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News
Tskhinvali Sets Date for Assembly Polls
The Moscow-backed leader of Tskhinvali Region/South Ossetia, Anatoly Bibilov, has set June 9 as the date for “legislative elections”. Seats in the occupied region’s 34-member assembly are to be assigned through a mixed proportional-majoritarian representation. 17 mandates will be allocated proportionally under party-list contest with a seven percent electoral threshold, and…
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Analysis
Backgrounder: Georgia, Russia and Politics of Ecclesial Occupation
The Georgian Orthodox Patriarchate announced late last December that it would not rush with recognizing the autocephaly (ecclesiastical autonomy) of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. Since this went contrary to the state policy of supporting Ukraine, as well as widespread public sentiment to that effect, many Georgians have reacted with dismay. Formally, the Georgian Orthodox Church (GOC) decided to defer the question to later Synodal gatherings.…
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Interviews
David Salvo: Putin has not succeeded in upending the international order
VoA Georgian’s Eka Maghaldadze spoke with David Salvo, Deputy Director at German Marshall Fund’s Alliance for Securing Democracy, on Russia’s efforts to undermine western democracies and destabilize neighboring countries. In 2007, at the Munich Security Conference, Vladimir Putin said the existing world order was unacceptable,…
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News
Parliament Weekly: March 11-16
Bureau meeting The MPs endorsed the agenda of the March 19-22 plenary sessions at the parliamentary bureau meeting on Monday. Parliamentary Chairman Irakli Kobakhidze said – without specifying the date – that Justice Minister Tea Tsulukiani will report to the lawmakers during the plenary session. European Georgia’s proposal on setting up Parliament’s interim investigative commission to study alleged pressure on the persons affiliated with TBC…
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Interviews
Hodges: accession of West Germany into NATO is a precedent for Georgia
Lieutenant General (Retired) Ben Hodges, Pershing Chair of Strategic Studies at the Center for European Policy Analysis, told Voice of America’s Ia Meurmishvili that Georgia has nothing else left to prove to NATO in order to be invited into the Alliance. LTG Hodges also spoke about…
On 12 March 1919 the freely elected Constituent Assembly of Georgia has gathered for its first session. The eldest member of the Assembly, Social Democrat Silibistro Jibladze has delivered this inaugural address at 12:19. His speech is a great example of the political rhetoric of the time, now sadly lost, as well as the reflection on complexity and confusion of the times. “So I have…
Tamara Svanidze, associate member of INALCO Center for Research of Europe and Eurasia, presents the way in which the Georgian satire digested international news and perceived country’s relations with its neighbors, as well as the role of the various European actors who intervened in the region during this key period of change in international affairs. In the 1900s, what is now called the South Caucasus…
