The Land In Between
A five-part podcast from the Global Reporting Centre, reported by Victor Swezey from Tbilisi, where Georgia is being pulled in two directions at once — Putin's Russia on one side, the European Union on the other. The opening episode moves from tear-gassed streets to a rigged polling station to the manicured gardens of a billionaire oligarch, all in about twenty-five minutes.
What stays with you is the vantage point. This is a country most maps treat as peripheral — a land in between larger powers — and yet its choice feels like a place where the shape of the wider world is being decided in miniature.
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