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125221
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2013.
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A strange thing happened in Georgia last October. After an extremely contentious election season in which Bidzina Ivanishvili, the leader of the opposition, was stripped of his citizenship and fined millions of dollars, in which opposition activists were regularly harassed and arrested, and in which the media was dominated by the government, the opposition surprised many Western observers and governments by scoring a decisive victory and winning control of Parliament. Then an even stranger thing happened. The day after the election, the ruling party of Georgia, President Mikheil Saakashvili's United National Movement (UNM), gracefully conceded defeat to the new Prime Minister Ivanishvili's Georgian Dream (GD) coalition.
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125349
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2013.
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"[T]he essential story of Georgian politics is a gradual, long-term trend: the slow growth in popular expectations of an accountable government that engages in fair economic and political play."
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118604
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2012.
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The recent long-awaited change in government in Georgia has sparked a debate among political observers about how the October 2012 election will affect Russian-Georgian relations. The negative impact will be negligible because bilateral relations cannot get any worse than they already are. We can look towards the future with a small degree of cautious optimism. After all, a dream - whether in Georgia or somewhere else - is only a dream, not a plan of action. There are promises and expectations in both Russia and Georgia, and Georgians want change. However, the reality may be a far cry from promises and expectations.
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