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Post-Communist Democracy

In early November, Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili broke up opposition demonstrations with riot police and tear gas, shut down independent television stations, and declared a state of emergency that lasted nine days. When pressed on the issue, he blamed Russian meddling for the unrest. Under international pressure, President Saakashvili ceded to calls for early elections and scheduled them for January 2008...

About the Author

Annie Verderosa

Ms. Verderosa has worked and traveled throughout Europe and Russia. A graduate of Stanford University, she earned a masters degree in international relations from a consortium of German universities in 2007. While there, she focused on European and East European affairsand authored two working papers on post-communist regime dynamics. Prior to graduate school, Annie worked in international governmentrelations in Washington DC, where her work focused particularly on the emerging markets of Central and Eastern Europe. Before that, she wasan International Parliamentary Fellow at the German Federal Parliament in Berlin. Her previous experience also includes research and projectwork on transatlantic relations, NATO and defense cooperation, and immigration and integration policy for the German Council on ForeignRelations, Aspen Institute Berlin, and Heinrich Boell Foundation. Ms. Verderosa has also spent time in Budapest as the associate editor of anOpen Society Institute policy journal. She is currently a Business Development Associate at U.K. Trade & Investment in New York.