October 2012 when his United National Movement Party lost the parliamentary election to Bidzina Ivanishvili’s coalition of Georgian Dream and Democratic Georgia. In a year since then, the winner of the last year’s election has succeeded not only in creating a government of his followers and supporters but also in establishing control over the country’s security ...