Essays on Georgia

Georgia is a country located in the Caucasus region, at crossroad of Western Asia and Eastern Europe. As far country is situated between two dissimilar continents, culture of the country is rich with different characteristic details. County covers about 69 700 square kilometres with about...

Georgia’s transition experience is different from those of Eastern Europeans. Soon after independence, country was involved in civil war and at the same time, separatist movements in Abkhazia and South Ossetia took an advantage and broke away from central government’s control. This experience dramatically weakened...

In the early 2000s, the former Soviet space experienced a wave of democratic political enthusiasm. The Republic of Georgia is one of the former Soviet republics which sailed on that wave of the democratic transition. However, after declaring independence in 1991, the course of events...

Dissolution of USSR in 1991 resulted in 15 new independent states that were expected to transform their central-planned economy system into free market economy and practice independent domestic and foreign policy. Not all of them took the same path and not all of them had...

Introduction 21 century is known as the technological era. Today, the whole civilized world is aware of the huge problem of digital technology through massive propaganda in different directions. The internet has also contributed to the growth of community groups to meet the activities and...

The Movement theatre is an ideal place to understand better modern Georgian culture and look at the theatre from the other side. Since the actors tell the story only through movements, there is no language barriers, and the theater tries its best to please everyone,...

Rural residents are struggling with the major shortage of doctors, hospitals and clinics in rural Georgia. Not only do the residents have to deal with this shortage but poverty and the inability to access healthcare is on the rise in rural areas. People who don’t...