2020–2021 Georgian Political Crisis
The 2020–2021 Georgian political crisis started after the 2020 Georgian parliamentary election. The opposition accused the ruling Georgian Dream party of election fraud and did not recognize the results. They announced protests and parliamentary boycott. The opposition held a rally on November 1, a day after the elections, and called for snap parliamentary elections. On November 2, the eight opposition parties refused to enter parliament. In February 2021, Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia resigned over plans to arrest opposition leader Nika Melia, which occurred on 23 February. Protests On November 1, a day after the parliamentary elections, the opposition parties and civil society organizations accused Central Election Commission of falsifying the election results in favour of the ruling Georgian Dream party and started protesting the alleged election fraud. During the protests the United National Movement majoritarian candidate for Gldani constituency Nika Melia took off ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Georgia (country)
Georgia (, ; ) is a transcontinental country at the intersection of Eastern Europe and Western Asia. It is part of the Caucasus region, bounded by the Black Sea to the west, by Russia to the north and northeast, by Turkey to the southwest, by Armenia to the south, and by Azerbaijan to the southeast. The country covers an area of , and has a population of 3.7 million people. Tbilisi is its capital as well as its largest city, home to roughly a third of the Georgian population. During the classical era, several independent kingdoms became established in what is now Georgia, such as Colchis and Iberia. In the early 4th century, ethnic Georgians officially adopted Christianity, which contributed to the spiritual and political unification of the early Georgian states. In the Middle Ages, the unified Kingdom of Georgia emerged and reached its Golden Age during the reign of King David IV and Queen Tamar in the 12th and early 13th centuries. Thereafter, the kingdom decl ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Democratic Movement – United Georgia
Democratic Movement – United Georgia ( ka, დემოკრატიული მოძრაობა — ერთიანი საქართველო, ''demokratiuli modzraoba — ert’iani Sak’art’velo'') is a political party in Georgia chaired by Nino Burjanadze; it was founded on 24 November 2008. The secretary-general of the party is Vakhtang Kolbaia. Until 2012, the party was in opposition to the government led by Mikheil Saakashvili and his United National Movement. The party favoured closer ties with both Russia and the European Union while maintaining and expanding many of the government's economic and social reform initiatives. It also claimed to seek greater political freedom above and beyond what Saakashvili's administration claimed to provide. It vehemently opposed what it characterised as authoritarianism on the part of Saakashvili's government. The government accused the opposition of plotting a coup in the wake of the 2008 South Ossetia war. In ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Grigol Vashadze
Grigol Vashadze ( ka, გრიგოლ ვაშაძე, also transliterated as Gregory Vashadze) (born July 19, 1958) is a Georgia (country), Georgian politician, diplomat and a former member of the Cabinet of Georgia in the capacity of the Minister for Culture, Heritage Preservation and Sport (2008) and Minister for Foreign Affairs of Georgia (2008–2012). Early career Born in Tbilisi, Vashadze graduated from Moscow State Institute of International Relations in 1981 and worked for the Soviet Union, Soviet Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, simultaneously doing his postgraduate training in international law at the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Soviet Diplomatic Academy. At one time, he was a member of Soviet diplomatic team at the START I talks with the United States. He worked in Department of International Organizations and Department of Cosmos and Nuclear Weapons of Ministry of Foreign Affa ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Nika Melia
Nika may refer to: Surname * Ansi Nika (born 1990), Albanian footballer * Lelo Nika (born 1969), Serbian and Romanian Romani accordionist * Rakitina Nika, pen name of science fiction and fantasy writer Ludmila Bogdanova (born 1963) Other uses * ''Nika'' (film), a Russian biographical drama film * Nika (given name) ** Nika Shakarami, Iranian woman killed in Mahsa Amini protests * Nike (mythology), or Nika, the goddess of victory * Nika Award, a Russian film award * Nika District, Paktika Province, Afghanistan * NIKA Racing, a Swedish car racing team * AS Nika, a football club in Kisangani, Democratic Republic of Congo * Neka, also known as Nīkā, a city in Mazandaran Province, Iran See also * Nika riots The Nika riots ( el, Στάσις τοῦ Νίκα, translit=Stásis toû Níka), Nika revolt or Nika sedition took place against Byzantine Emperor Justinian I in Constantinople over the course of a week in 532 AD. They are often regarded as the ..., riots that took place over ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Georgian Dream
Georgian Dream – Democratic Georgia ( ka, ქართული ოცნება – დემოკრატიული საქართველო, ''Kartuli ocneba – Demok’rat’iuli Sakartvelo'') is a social democratic political party in Georgia. The party was established on 19 April 2012 by the billionaire businessman Bidzina Ivanishvili. Georgian Dream and its partners in a coalition also named Georgian Dream won majorities in the 2012, 2016, and 2020 general elections. The party is currently led by Irakli Kobakhidze as Party Chairman and Irakli Garibashvili as Prime Minister. History The party evolved from the public movement Georgian Dream, launched by Ivanishvili as a platform for his political activities in December 2011. Since Ivanishvili was not a Georgian citizen at the moment of the party's inaugural session, the lawyer Manana Kobakhidze was elected as an interim, nominal chairman of the Georgian Dream – Democratic Georgia. The party also includes ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Election Administration Of Georgia
