Merab Turava wants people to believe that he is still in good academic standing abroad, and that the only reason he was asked to resign from the KriPoz journal (in October) is that he was appointed as Deputy Minister of Justice (in April). This is untrue. Hundreds of people reacted to this and other posts, that highlighted Turava's removal from the board of the KriPoz. In fact, German academics have distanced themselves from Merab Turava already more than a year ago, when he

Representatives of the "Georgian Dream" often claim international legitimacy and view themselves as respectable legal experts with high international standing. Therefore, they place great importance on being present in international forums, as this allows them to present themselves in Georgia as legitimate experts. Der Richter Merab Turava, Quelle: Wikimedia @NobodyUser Merab Turava, the current Deputy Minister of Justice, was recently removed from the list of international e

Quelle: IPN.ge In Georgia these days, if you keep your eyes open, you can witness something that feels as though it belongs to another era. On Rustaveli Avenue, in the very heart of Tbilisi, stands a small, elderly woman with a firm gaze and a Georgian flag in her hand. Her name is Aza Chilachava , seventy-one years old, displaced from Gagra (Abkhazia) , now a symbol of the moral stubbornness that has become rare in this country. Standing on the asphalt, facing the police, sh