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Vasil Sikharulidze
Ambassador Vasil Sikharulidze is a senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI). He is a professor at Webster University and Alte University, Georgia. Sikharulidze was the former Georgian Ambassador to the United States (2005-2008) and former Georgian Defense Minister (2009).
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Kutelia, Sikharulidze: Ending Putin’s wars – don’t forget Georgia
Aside from the capital city of Tbilisi, where 40 miles away Russian occupying troops are stationed in Georgia’s South Ossetia region, the danger of unjust peace is also felt in Batumi, the country’s tourist hotspot on the Black Sea coast.
Over the horizon lies Ukraine’s Russian-occupied Crimea. Drive two hours north of Batumi along the coast, and Russian troops also occupy another of Georgia’s regions – Abkhazia.
Russia invaded Georgia in August 2008, capturing Abkhazia and South Ossetia and s
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