Image: Tbilisi, Georgia. Stock Photo. Pixabay.com Score one for public engagement in a former Soviet country. Grassroots protests over Georgian leaders’ plans to cozy up closer to the Russian energy giant Gazprom have led to the government dropping those plans. It’s good that the leadership has done this, because the Kremlin uses Gazprom as a geopolitical weapon. If the company had been able to grab a larger share of Georgia’s gas supply, the Georgian government would have been subjected to ever-increasing political demands from Moscow. Russia’s dominance of Georgia’s neighbor Armenia’s gas and electricity businesses shows what could happen to …read more
Source: The Huffington Post
