Friday, December 12, 2025

Georgia’s Magna Carta

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Davit Usupashvili is Speaker of the Georgian Parliament.

Shakespeare would no doubt concur that democracy has an element of drama. In this drama, a constitution may be likened to a play, minus the actors. Setting the scene, a constitution lays out the notion of a state, like the preamble of a play. Articulating the script,

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Dances with a bear

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(DF Watch.)

The lukewarm Eastern Partnership Summit in Riga further outlined the value of Georgia’s two most important interconnected strategic goals: transforming the country into a modern European state and its European perspective of joining the EU.

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Alexandre (Alika) Rondeli, in memoriam

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Alexander Rondeli

Alexandre Rondeli (Alika for most of his Georgian friends and colleagues) was a charming and talented man, a close friend, a consul, a strategic ally, from the category of “usual suspects”, and, at times, a political opponent. Most of the people who dealt with him called him a “Wise Man of the Caucasus,” at times because he

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Freezing the Kremlin's policy

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Lasha Tughushi is founder of DFWatch, PhD and chair of Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum – Georgian National Platform.

How Europe should respond to Putin at the Riga Summit

Against the backdrop of a rain of bullets, and the rumble of tanks and cannons, Europe is preparing for the Riga Summit in May. Expectations are already low, but one likely positive decision is visa liberalization

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Georgia’s labor code still favors employers

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Sarah Delys is a criminologist working for Human Rights Education and Monitoring Centre in Tbilisi.

Last week hundreds of train workers went on strike after negotiations to improve working conditions and raise salaries failed. The strikers demand overtime compensation, new salary rules and a 13th month salary payment [1].

Leaders of the trade union say the railway

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Domestic violence is the leading cause of injury to women

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Sarah Delys is a criminologist working for Human Rights Education and Monitoring Centre in Tbilisi.

Two weeks ago the weekend news was dominated by cases of acts of violence against women. Especially the murder at Ilia State University on October 17 and the subsequent media reports of other cases of domestic violence over the course of two days spurred the debate.

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