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Federalists (Georgia)
The Federalists () is a classical liberal and pro-Western political party in Georgia, founded by former members of European Georgia. Key figures in the party include Giga Bokeria, who has been serving as party chairman since 2024 and is a former Secretary of the National Security Council of Georgia and Tamar Chergoleishvili, the founder of the online magazine Tabula. History On 1 August 2024, a majority of the European Georgia electoral list, chosen during the party's internal primary election, left the party, including key figures Giga Bokeria and Tamar Chergoleishvili. The split arose from disagreements with other key figures, Gigi Tsereteli and Akaki Bobokhidze over the primary results. Later, Chergoleishvili and Bokeria separately announced that the departing members would be forming a new political party. On August 15, the members who had recently left their previous party held a presentation to announce the upcoming founding of a new political party called the Federa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giga Bokeria
Giorgi (Giga) Bokeria ( ka, გიორგი (გიგა) ბოკერია, born 20 April 1972 in Tbilisi) is a Georgian politician and was the secretary of the National Security Council of Georgia from November 2010 to November 2013. Career From 1989 to 1995, Bokeria was one of the leaders of various student movements, in particular an active member of the Press Club of Tbilisi State University. In 1992, he began working as a journalist, in the newspaper ''7 Dge'' (7 Days), as a political editor of newspaper ''Mimomkhilveli'' (''Observer'') – 1992–1993, journalist with the ''Pikis Saati'' (''Rush Hour'') program of ''Channel 1'' of State Radio −1993, journalist of Radio Liberty – 1994, political editor of newspaper ''Argumenti'' (Argument) – 1995–1996, ''Akcentebi'' (Accents) talk show host of Rustavi 2 broadcasting company – 1996. In 1996, together with Levan Ramishvili, Bokeria co-founded the Liberty Institute, a Georgian non-profit, non-partisan, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tabula (magazine)
Tabula ( ka, ტაბულა, tr) is a Georgian online news platform and magazine published by the Civic Education Foundation since 2010, follows a clear editorial policy grounded in a right-libertarian Right-libertarianism,Rothbard, Murray (1 March 1971)"The Left and Right Within Libertarianism". ''WIN: Peace and Freedom Through Nonviolent Action''. 7 (4): 6–10. Retrieved 14 January 2020.Goodway, David (2006). '' Anarchist Seeds Beneath the ... worldview. The current editor-in-chief of Tabula is Levan Sutidze. Tabula covers number of topics including local politics, business and society issues. The official website provides daily blogs and news updates covering various topics. History The Civic Education Foundation, founded in 2010, launched Tabula as one of its key projects. The magazine was published weekly from March 15, 2010, and switched to a monthly format from November 1, 2013, until September 2014. Additionally, an English-language version of Tabula has bee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ethnic Cleansing Of Georgians In Abkhazia
The ethnic cleansing of Georgians in Abkhazia, also known in Georgia as the genocide of Georgians in Abkhazia ( ka, ქართველთა გენოციდი აფხაზეთში, tr), was the ethnic cleansing, massacres, and forced mass expulsion of thousands of ethnic Georgians living in Abkhazia during both the 1992–1993 and 1998 Wars of Abkhazia by Abkhaz separatists and their allies. Armenians, Greeks, Russians, and opposing Abkhazians were also killed. In 2007, 267,345 Georgian civilians were registered as internally displaced persons (IDPs). The ethnic cleansing and massacres of Georgians have been officially recognized by Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) conventions in 1994, 1996, and 1999 during the Budapest, Lisbon, and Istanbul summits, which condemned the "perpetrators of war crimes committed during the conflict." On 15 May 2008, the United Nations General Assembly adopted (by 14 votes to 11, with 105 abstentions) res ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
War In Abkhazia (1992–1993)
The War in Abkhazia was fought between Georgian government and paramilitary forces, and a coalition of Abkhaz separatist forces and North Caucasian militants between 1992 and 1993. Ethnic Georgians who lived in Abkhazia fought largely on the side of Georgian government forces. Ethnic Armenians, who formed the Bagramyan Battalion and Russians within Abkhazia's population largely supported the AbkhaziansAbkhazia Today. ''The Europe Report N°176, 15 September 2006, page 5''. Retrieved on 30 May 2007. ''Free registration needed to view full report'' and many fought on their side. The separatists received support from thousands of |
Bucha Massacre
The Bucha massacre (; ) was the mass murder of Ukrainian civilians and prisoners of war by the Russian Armed Forces during the fight for and occupation of the city of Bucha as part of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Photographic and video evidence of the massacre emerged on 1 April 2022, after Russian forces withdrew from the city. Verbal reports had been emerging since early March. According to local authorities, 458 bodies have been recovered from the town, including nine children under the age of 18. Among the victims, 419 people were killed with weapons and 39 appeared to have died of natural causes, possibly related to the occupation. A memorial wall was installed in Bucha with 501 names of killed residents. The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights documented the unlawful killings, including summary executions, of at least 73 civilians in Bucha. Photos showed corpses of civilians, lined up with their hands bound behind their backs, shot at close range. An inquiry by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Western Values
Western values refer to the set of social, political, and philosophical principles that have developed in the Western world, particularly in Europe and North America, and have influenced global culture, governance, and ethics. These values, while diverse and evolving, are rooted in traditions from Greco-Roman antiquity, Judeo-Christian ethics, the Enlightenment, and modern liberal democracy. They generally posit the importance of an individualistic culture, and since the 20th century they have become marked by other sociopolitical aspects of the West, such as free-market capitalism, feminism, liberal democracy, the scientific method, and the legacy of the sexual revolution. Historical origins Western values have been shaped by a variety of historical influences: * Ancient Greece and Rome: The foundations of democracy, republican governance, and philosophy were laid by thinkers such as Socrates, Plato, Aristotle and institutions like the Roman Republic. Ideas such as citizensh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
