Grigol Vashadze is his sixth foreign minister in five years.Only a small inner circle of hawkish figures, including Vano Merabishvili, the interior minister, remains untouched.

• 格鲁吉亚核心集团中只有少数鹰派人物没有被洗牌行为所触及，例如内政部长梅拉毕维里。