Putin-style law leaves Georgia at a crossroads

Ian Bond, deputy director of the Centre for European Reform, also told this site, “The paradox of Georgia is that it has the most pro-EU population in the former Soviet space, and has come further than any other Eastern European country in tackling corruption, but it now has one of the most anti-EU governments, controlled from behind the scenes by an oligarch who made his money in Russia in the 1990s.

“The EU has to find a way to help those who want Georgia to become a modern European democracy, not an authoritarian satellite of Russia.”