Category: Publications
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DSI statement on the situation in Nagorno Karabakh
DSI observes the developing situation in Nagorno Karabakh with urgent alarm. Our principles mean that we stand for democracy and human rights, and therefore against mass repression and ethnic cleansing. Unfortunately, as ethnic Armenians are forced to flee their ancestral homeland in Nagorno Karabakh, we are witnessing ethnic cleansing occurring in real time.
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DSI director Alex Scrivener: “Direct connection between gender equality and security”
Speaking to Euronews, DSI’s director, Alex Scrivener, has underlined the importance of democratic values and gender equality for security of democracies in the Black Sea region such as Ukraine and Georgia.
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DSI statement on the Georgian foreign agent law
Democratic Security Institute stands with all of our colleagues in Georgian civil society against the so-called “foreign agent law” currently being passed in the Georgian Parliament. It constitutes an existential threat to Georgia’s democracy and everything the country has achieved since independence. Given almost all Georgian civil society organisations are funded significantly by foreign donors, […]
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Georgia’s Karabakh conundrum
By Alexander Scrivener As the death toll mounts among both Armenians and Azeris in the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh, the situation in nearby Georgia feels a million miles away. In the throes of both a parliamentary election and a growing Covid-19 epidemic, the fact that what is now a full-blown war is happening next door […]
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The Kremlin’s fake news machine swirl COVID-19 conspiracies
Tornike Zurabashvili To quell the impact of pro-Kremlin disinformation campaigns ahead of the milestone October parliamentary elections, the government, Facebook and civil society organisations will need to take more proactive measures. Georgia has been particularly affected by Russian information operations, especially in light of its troubled political relations with Moscow and the country’s generally unabated […]
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Disinformation and other tools of antidemocratic influence: an Armenian outlook in the EU and Eastern Partnership context
By Armen Grigoryan Growing Chinese influence observed by Freedom House The recent Freedom House Nations in Transit 2020 report pays particular attention to the growing Chinese influence in a number of countries in Central and Eastern Europe, and in Central Asia. The report notes: ‘While China’s international engagement is often less directly confrontational than Russia’s, […]
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‘Leaders for rent’ is no answer
Max Fras explains why Ukraine and Georgia need to nurture homegrown talent rather than import politicians
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Undercurrents: Defining Pandemics, and Mikheil Saakashvili’s Ukrainian Comeback
This week, Ben speaks to Charles Clift from the Global Health Programme about the WHO’s communication challenges around the coronavirus. They explore how pandemics are defined, and the implications of when the announcement was made. Then Agnes meets Max Fras to find out how former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili has gained political office in Ukraine.
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In Georgia, the opposition may become the next COVID casualty
By Max Fras While Georgia’s lockdown enjoys support at home and abroad, the public health crisis has had a negative impact on the country’s political pluralism and opposition. As every Caucasus democratisation conference speaker is likely to remind you, democracy is what happens between the elections as much as what happens during them.