Georgia climbed the Democratic ladder for years. Now Stalin’s ghost questions the country’s future. And at home, it is time for a political guerrilla war.
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Georgians demonstrate against the imprisonment of opposition leader Nika Melia. The riots are in danger of blackening the country’s democratic progress. Foto: Irakli Gedenidze, Reuters / NTB
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It’s smoldering in Georgia. Not in the well-known American southern state, but in the small country of war-torn Caucasus.
Despite the fact that the country is home to a population of only four million, the country plays a strategically important role. Traditionally, Georgia has been a hub between the West and the East.
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