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Georgia
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Ethnicity, Religion, Politics
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English

Talks with Diana posts a paper written by the blogger on Church-State relations in Georgia. The paper concludes that the tendency for the Georgian Orthodox Church to be used by local political forces poses a threat to democratization in the former Soviet republic.

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    [...] closer to the country's legislature. Mentioning the situation in neighboring Georgia where concerns have already been raised about the involvement of the church in local politics, the blog says that such a move does not bode [...]

    # 2008-10-7 at 5:22 am

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