RUSSIA INTERFERES IN GEORGIA POLLS

27 August 2020 RUSSIA INTERFERES IN GEORGIA POLLS

A parliamentary poll in Georgia is due for October 2020 and thus many signs are that Russia will make efforts to place its bets on the Alliance of Patriots of Georgia, a radical pro-Russian party. Its political feats come in handy for Georgian Dream, the country’s governing party that depicts itself as a moderate and pro-Western group especially if contrasted with the Alliance of Patriots of Georgia. Yet it follows a policy that fits Moscow, often sparking outrage in the West.

Dossier Center, a Russian investigative project established by the Kremlin critic, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, released a report, offering a comprehensive insight into Russia’s backing of the Georgian nativist party. The group quoted some documents from the secretary of the Russian SVR General Vladimir Chernov, who heads the president’s department for interregional and cultural relations with foreign countries. The department is in fact tasked with counteracting what is known as “color revolutions” in the post-Soviet world. Chernov is a close associate of Sergey Ivanov, Putin’s former chief of staff. The Alliance of

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