TBILISI - The Ukraine crisis has shattered key Western assumptions about Russia, and many analysts and policymakers have fallen back on the belief that Russian President Vladimir Putin must be acting irrationally. But it is Western assumptions that need to be questioned. In particular, what has made Russia so keen to undermine the current international order, first in Georgia in 2008 and in Ukraine now?
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23rd October 2014, 12:15 Open Society Georgia Foundation’s conference room, Chovelidze 10, Tbilisi Georgians face highest refusal rate in visa application process among all six Eastern Partnership countries. Why? Mostly due to complicated procedures and unclear instructions people lodge incomplete or badly prepared applications, what cause in visa refusal.
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