March of Georgians

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Alliance of Patriots

Georgian nationalists ‘block foreigners from public service hall’

by OC Media

•5 min read

A number of Georgian conservative groups have been gathering outside the Tbilisi Public Service Hall in an attempt to prevent foreigners from registering ownership of agricultural land in the country. The groups gathered for a second day on Tuesday, however, police secured a corridor for those attempting to enter the building. On Monday, they stopped some they believed were foreign citizens from entering the premises. In one instance caught on camera by On.ge on Monday, protesters preve

conservative groups

Opinion | Labelling Georgia’s far right ‘pro-Russian’ is reductionist and counterproductive

by Shota Kincha

•8 min read

Georgia’s liberal rights groups, neoliberal political parties, and their supporters in the media have consistently tried to discredit neo-nationalists by simply labelling them ‘pro-Russian’ — a misguided claim that only mirrors the opposite claim that rights groups follow an anti-Georgian ‘Soros agenda’. To address growing far-right authoritarianism in Georgia, the underlying social and economic roots of the problem need to be addressed, as well as the legacy of authoritarianism of the previ

Adjara

New Adjara head faces conservative backlash after approving Batumi mosque

by OC Media

•4 min read

A controversy over the construction of a second mosque in Batumi has resurfaced after the new head of Adjara, Tornike Rizhvadze, promised it would go ahead. Batumi’s Muslims have long complained that the city’s only current mosque is too small, but Rizhvadze faced criticism for his decision from a number of ultra-conservative groups including the March of Georgians. Rizhvadze, a member of the ruling Georgian Dream Party, vowed to greenlight the mosque before he was appointed chairperson of

Davit Dadunashvili

Saralidze calls for protests to continue after meeting with Georgian PM

by OC Media

•6 min read

Georgia’s Prime Minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili has met with two of the leading figures in anti-government protests currently being held in Tbilisi. Kvirikashvili met separately with the parents of Davit Saralidze — one of the teenagers killed in a school brawl last December — and Malkhaz Machalikashvili, the father of a 19-year-old boy killed by security forces in Pankisi. Vice Prime Minister and Interior Minister Giorgi Gakharia and a lawyer from local rights group EMC were also present

Alliance of Patriots

Georgia’s Rights Committee supports bill against ‘insulting religious feelings’

by OC Media

•3 min read

The Georgian Parliament’s Human Rights Committee is to create a working group to develop a bill against ‘insulting religious feelings’. The bill was co-authored and supported by two conservative Georgian groups. Emzar Kvitsiani, an MP from the Alliance of Patriots, a conservative party with six seats in parliament, and Zviad Tomaradze, head of Georgia’s Demographic Society XXI, a non-governmental group known for making homophobic and xenophobic statements, introduced the bill to the Human R