Category: Publications
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DSI Statement on Foreign Agent Law
Georgian Dream’s decision last week to enact the Russian-style foreign agents law, overturning President Zourabichvili’s veto, endangers the future of civil society, European Union accession, and democratic governance in Georgia. The enactment of this law not only serves to subvert the will of the Georgian people by driving Georgia towards Russia, but also puts Georgian…
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Democratic Security Institute Statement on the Proposed Russian-Style Foreign Agent Law
Civil society is the lifeblood of any free and democratic society, and this is especially true in Georgia, whose freedom and the institutions that sustain them are young and fragile. The reintroduction of the Russian-style foreign agent bill is a clear effort to strangle Georgia’s civil society and foment permanent autocracy. Democratic Security Institute joins…
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Democratic Security Online Certificate Program
Democratic Security Institute is announcing the Spring-Summer 2024 Intake for the Democratic Security Online Certificate Program!
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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,…