Georgian parliamentary elections in October of 2012 provide the first precedent of a peaceful regime change by elections in the country. At the same time it is a rare case in the whole region, and thus captured considerable attention all over the globe. In this paper, I evaluate the role of the Georgian society in these elections, which has been severely ignored in the discourse over the Georgia's political development, and in contradiction to widely spread presumption, I argue that the political process of transfer of power displayed some elements characterizing a nonviolent revolution and was far from being democratic and fair. At the same time, I argue that the discourse, which portrays the newly elected Ivanishvili's government as a pro-Russian regime, as an attempt to analyze the elections in the prism of international conjuncture is fundamentally misleading and lacks well-founded arguments.

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