About Lise Provost


Freelance journalist based in Paris. My writings focus on international politics.

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Prabowo Subianto: Promoting a pragmatic approach for Indonesia

Sep 26, 2012 1 Comment

In Indonesia, the next presidential election is set to be held in 2014. While the current president is constitutionally barred from running for office a third consecutive time.

Georgia: Bidzina Ivanishvili appoints Larry King and Robert Menard as political advisors

Sep 18, 2012 Comment

In Georgia, presidential candidate Bidzina Ivanishvili has recently recruited the services of several key foreign personalities. They will advise him in the upcoming presidential race, set to take place in early 2013. Among them, Larry King and Robert Ménard have joined the International Advisory Board of Channel 9, a media station that is controlled by the Georgian oligarch.

Déjà vu for Georgia?

Jul 17, 2012 Comment

This vision of the USSR (visible at the entrance of the Exhibition of Moscow) is shared by many Russians who are unhappy with their current living conditions, and who tend to have a shorter memory than their democratic counterparts might like.

President Mikhail Saakashvili

Georgia: State Modernisation by Decentralisation

Jul 11, 2012 Comment

After the downfall of the Tsar Empire, Georgia gained her independence on May 26th, 1918 - a dream that lasted only three years, until Stalin’s homeland was again compelled to be part to the new USSR. President Mikhail Saakashvili