Michael Roth will soon leave politics. The Chair of the German Bundestag’s Foreign Affairs Committee, Roth has been a steadfast…
The EU’s decision to suspend visa-free travel for diplomatic and service passport holders while maintaining it for ordinary Georgian citizens…
“From February 1, 2025, your administrative contract will be terminated,” Moris Baramia, head of one of the key departments at…
Georgia is not and has never been a fully consolidated institutional democracy. The separation of powers remains blurry, the system…
New year, new madness, and we don’t necessarily mean Georgia. The arrival of 2025 just seems to add new horrors…
The protests across Georgia have been going on for well over a month now taking various creative forms, and involving…
Georgia is not and has never been a fully consolidated institutional democracy. The separation of powers remains blurry, the system of checks and balances malfunctions, and the changes of power through the ballot box are the exception rather than the norm. Ambassador Natalie Sabanadze is a Senior Research Fellow at the Russia and Eurasia Programme of Chatham House. From 2013 to 2021, she served as head of the Georgian mission to the EU and Ambassador of Georgia to the Kingdom of Belgium and Grand Duchy…
Michael Roth will soon leave politics. The Chair of the German Bundestag’s Foreign Affairs Committee, Roth has been a steadfast advocate for Georgia’s European future. He is now on his last official visit to the country and met with opposition leaders, media representatives, and members of civil society, and also stood again with the people protesting on Rustaveli Avenue against GD government’s U-turn on EU integration. Since our last interview with him in September, Civil.ge‘s Gigi Kobakhidze took another opportunity to sit down with the…
For years, ethnic Georgians from the town of Gali and its district, in occupied Abkhazia have faced obstacles to voting in Georgian elections, and the recent parliamentary elections on 26 October were no exception. Gali is the district populated by ethnic Georgians and is adjacent to the occupation line that separates Abkhazia from the rest of Georgia. About the author: Lela Jobava is a conflict researcher and journalist Georgia’s recent parliamentary elections, held on October 26, have drawn considerable international attention. Some foreign governments, like…