Shota Utiashvili Researcher at the Rondeli Foundation Introduction The year of 2016 went by without much fuss with respect to the occupied territories of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. The situation along the Administrative Boundary Line with South Ossetia remained largely stable even though the movement of the Line of Occupation and the installation of barbed wires, as well as routine detentions of local community members did flare up tensions. A question of so called referendum stirred much ado in Tskhinvali at the onset of 2016 and the Geneva talks remained on the agenda but without yielding considerable progress. Presidential elections…
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On the 3rd of Fabruary at 19:00 film screening “SEE YOU IN CHECHNYA” was held at Fabrika – Impact Hub Tbilisi “SEE YOU IN CHECHNYA” is a movie by the director Alexander Kvatashidze. He worked on the movie for 15 years. At the age of 22, he covered the war in Chechnya as a photographer. The idea of shooting a movie was created in 2000, after the murder of the Italian war journalist Antonio Russou in Georgia. The movie depicts the stories of 6 war journalists, whom the director met during the war in Chechnya. Each journalist tells their reasons…
Revaz Koiava, Researcher at Caucasian House 2016 was a year of many “twists and turns” for the South Caucasus countries. However, there were no revolutionary changes in the region and the status-quo that had been in place for several years largely held, unshattered even by the “four-day” war in Nagorny Karabakh in April. It would be fair to say that all three South Caucasus states managed, with more or less success, to cope with the problems and challenges they faced in 2016. The given article presents a brief overview of the last year’s major events and developments in South…
On December 20-22, by invitation of Caucasian House, Professor George Derlugyan, who works on historical sociology in the USA, delivered three public lectures in Tbilisi. During his lectures professor talked about historical developments of Russia and Caucasus. Besides Mr. Derlugyan made a comparative analysis of the different models of Modernization process that have been existing in different times in various parts of the world. In addition to that, he focused on the various stages of Modernization that took place in Russia and analyzed what impact this process had on its neighboring countries including Georgia; Professor discussed the architecture of the…
On December 20-22, by invitation of Caucasian House, Professor George Derlugyan, who works on historical sociology in the USA, delivered three public lectures in Tbilisi. During his lectures professor talked about historical developments of Russia and Caucasus. Besides Mr. Derlugyan made a comparative analysis of the different models of Modernization process that have been existing in different times in various parts of the world. In addition to that, he focused on the various stages of Modernization that took place in Russia and analyzed what impact this process had on its neighboring countries including Georgia; Professor discussed the architecture of the…
Tornike Chivadze Member of editorial board at the analytical portal european.ge Introduction Today it is common to ascertain that unlike most of post-socialist countries Russia has chosen a non-Western path towards development after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Many tend to forget that the Russian elite backed up by the Western support, embarked on reforms based on the Washington Consensus. These very reforms have contributed to shaping the logics and nature of Russia’s capitalist development as of today. Modern Russia, constructed as a result of neo-liberal reforms is very unlikely to fall under a core countries category (according…
On December 17th, at 13:00, Marneuli Democratic Engagement Center will host a public discussion organized by Caucasian House and Institute for the Study of Nationalism and Conflicts. Topic of the discussion is the following: “Challenges of regional security and conflicts in South Caucasus” Speakers: Archil Gegeshidze – Political analyst Beka Bajelidze – Head of Caucasus program at IWPR Leyla Suleymanova – Chairperson of the Azerbaijani Women Association Discussion will focus on Georgian-Abkhaz, Georgian-South Ossetian and Nagorno-Karabakh conflicts, which will be analyzed from the regional security perspective. Address: Democratic Engagement Center, Giorgadze str 1, Marneuli Attendance is free! Discussion is organized in…
On December 20-22, by invitation of Caucasian House, Professor George Derlugyan, who works on historical sociology in the USA, delivers three public lectures. During his lectures professor will talk about historical developments of Russia and Caucasus. Besides Mr. Derlugyan will make a comparative analysis of the different models of Modernization process that have been existing in different times in various parts of the world. In addition to that, he will focus on the various stages of Modernization that took place in Russia and what impact this process had on its neighboring countries including Georgia; Professor will discuss the architecture of…
Revaz Koiava a research fellow, Caucasus House On November 8, 2016, Donald Trump was elected the 45th President of United States of America. A majority believed that they would never hear these words. But Trump defied pollsters, nearly all of which predicted a Clinton victory, and won the vote on a wave of widespread discontent among Ameriсan voters in rural and Rust Belt[1] states. These voters felt forgotten and abandoned by the political establishment of their country. What does Trump’s victory mean in pratical terms? To begin with, everybody is hopeful that things are not as bad as they seem and…
There are far too many governmental structures working on the ethno-political conflicts. This had led to an obvious overlap of functions, complicated coordination and increased competition within these agencies. This, in turn, has a negative impact on the implementation of their objectives. Visualization demonstrates the budgets of the organizations working on conflicts and the mitigation of their effects: annual spending on the conflicts by these agencies on salaries, administrative costs and projects. Annually spending of these organizations equal: 88.586.000 GEL This sum does not include organizations whose work is not limited to the conflicts. Additionally, each month up to 10.5 million…
