Soviet Past Research Laboratory (Sovlab) is a think-tank researching Soviet totalitarian past and countering its weaponization by the Kremlin disinfo
Tbilisi, Georgia
Joined June 2011
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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"
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1/2 Excellent tour by @SovLab of sites in central #Tbilisi depicting the Soviet Union's occupation & oppression of 🇬🇪 - with colleagues from @usingeo, @LTEmbassyGe & @PLinGEORGIA. Before anyone freaks out, we talked only about this brutal period of history.
I recommend this tour. – at Georgia
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disgraceful spectacle of massive & multi-day GD / Imedi attacks on French Ambassador @Sherzag for... supporting the good work of @SovLab research on the Soviet past, and pictured with some of Tbilisi's finest people here.
This is done to try and cow all embassies & donors into submission, to vilify research into Soviet crimes, and to repress all civil society, also with attack on PEN Georgia ( @pen_int ).
Attempt specifically to tarnish ambos at home also, as GD has done with previous ambassadors. All the more reason to support them for standing up and being willing to engage! Merci pour vos efforts courageux!
Sovlab's Irakli Khvadagiani and Giorgi Kandelaki are reading a lecture about the Holodomor, ganocide of the Ukrainian people by the Soviet totalitarian regime to students outside the Tbilisi State University
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.@SovLab is currently holding a protest lecture outside of the Tbilisi State University where students are camped out. The topic is the Holodomor: the genocide of the Ukrainian people.
Speakers are Irakli Khvadagiani (right) and @kandelakigiorgi (left).
#GeorgiaProtests
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So @SovLab does amazing work trying to reclaim Georgian history from Moscow’s erasure/manipulation
It says an awful lot that in “Georgian Dream’s” Georgia, this work is villainized
Every former captive nation deserves its own narrative sovereignty, and a govt that embraces it
to closely monitor the incident as impunity for violence against members of civil society has remained a key concern since protests this Spring. END
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
SovLab Initiates Memorandum on Creation of Institute of National Memory of Georgia to include lustration, memorialization of memory cites and full re-opening Soviet-era archives now closed civil.ge/?p=628951 via @CivilGe Three opposition blocks sign the memorandum
Soviet history, as part of its war of aggression against Ukraine and its military threats against other countries; regrets the growing cult of Stalin and the related increase in Soviet nostalgia in Georgia, supported by the ruling government, which