The idiom ‘Georgian experience’ is frequently mentioned in the context of the Georgia-Ukraine relationships. The Maidan government set an ambitious goal to bring Ukraine to the EU’s acquis communautaire standards.
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As a transit country, Georgia has been experiencing high levels of smuggling from all sides for a long period of time, especially since the collapse of the Soviet Union. As a result of the economic sanctions imposed on Abkhazia however, smuggling has increasingly developed, more particularly in the conflict zone although statistics on the matter seem to be difficult to find.
The impunity of law enforcement officers and their service as protectors of the government and not the rule of law were two of the main reasons why mass protests transformed into a full-scale revolution in winter 2013-2014.
The sociological survey conducted by the “Democratic Initiative” Fund in December 2014 shows that in Ukraine the balance of trust/mistrust towards Ukrainian judges has deteriorated from -52% to -72% over the last year.
2014 has marked a change of regime in Ukraine. The new Ukrainian government has proclaimed European integration to be their key goal. Having this in mind, they turned their heads towards Georgia – a post-Soviet country considered to be a “success story” in their progress after the pro-Western Rose Revolution of 2003.
Wojciech Konończuk: Head of Department for Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova at the Centre for Eastern Studies (OSW), Warsaw-based think tank.…
Sinikukka Saari: Senior Research Fellow at The Finnish Institute of International Affairs The speech was delivered as part of the…
Russia’s strategic objective is to gain recognition of its dominance over the post-Soviet area.
The ISET Policy Institute (ISET-PI) is a research institution that was created in May 2011. It is one of the first university-based think tanks in the South Caucasus.
Ethnic and state borders in the Caucasus region often do not coincide, and cause ethno-religious tensions in this culturally diverse…