The Election Administration of Georgia ( ka, საქართველოს საარჩევნო ადმინისტრაცია, tr; SSA) is a permanent independent non-partisan body responsible for organizing national elections and referendums in Georgia in accordance with the Constitution of Georgia and the Electoral Code of Georgia. Structure The Election Administration of Georgia consists of the Central Election Commission, the Supreme Election Commission of Adjara, and the District and Precinct Election Commissions. * The Central Election Commission (CEC, Georgian: ცენტრალური საარჩევნო კომისია, ცესკო), the supreme body of the Administration, which manages and controls all levels of election commissions. The CEC has 13 members, including a Chairperson, who serve for a five-year term. Five members are elected by the Parliament of Georgia on the recommendation of the President of Georgia, while th ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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State Security Service Of Georgia
The State Security Service of Georgia (SSSG) ( ka, სახელმწიფო უსაფრთხოების სამსახური, SUS) is a state intelligence agency of Georgia, which covers a broad spectrum of tasks to preserve national security in accordance to state legislature and relevant laws. Its missions are to protect the constitutional order, sovereignty, territorial integrity and military potential of Georgia from illegal acts of special services and individuals of foreign countries; to prevent violent and unconstitutional change of order and state authority. Further it is to ensure economic security and fight terrorism on national and international level, transnational organized crime and international crime as well as carry out measures towards prevention, detection and suppression of corruption. The agency is also responsible for protecting state secrets. The newly established independent agency is a former subordinate branch of the Ministry of Inte ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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National Security Council (Georgia)
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Ministry Of Internal Affairs (Georgia)
The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia ( ka, საქართველოს შინაგან საქმეთა სამინისტრო), abbreviated MIA (''შსს''), is the highest state law enforcement agency of Georgia, the head of which (Minister) is a member of the Government. The Ministry is accountable to the Government and fulfills the tasks imposed on it by the Prime Minister. Vakhtang Gomelauri is the current Minister of Internal Affairs. The Ministry's main office is in Tbilisi. History After gaining independence on May 26, 1918 on the National Council meeting the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia was formed. Its main tasks included fighting counter-revolutionary rallies and Bolshevik propaganda, combating embezzlement of public funds, etc. On February 25, 1921, with the help of Russia, the Georgian Bolsheviks overthrew the legitimate Menshevik government of Georgia. Since this day, the independent Ministry of Internal Affairs w ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Government Of Georgia (country)
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Georgian March
The Georgian March ( ka, ქართული მარში, ''Kartuli marshi'', GM) is a national-conservative political party and social movement in Georgia. It is led by Sandro Bregadze. The party is primarily known for street protests as well as its opposition to LGBT rights and immigration. Georgian March was formed as a social movement in July 2017 for the purpose of furthering anti-immigration legislation. It became a political party in July 2020 and run in the 2020 Georgian parliamentary election Parliamentary elections were held in Georgia on 31 October and 21 November 2020 to elect the 150 members of Parliament. The ruling Georgian Dream party led by Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia won re-election for a third term in office, making it th .... Electoral performance References 2016 establishments in Georgia (country) Anti-immigration politics in Europe Anti-Islam political parties in Europe Conservative parties in Georgia (country) Nationalist parties in Ge ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Christian-Democratic Movement (Georgia)
The Christian-Democratic Movement ( ka, ქრისტიანულ-დემოკრატიული მოძრაობა, ''k’ristianul-demokratiuli modzraoba'', KDM) is a socially conservative Christian-democratic political party in Georgia, founded in February 2008 and led by Giorgi Targamadze, formerly an Imedi TV anchor who had once been a Member of the Parliament of Georgia and a close ally of Aslan Abashidze, then a regional leader of Adjara. Former Imedi TV journalists Magda Anikashvili and Giorgi Akhvlediani and former Imedi producer Levan Vepkhvadze, all of whom left the station in January 2008, and one of the leading figures in the party Nika Laliashvili also joined the party. Among its policies is a commitment to making Orthodox Christianity the state religion of Georgia. At the May 21, 2008 Georgian legislative election, the party was one of several opposition parties to gain seats in Parliament. However the opposition parties as a whole had such small re ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |