A poll by the US National Democratic Institute last week showed 31 per cent of Georgians supported joining the Eurasian Union, the integration project among former Soviet states that Russia’s Vladimir Putin is setting up as a geopolitical rival to the EU. While two-thirds still backed western integration, the proportion supporting the alternative has doubled in a year.
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