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Vladimer Papava

Vladimer Papava was Minister of Economy of Georgia.

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“Economic imperialism in Russia”

by Frederick Starr, Vladimer Papava

2 February 2006

Russia’s use of gas to exert pressures upon Ukraine has provoked concern in the West. However, pressures upon Georgia are even stronger although less noticed. In Georgia, as well as in Ukraine, Vladimir Putin wants to apply the doctrine of the liberal empire formulated by Anatoli Chubais, (...)