Revaz Koiava • Edisher Baghaturia • Yulia Nikitina GEORGIA AND RUSSIA: BILATERAL VIEW ON THE QUARTER CENTURY RELATIONS Research Report 2017 1 Revaz Koiava • Edisher Baghaturia • Yulia Nikitina GEORGIA AND RUSSIA: BILATERAL VIEW ON THE QUARTER CENTURY RELATIONS Research Report 2017 1 The publication was created with the support of the UK government’s Conflict, Stability and Security Fund. Opinions, expressed in this publication are the sole responsibility of the “Caucasian House” and do not necessarily reflect the official views of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Project Director: Giorgi Kanashvili Translator: Natia Nadiradze Designer: Nikoloz Gelashvili © Caucasian House www.caucasianhouse.ge
[email protected] www.regional-dialogue.com 2 Caucasian House is a cultural-educational organization, which aims to establish an ideological and intellectual base for peaceful development in Georgia and the Caucasus. Caucasian House has been working on projects covering issues such as regional development and the integration of different Caucasian peoples for a long time. In recent years, the organization actively studies political and social processes in the Caucasus and its adjacent regions. Some projects have already been implemented, including collaborative research by young Georgian and foreign analysts, informational visits to Georgia and other countries of the region, meetings with experts and government representatives. Through this project over the last five years more than ten political document were published about the Georgian conflict regions, Georgian-Russian relations, the North Caucasus, the Russian-Ukrainian conflict and other topics. The present account was prepared in 2016. It was based on social research, which was implemented within the project ‘Georgian-Russian dialogue for peace and co-operation’, within which Georgian and Russian researchers participated.