COMMENT: How Georgian Dream calculates its survival – and why Russia keeps South Ossetia on the table: Western and Russian pressure represent fundamentally different categories of threat to the ruling party.… Bne IntelliNews #GeorgianDream #SouthOssetia #ForeignPolicy #PoliticalStrategy #Geopolitics

JUST IN: Russia backed South Ossetia elects former Russian official Marat Kambolov as president

Kambolov ~85% in occupied Tskhinvali vote; Georgia/EU call it illegal/null (Reuters/Civil.ge).

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