Lela Rekhviashvili

Dec 27, 2024 | links.org.au | Ashley Smith |Ilya Budraitskis |Ia Eradze |Luka Nakhutsrishvili |Lela Rekhviashvili

First jointly published by Posle Media and Tempest. The country of Georgia, a small nation of 3.8 million people in the Caucasus, has been thrown into a profound crisis. Its people have risen up against the ruling party, Georgian Dream, over the passage of its Russa-style “foreign influence law,” homophobic anti-LGBTQ propaganda law, rigging of the recent election, and suspension of accession talks for membership in the EU.

Jun 27, 2024 | lefteast.org | Lela Rekhviashvili |Evelina Gambino

Note from LeftEast Editors:  This article was originally published at The Second Cold War Observatory (SCWO) on April 25, 2024. In the wake of the Soviet collapse, investment in mega infrastructure has been pitched as the solution to Georgia’s development. Already in the 1990s, in the face of rapid deindustrialization and armed conflicts in the region, Georgia’s political leadership started seeing the transit role of the country as a way to peace and possibly to prosperity (Gambino 2019).

May 30, 2024 | links.org.au | Lela Rekhviashvili |Luka Nakhutsrishvili |Konstantine Eristavi |Alexandra Aroshvili

First published at LeftEast. [Authors' note: We co-wrote this article at the beginning of May. On May 28, the Georgian parliament overrode the presidential veto and finally adopted the Law Against Foreign Influence.