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Institute of World Policy held the videoconference with Tbilisi “20 years of Independence: is it enough time to build the European State?”.Ukrainian experts, journalists and youth leaders had an opportunity to discuss the current situation in Ukraine and Georgia with Kakha Bendukidze, former Minister of Economy of Georgia, the founder of Free University of Tbilisi, and Gia Nodia, Professor, Director of the International School for Caucasus Studies, Ilia State University.
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They claimed that the reforms in Georgia can be perfect example of how the country can be modernized within the short period of time.
Answering the questions from the Ukrainian experts, Kakha Bendukidze said that Georgia had managed to create the distinct structure of power, which allowed to reform the economy.
“However, our main task is to liberalize the economy even further”, he claimed.

On suggestion that effectivenes of reforms could provoke Russia in 2008 he argued that these issues are not inter-dependable.
“You may make Russia react agressively without doing anything as well. There are hardly any country that managed to keep the relations with Russia on the stable and good level”, he explained.

Gia Nodia also stressed out the importance of the new North Caucasus strategy of Georgia. “Such soft power and soft impact may have longgoing positive effects’, he said.