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How did 2024 reshape our world? From Damascus to Kyiv to Washington, our experts weigh in
The fall of Bashar al-Assad made for a stunning end to the year. On Sunday, December 15, hundreds of our readers and members gathered online to discuss the seismic shifts of the last few weeks. They heard from an outstanding group of journalists, activists and analysts in Damascus, Kyiv, Tbilisi, London and Washington to discuss the implications for Russian power and the global battle between authoritarians and democrats. The full discussion is well worth your while, but here we offer a sample of their acute readings, of insights gleaned from personal experience on the ground and hard won knowledge.
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In Damascus, as over half a century of iron-fisted dictatorship crumbled to dust, journalist Zeina Shahla described the atmosphere:
- “I have lived in Damascus through all the years of the war, and this week has been like nothing else. The first two days were really violent. Now, though, people are back at wo
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Kutelia, Sikharulidze: Ending Putin’s wars – don’t forget Georgia
Aside from the capital city of Tbilisi, where 40 miles away Russian occupying troops are stationed in Georgia’s South Ossetia region, the danger of unjust peace is also felt in Batumi, the country’s tourist hotspot on the Black Sea coast.
Over the horizon lies Ukraine’s Russian-occupied Crimea. Drive two hours north of Batumi along the coast, and Russian troops also occupy another of Georgia’s regions – Abkhazia.
Russia invaded Georgia in August 2008, capturing Abkhazia and South Ossetia and shattering the foundation of the rules-based international order. On the invasion’s 15th anniversary, Russian troops continue to occupy one-fifth of Georgia, violating the EU-mediated ceasefire agreement, and lasting peace seems far off.
Russian aggression against Georgia is not only limited to military occupation. The Kremlin, both overtly and covertly, continues to employ all components of hybrid warfare, from propaganda, domestic interference, and corruption, to exerting malign influence to derail Georgia from its democratic development and Western integration.
Kyiv, Moscow’s opposing attitudes toward Soviet past shape two different futures
For Kyiv’s Motherland monument, 2023 marks an era of rebirth. In late July
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Salomé Zourabichvili, Georgia's president who defies Slavonic rule
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