Georgia, the Caucasus nation where Salome Zurabishvili is about to take up the office of president after her recent election victory, does not see itself as a young country, of course. And yet, in the political sense, its is a young country. The years since have been scarred by war: civil war in the 1990s, and then war with Russia in 2008. President Zurabishvili is the first woman to hold that office. In that capacity, she got to know her Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov: then, as now, the Russian Foreign Minister.

Source: Forbes December 15, 2018 12:22 UTC