By Years: Eerik-Niiles Kross

The primary opponent in foreign policy is Georgia’s ruling regime, known as “Georgian Dream.” They face criticism for autocratic tendencies, human rights violations, and electoral fraud. Domestically, opponents are criticized for employing demagogic tactics—specifically whataboutism—and introducing irrelevant topics like culture wars. Substantive contacts with Georgian Dream have been broken off because they have chosen a course that leans heavily toward autocracies.

The primary opposition is directed at the Russian Federation as the aggressor state, whose actions (the deportation of children, the illegitimacy of elections) are treated as war crimes and genocide. Criticism is also aimed at the Moscow Patriarchate for spreading the *Russki Mir* ideology, and at the Georgian government for deviating from its democratic course. This opposition is intense, ideologically and legally justified, and precludes any compromise with the aggressors.