A new report prepared under the auspices of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) documents a significant deterioration in human rights and democratic standards in Georgia and calls for urgent reforms to protect fundamental freedoms.
Published on March 12, the report was prepared by an OSCE fact-finding mission after 23 participating states invoked the rarely used “Moscow...
The report’s release reflects a highly constrained strategic environment. The invocation of the “Moscow Mechanism” signals a deep level of distrust – likely originating from Russia’s prior interventions and a sustained campaign to undermine Georgia’s sovereignty. The document itself operates within a familiar ‘bad actor’ frame: a state (Georgia, implicitly) failing to protect its own citizens and institutions, coupled with external forces (Russia, and arguably the West, through its support of Ge...