Georgia Is Having a Democratic Counterrevolution
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In Georgia today they are talking about the counterrevolution.
The Oct. 1 parliamentary election in Georgia produced the kind of result that we don’t expect from elections in post-Soviet countries. The opposition won. The governing party of Mikheil Saakashvili, who came to power in the country’s peaceful Rose Revolution of 2003, has been defeated by the Georgian Dream coalition, led by Georgia’s wealthiest man, Bidzina Ivanishvili.