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Georgian March leader Sandro Bregadze. Photo: Luka Pertaia/OC Media.

2020 Georgian Parliamentary Elections

Georgian March to run in October parliamentary elections

by OC Media

•3 min read

Ultraconservative group Georgian March plans to register as a political party and compete in October’s parliamentary elections, the group’s leader, Sandro Bregadze, has confirmed to OC Media. The story was first reported on Tuesday by Georgian news site Prime Time. Bregadze declined to comment on who he expected to join the party or whether they intended to ally with conservative opposition group the Alliance of Patriots, conservative campaigner Levan Vasadze, or others. ‘We are an indepe

Georgia

Georgian rights activist’s murder was ‘a hate crime’

by OC Media

•4 min read

Two Georgian rights groups have called on the Prosecutor’s Office to investigate the murder of a 25-year-old human rights activist outside a bar in Tbilisi as a possibly hate-motivated crime. The Tbilisi-based Human Rights Centre (HRIDC) and the Centre for Participation and Development (CPD) said the fatal stabbing of Vitali Safarov on 30 September may have been based on ‘xenophobic grounds’. Safarov, a Georgian raised in Tbilisi who had Jewish and Yazidi roots, worked as a programme mana

Georgia

Leaders of Tbilisi far-right march threaten woman with gang rape

by OC Media

•2 min read

Police in Georgia have opened an investigation into organisers of the recent far-right March in Tbilisi, after a number of them threatened a woman who criticised their movement with rape. Tatia Dolidze, a former Georgian Youth Delegate at the UN, was met with threats of sexual violence and gang rape on Facebook on 17 July, after criticising the organisers and attendees of the xenophobic, ethno-nationalist demonstration. Gia Korkotashvili, a leading figure of the March, Mikheil Amisulas

March of Georgians (Luka Pertaia/OC Media)

Analysis

Who was in and who was out in Tbilisi’s far-right March of Georgians [Analysis]

by Volodymyr Soboliev

•6 min read

Hundreds took to the streets in Tbilisi on 14 July, in a xenophobic, ethno-nationalist rally. The ‘March of Georgians’ railed against ‘illegal immigrants’, meaning anyone not Christian and white. But some on the far-right dissented against pro-Russian sentiments within the movement. Participants started to gather from 19:00 at a school on Tbilisi’s Aghmashenebeli Avenue. Aghmashenebeli, a central street with an array of restaurants serving a variety of national cuisines provided a potent

Feature Stories

East wind: Central Asian migration to Kabardino-Balkaria

by Volodymyr Soboliev

•7 min read

Young people from Kabardino-Balkaria have increasingly been leaving in droves. They move in search of better salaries and living conditions. In their place, more and more foreign labour migrants are arriving, but not all of them are welcomed with open arms. Labour migration in Kabardino-Balkaria has two stable trends: an outflow of indigenous people of reproductive age, to Stavropol and Krasnodar Krai, Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Europe, and Canada, and the growth of the Asian community, m