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Episode 2: Georgia Elections 2024 Guide
Russian Pressure on Abkhazia - US Pressure on Georgia - New NGO fund - Strike & Protest - New Party List of Georgian Dream
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Georgia Elections 2024 Guide - Episode 1
Foreign Influence Law - Constitutional Court - Electoral System - Parties/Coalitions
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July 2024

The Georgian Boys?
A brief sketch of Georgian neoliberal reformers continuing the tradition of the Chicago Boys in Georgia and Ukraine
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Episode 41: Europe, Memory and the Resurgent Right with David Broder
This is a special TWO PART episode with Historian and Jacobin Europe editor David Broder.
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June 2024

The False Ideologies of Capitalism in Post-Socialist Countries/Georgia
I wrote this in 2019 and revisited it recently.
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May 2024

Episode 40: Baku Oil, Bolsheviks and Sovietization in the South Caucasus with Sara Brinegar
On this episode we discuss how Baku oil shaped Bolshevism, Sovietization, and the structuring of the Soviet state between 1920-1929 in the South…
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Georgia Newsletter #1 April - PART 1
April Georgia News Roundup/Resource for Journalists
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Episode 39: Georgia's Chronic Crisis with Anatol Lieven and Almut Rochowanski
This episode was recorded on May 8th/9th 2024 - the situation is still unfolding.
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Counterpoint: Regulating foreign influence is the moment and not Russian!
This blog presents a rebuttal to criticisms surrounding our article on Georgia's foreign influence bill, offering more insights and alternative…
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Unrest in Georgia over the “Foreign Influence Transparency Law”: “Whichever Way We Go Is a Step Back”
By Almut Rochowanski and Sopiko Japaridze (originally published at LeftEast)
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April 2024

Episode 38: Post-Socialist Mortality Crisis with Gabor Scheiring
The collapse of socialism in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union unleashed an unprecedented mortality crisis.
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Some thoughts about Foreign Influence Law in Georgia and EU
Reactionary Dual Power in Georgia
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