The New York Times Narrated

How Georgia Went From the Vanguard of Democracy to the Front Lines of Autocracy

Episode Summary

Two decades after the Rose Revolution, the former Soviet satellite is turning away from the West and back toward Russia. What happened? To read the full story, please visit: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/magazine/georgia-russia-autocracy-dictatorship.html By Scott Anderson Read by Robert Petkoff Narration produced by Krish Seenivasan Engineered by Devin Murphy

Episode Notes

Two decades after the Rose Revolution, the former Soviet satellite is turning away from the West and back toward Russia. What happened?

To read the full story, please visit: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/magazine/georgia-russia-autocracy-dictatorship.html

By Scott Anderson
Read by Robert Petkoff
Narration produced by Krish Seenivasan
Engineered by Devin Murphy