Ia Meurmishvili: Ambassador Hall Hall, thank you very much for being with us today. What do you think is happening in Georgia? How do you see the events unfolding in the recent weeks and months from here? Alexandra Hall Hall: Well, first of all, thank…
By Levan Tsutskiridze, Executive Director of Eastern European Center for Multi-party Democracy (EECMD) After direct mediation by senior U.S. and EU diplomats, sustained pressure from civil society and surprisingly long-lasting opposition unity, the Georgian political parties said they have reached the agreement on electoral system for 2020 parliamentary elections. The deal, reached last Sunday, unblocks the way out of the political stalemate. It also, hopefully,…
Tornike Zurabashvili is a former editor of Civil.ge and a fellow at the Eurasia Democratic Security Network (EDSN). The past few months have been eventful in Abkhazia, a region of about 200,000 inhabitants located on the north-western edge of Georgia, and controlled – militarily, politically and economically – by the Russian Federation. The long sequence of events started in September, when Raul Khajimba, the region’s…
More than three days have passed since Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia placed Marneuli and Bolnisi Municipalities under lockdown to prevent further spread of coronavirus. On March 23, the government shut down two municipalities on the grounds that Georgian healthcare authorities could not track the…
