{"id":7194,"date":"2025-11-20T18:42:47","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T18:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/europeandrussiablog\/?p=7194"},"modified":"2025-11-20T18:42:47","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T18:42:47","slug":"five-minutes-away-from-one-party-dictatorship-georgias-u-turn-from-western-path","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/europeandrussiablog\/2025\/11\/20\/five-minutes-away-from-one-party-dictatorship-georgias-u-turn-from-western-path\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Five minutes away from one-party dictatorship’: Georgia’s U-turn from Western path"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/five-minutesautocracy-how-georgia-u-turned-its-western-path-2025-11-18<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The article talks about how the Georgian government is moving towards a single party system. This has happened due to the ruling party, Georgian Dream, arresting opposition figures who were voted into office. But continuing from these arrests there has been a push to ban the three major opposing parties. The article also highlights the party\u2019s founder\u2019s, billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili, connection to Russia and how Georgian oil now almost exclusively comes from Russia. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is likely that the ruling party will continue to crack down on the opposition considering its previous actions. The ruling party is trying to outlive the inevitable ebb and flow of party popularity through these tactics and will likely succeed unless there is a coup. The reason I believe the only answer is a coup is because the democratic process is being actively impeded by the ruling party and with this authority they are free to do what is in the interest of the party. It is also likely that we will see an increase in Georgian relations with Russia and moving away from Western alliances in the upcoming months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The three major players are the current Georgian regime, the opposition party leaders and Russia. The Georgian regime will continue to arrest dissenters and push for stronger relations in Russia. The opposition party leaders that have been banned will either flee to other countries to escape arrest or stay to plan a coup. Russia should send support to Georgia to help solidify the power of the ruling party and in turn continue the beneficial relationship with Georgia<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This article connects to our class through themes of sovereignty and political systems. It connects to sovereignty through Georgia potentially becoming a puppet state of Russia due to the deep ties between its leader and Russia. It connects to political systems because it shows the clear shift between a multi party democratic system to an authoritarian regime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/five-minutesautocracy-how-georgia-u-turned-its-western-path-2025-11-18 The article talks about how the Georgian government is moving towards a single party system. This has happened due to the ruling party, Georgian Dream, arresting opposition figures who were voted into office. But continuing from these arrests there has been a push to ban the three major opposing parties. The article also highlights the party\u2019s founder\u2019s, billionaire Bidzina… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":328,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/europeandrussiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/europeandrussiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/europeandrussiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/europeandrussiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/328"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/europeandrussiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/europeandrussiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7195,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/europeandrussiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7194\/revisions\/7195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/europeandrussiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/europeandrussiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/europeandrussiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}