The US and European Union are struggling to respond to a mounting political crisis in Georgia that boiled over in the former Soviet republic with the arrest of the opposition leader Nika Melia last month. Leading former diplomats, including The Cable’s Jonathan Katz, have issued a statement calling for his release. The Georgian parliament’s former First Deputy Chair Tamar Chugoshvili joins Jonathan and Greg for an important conversation explaining the crisis and what to do about it with former US Ambassador to Georgia Ian Kelly, who’s co-authored a new report on the case for supporting Georgia.
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Guests
TAMAR CHUGOSHVILI
Former First Deputy Chair of Georgia’s parliament
Former member of the ruling Georgian Dream Party
IAN KELLY
Former US Ambassador to Georgia
Former US Ambassador to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe
Hosts
Executive Director, Institute of Current World Affairs
Journalist, author of Russians: The People Behind the Power
Senior Fellow and Director of Democracy Initiatives, The German Marshall Fund of the United States
Former Deputy Assistant Administrator, Europe and Eurasia Bureau, US Agency for International Development
The Cable is produced by Rebecca Picard
Top photo credit: Gerd Eichmann, Wikimedia Commons
