Russia and European elections: Georgia

Another nation continues its slide toward Russian style autocracy

Last fall, the residents of Georgia, USA weren’t the Georgians voting in a consequential national election: voters in Georgia the country also went to the polls.

Home to ~3.7mn people and located on the Black Sea, Georgia is a former Soviet state and shares an extended northern border with Russia. Back in 2008, the two fought a five-day war that ended wi…