Georgia: The Mechanism Nobody Knows…
A mechanism invoked only 16 times in 35 years - its previous targets: Belarus, Chechnya, Turkmenistan. Now Georgia has been added to that list. An EU candidate country whose government has jailed opposition leaders, dismantled civil society through legislation, and allegedly sprayed protesters with a chemical agent abandoned after World War I. What the Moscow Mechanism is, why it is so rarely used - and what its activation against Georgia reveals about a country that just three years ago was celebrated as a post-Soviet success story.