Tag: Mikheil Saakashvili

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Guest:

• Nino Skvortsova

Topics:

• Political Science in Georgia
• Elections and Potential Political Pivot
• Influences on Georgian Identity
• Georgia-Armenia Relations

Episode 375 | Recorded: October 15, 2024

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Guest:

• Dr. Nikoloz Bitsadze

Topics:

• Election, Politics, and The Geopolitical Context
• Who are the Major External Influencers in Georgia’s Politics?
• Is Talk of Civilizational Catastrophe, or Rapprochement with Abkhazia/South Ossetia Election-time Populism?
• Neutrality and Georgian-Armenian Relations

Episode 370 | Recorded: September 21, 2024

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Guest:

• Dr. David Darchiashvili

Topics:

• Election and Politics, and The Geopolitical Context
• Who are the Major External Influencers in Georgia’s Politics?
• Why is the EU hell bent against the Law on “Foreign Agents”?
• Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan and Russia Relations

Episode 363 | Recorded: September 11, 2024

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Guest:

• Sopo Japaridze

Topics:

• USSR: A common Home & History
• Georgia’s Foreign Agent Bill
• Armenia-Georgian Relations

Episode 330 | Recorded: May 17, 2024

Guest:

• Johnny G. Melikian

Topics:

• On March 7, the Georgian parliament voted into law a bill that would require political actors to clarify their foreign funding sources and their activities to lobby lawmakers with such funding. This ignited large protests in Tbilisi, and on March 9 the parliament agreed to rescind the law and to release arrested opposition members. We analyze the events and the outcome.

Episode 238 | Recorded: March 15, 2023