The leaders of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia have all swiftly congratulated Donald Trump on his reelection as president of the US, expressing hope for further cooperation with his incoming administration.
In Georgia, senior officials offered their congratulations to Trump, with Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili leading the way, referring to the US as Georgia’s ‘strategic partner and friend of 33 years’.
‘[It] is needed now more than ever to support [Georgia’s] Euro-Atlantic integration, bolster regional security and stability, and safeguard our freedom’, Zourabichvili wrote on X.
She was quickly followed by her former ally, Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze, who congratulated US President-elect Trump on his ‘decisive victory’ in the election.
‘I am confident that President Trump’s leadership will promote peace globally and in our region as well as ensure [a] restart in [US–Georgia] relations’, Kobakhidze added.
By mentioning ‘peace’ and the prospect of revitalising US-Georgian relations, Kobakhidze appeared to have crafted his update on the X platform to echo and strengthen the official line pushed by him and his government.
Georgian Dream, which came to power in 2012 and governed during Trump’s first presidential tenure (2017–2021), largely attributed disagreements with the US to the US Embassy and specific agencies, a stance echoed even more distinctly by its satellite groups. Ties between the US and Georgia began to deteriorate significantly during President Joe Biden’s administration, and notably hit an all-time low following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
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Since 2022, the Georgian government has been tacitly accusing Western powers and NATO of provoking Russia into invading Ukraine, adding recently that this was also the case in 2008, when they allegedly instructed then-President Mikheil Saakashvili to incite the Russian invasion during the August War.
In introducing draconianlaws to restrict civil freedoms and subtly, yet unmistakably, accusing the US of seeking a coup in Georgia, Georgian Dream simultaneously attempted to persuade Georgian voters, in the lead-up to last month’s parliamentary elections, that their adversary was not the US itself, but rather a ‘global war party’.
On 7 December, Daghestani law enforcement officers reported on the detention of suspects in preparation of a terrorist attack who were allegedly members of ‘a clandestine cell of a terrorist organisation banned in Russia’.
The press service of the regional branch of Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) told the state-run news outlet RIA Novosti that 12 people had been detained on suspicion of the crime. The suspects were allegedly found in possession of two ready-made improvised explosive de
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