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ATHENS, Ga. — Kirby Smart may enjoy the College Football Playoff, but it’s safe to say he isn’t a fan of the College Football Playoff committee. On two separate occasions after Saturday’s crucial 31-17 victory over Tennessee, Smart took a moment to castigate the committee’s decisionmaking and question its football acumen. “I don’t know what […]
Carson Beck threw three interceptions against Florida and has thrown 11 interceptions in his last five games. (Photo by David Rosenblum/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images) QB Carson Beck had a rough game but threw a go-ahead TD pass with 4:01 to go as No. 2 Georgia beat Florida 34-20. Beck threw three interceptions on Saturday […]
Bidzina Ivanishvili is widely perceived to be the big winner of Georgia’s weekend parliamentary election. Although the results are bitterly contested, with tens of thousands of protesters flooding the streets of Tbilisi on Monday, Georgia’s richest man is credited with – almost single-handedly – having served his country to Russia on a silver platter. Source […]
In November 2004, Ukraine’s pro-Russian prime minister, Viktor Yanukovych, tried to steal the country’s presidential election, triggering the Orange Revolution protests and reactions from the West. Then-U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell memorably went to the press briefing room and declared that the United States could not accept the results as legitimate. Current U.S. Secretary […]
Georgia’s ruling party has retained power in a contested parliamentary election, in a blow to the country’s long-held aspiration for EU membership and amid accusations of intimidation and coercion of voters. Georgia’s pro-western opposition refused to concede defeat, accusing the ruling party of a “constitutional coup” and promising to announce protests, setting the stage for […]
“We will continue to demand the annulment of the results,” it said. Rival exit polls gave sharply different projections for the election: the Georgian Dream-supporting Imedi TV channel showed the ruling party winning 56 per cent. Exit polls by the pro-opposition channels showed major gains for the opposition parties. Ivanishvili, Georgian Dream’s reclusive billionaire founder […]
Georgians will vote in parliamentary elections on Saturday that look set to define whether the mountainous nation that straddles Eastern Europe and West Asia will pivot towards Moscow or Brussels. The geopolitical bifurcation of the country’s politics has been gradually building for years but came to the fore in April, when wide-scale protests broke out. […]
The adoption of a controversial foreign agents law by Georgia’s ruling party in May marked the lowest point in Tbilisi’s relations with the West since it declared its pro-Western foreign-policy aspirations in the early 2000s. Despite mass protests, a presidential veto overriding the Law on Transparency of Foreign Influence, U.S. sanctions against Georgian officials, and […]
Georgia RB Trevor Etienne scored three TDs in the Bulldogs’ win over Texas. (Photo by David Buono/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images) Everyone in the SEC has a loss. No. 1 Texas, the last unbeaten team in the conference, was overwhelmed by No. 5 Georgia in the first half of the Bulldogs’ 30-15 win on Saturday […]