Nina Tifliska

In a country where the law is visibly bent and “legality” is all too often used as the opposite of justice, society’s attention naturally turns to those who are supposed to be responsible for protection: lawyers and jurists. By the very nature of the profession, a lawyer is not merely a service provider, but an institutional counterweight to state power—a mechanism that shields civil rights from abuse and makes it possible for “law” to be more than just paper. That is precisely why the legal...

European rectors’ conferences from Austria, Germany, Poland and Slovakia have issued a rare joint warning over recent developments in Georgia’s higher education sector. In a coordinated statement, they express serious concern that the Georgian government’s newly published National Concept for Higher Education Reform threatens to dismantle university autonomy, undermine academic freedom and place universities under direct political control. The signatories call on the Georgian authorities to...

In Georgia's booming tech scene, the Global Tech Weekend Tbilisi (GTWT) is supposed to be a flagship event: decentralized,...