European Values
European values are the norms and values that Europeans are said to have in common, and which transcend national or state identities. In addition to helping promote European integration, this doctrine also provides the basis for analyses that characterise European politics, economics, and society as reflecting a shared identity; it is often associated with human rights, electoral democracy, and rule of law. Overview Especially in France, "the European idea" (''l'idée d'Europe'') is associated with political values derived from the Age of Enlightenment and the republicanism growing out of the French Revolution and the Revolutions of 1848 rather than with personal or individual identity formed by culture or ethnicity (let alone a "pan-European" construct including those areas of the continent never affected by 18th-century rationalism or Republicanism). The phrase "European values" arises as a political neologism in the 1980s in the context of the project of European integration ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Decentralization
Decentralization or decentralisation is the process by which the activities of an organization, particularly those related to planning and decision-making, are distributed or delegated away from a central, authoritative location or group and given to smaller factions within it. Concepts of decentralization have been applied to group dynamics and management science in private businesses and organizations, political science, law and public administration, technology, economics and money. History The word "''centralisation''" came into use in France in 1794 as the post-French Revolution, Revolution French Directory leadership created a new government structure. The word "''décentralisation''" came into usage in the 1820s. "Centralization" entered written English in the first third of the 1800s; mentions of decentralization also first appear during those years. In the mid-1800s Alexis de Tocqueville, Tocqueville would write that the French Revolution began with "a push towards ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georgian Dream
Georgian Dream – Democratic Georgia (GD), also colloquially known as the Kotsebi, is a Conservatism, conservative and populism, populist List of political parties in Georgia (country), political party in Georgia (country), Georgia, which has ruled the country since 2012. Bidzina Ivanishvili, who founded the party on 19 April 2012 and is widely considered to be the ''de facto'' leader of Georgia, serves as the party's honorary chairman. The party's electoral number is 41. The party won the 2012 Georgian parliamentary election, general election in 2012, being part of an eclectic coalition also called Georgian Dream (political coalition), Georgian Dream, which included both Western world, pro-Western Liberalism, liberal and List of anti-NATO parties and organizations, anti-NATO Nationalism, nationalist parties. Subsequently, the Georgian Dream party (independent of its coalition) also won all subsequent general elections and is a ruling party of the country. Georgian Dream orig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2025 Georgian Local Elections
5 (five) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number, and cardinal number, following 4 and preceding 6, and is a prime number. Humans, and many other animals, have 5 digits on their limbs. Mathematics 5 is a Fermat prime, a Mersenne prime exponent, as well as a Fibonacci number. 5 is the first congruent number, as well as the length of the hypotenuse of the smallest integer-sided right triangle, making part of the smallest Pythagorean triple ( 3, 4, 5). 5 is the first safe prime and the first good prime. 11 forms the first pair of sexy primes with 5. 5 is the second Fermat prime, of a total of five known Fermat primes. 5 is also the first of three known Wilson primes (5, 13, 563). Geometry A shape with five sides is called a pentagon. The pentagon is the first regular polygon that does not tile the plane with copies of itself. It is the largest face any of the five regular three-dimensional regular Platonic solid can have. A conic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2024 Georgian Parliamentary Election
Parliamentary elections were held in Georgia (country), Georgia on 26 October 2024. The elections were held under the rules passed in 2017 through the constitutional amendments which shifted the electoral system towards a fully proportional representation with a 5% electoral threshold. The ruling Georgian Dream (GD) party sought to win its fourth term in office. Its founder, Bidzina Ivanishvili—an influential Business oligarch, oligarch and former prime minister often regarded as the country's ''éminence grise'' following his official departure from politics in 2021—returned to politics several months before the polls to lead GD in the elections. In its campaign, the Georgian Dream promoted the Global War Party conspiracy theory, promising "safeguarding peace" through a "pragmatic policy" with Russia amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine, war in Ukraine. It repeatedly threatened to outlaw most major opposition parties, advocated for adopting the "Georgian LGBT propaganda l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georgian Public Broadcaster
Georgian Public Broadcaster ( ka, საქართველოს საზოგადოებრივი მაუწყებელი, ) is the national public broadcaster of Georgia. History It started broadcasting radio in 1925, and Georgian TV started broadcasting in 1956. Today, 85% of the Georgian population receive the First Channel, and 55% receive the Second Channel. Georgian TV's programmes are also received by satellite and over the Internet in a number of European and Asian countries. The adoption of Law on Broadcasting in 2004, started the process of transformation of Georgian TV from being a state broadcaster into a public broadcaster. It is required by law to “provide accurate and up-to-date information that is free from political and commercial bias” and “to address the needs and interests of the larger Georgian society through diversity of programs and viewpoints”. In 2005, the Georgian Parliament elected a Board of Governors, composed of nine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
