INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
added.The European Union in November recommended that Georgia be granted long-awaited candidate status provided that it meets nine
conditions.Ties have been strained by Tbilisi's passage of legislation on "foreign influence" in May despite mass street protests against
accusations of derailing the country from its EU membership path and leading it back toward the Russian orbit.Russian officials were
West of plotting to overthrow the Georgian government.The United States launched a comprehensive review of U.S.-Georgian ties and imposed
said it was indefinitely postponing military drills with Georgia amid bilateral tensions.
