The Second Georgian Dream is About to Come True

... defeated to fulfill the second Georgian dream: Ivanishvili’s team believed that purging Georgia’s government agencies of foreign agents would prevent the West from pushing harmful policies in the country and force it to rebuild relations with Tbilisi ... ... de-Westernizing Georgia—Russia. The absence of diplomatic relations and the diametrically opposed positions of Moscow and Tbilisi on Abkhazia and South Ossetia hold no weight in the West’s calculations—all it sees is the struggle between major powers for ...