Will Georgia’s billionaire puppeteer be the next to fall? | If You’re Listening

The people of Georgia are in the streets of Tbilisi, protesting the ruling party’s recent election win.
At the heart of the fight is whether the country should appease Vladimir Putin, or oppose him.
For years Georgia was moving closer to the European Union, but the war in Ukraine changed everything.
Now, billionaire oligarch Bidzina Ivanishvili and his Georgia Dream party are betting on a relationship with Putin, hoping to save the country from a fate similar to Ukraine’s.
On this episode of If You’re Listening, the story of a democracy at the crossroads of the West and the East, fighting over whether to be afraid of Vladimir Putin or not.
Matt Bevan takes a look.
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