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SovLab and writer Lasha Bughadze to present our joint flagship book Georgia vs Joseph Stalin at the @Book_Fair in Frankfurt on Sunday, October 19. Mr Bughadze and the project author @kandelakigiorgi will lead a discussio on "How Stalin stole 20th century from his native Georgia"

Statement on Georgian Dream regime attacks on Sovlab as well as the Embassy of France to Georgia

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SovLab staff member Lizi Basilaia is in court today, accused of “illegally blocking” Chavchavadze Avenue on Dec 17. This is part of the regime’s strategy to intimidate peaceful protesters with exorbitant fines—tactics copied from Russia and Belarus. This is not the first case/

Todat at 7pm, Sovlab is hosting a march of families of victims of Soviet repressions. Participants are asked to bring papers with names of victims and the measure of repression (execution, exile). Assembly point: Tbilisi Philharmonic Concert Hall

made no arrests even though some of the attackers whom Mr Okujava identified remained on the scene. Mr Okujava proactively filed a complaint with the Police and requested to be interviewed. We call on our partners and election observation missions accredited in Georgia

On the day of signing of the Memorandum to create the Institute of National Memory, Badri Okujava a SovLab researcher and an activist was attacked and beaten near our office by individuals linked with Georgian Dream. Despite arriving promptly on the scene, the Police

🧵In a resolution titled "On Democratic Backsliding and Threats to Political Pluralism in Georgia," the European Parliament addressed the severe restrictions imposed by the Georgian government on access to Soviet-era archives. Article 24 of the resolution states:

On this day in 2008, Russia launched full-scale invasion of Georgia. Its propaganda blamed the victim, but not for the first time. Soviet propaganda blamed Georgia for getting invaded by Soviet Russia in 1921 too (Sound on) youtube.com/watch?v=WddFIUEm…

Sovlab's @kandelakigiorgi is featured in @netflix new documentary series Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War, explaining, amongst others, Soviet origins of the current Russian regime and its worldview.