GeoAir: Public Discussion Regarding Cultural Policy in Tbilisi (geoair.blogspot.de)

(geoair.blogspot.de) In the frame of SPACES project GeoAIR is organizing a public meeting-discussion regarding cultural policy. Namely, about the changes, work and programs in last six months at the Ministry of Culture and Monument Protection of Georgia.

Adress: G. Chubinashvili National Research Center for Georgian Art History and Heritage Preservation. 9 Atoneli str. 0105 Tbilisi.
  
The following themes will be discussed:
· rethinking the function of the Ministry of Culture
· institution of recommendations council
· presentation of new staff
· the priorities and strategies of the Ministry
· discussion of existing problems in several cultural sphere
· goal of international programs
· criteria for choosing supported projects

The meeting will be moderated by Sophia Kilasonia- Art historian, journalist

Speakers:
Theona Dolenjashvili- advisor of the Minister of Culture and Monument Protection
Badri Bagration-Gruzinski – Daputy Minister of Culture and Monument protection (Current Events and Regional Programs Division)
Lali Pertenava – Art historian, member of the ccommittee for international projects
Levan Avalishvili - IDFI (Institute for Development of Freedom of Information - had of board / project director)

Project is realized in the frame of the EU project SPACES.

This project is funded by the European Union through the Eastern Partnership Culture Programme.

STUDY: Stalinist Terror in the South Caucasus (res.ethz.ch)

Author(s): Levan Avalishvili, Eduard Melkonian, Eldar Ismailov, George Anchabadze
Editor(s): Giorgi Kldiashvili, Iris Kempe, Matthias Neumann, Robert Orttung, Jeronim Perović, Lili Di Puppo
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), Zurich, Switzerland, Jefferson Institute, Washington, DC, USA, Heinrich Böll Foundation, Tbilisi, Georgia, Forschungsstelle Osteuropa (FSOE), Bremen, Germany
Date of publication: 1 Dec 2010
Issue number: 22
Pages: 17
Series: Caucasus Analytical Digest

Description: This issue of the Caucasus Analytical Digest examines the history of Stalinist terror in the South Caucasus during the 1930s. It looks at the "Great Terror" in Georgia and Azerbaijan, comments on the repressions in Soviet Armenia and tells the story of a family affected by the Soviet mass terror.

General note: © 2010 Center for Security Studies (CSS), Heinrich Böll Foundation, Resource Security Institute (RSI), Forschungsstelle Osteuropa (FSOE)

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The “Great Terror” of 1937–1938 in Georgia: Between the Two Reports of Lavrentiy Beria
By Levan Avalishvili, Tbilisi

Repressions in 1930s Soviet Armenia
By Eduard Melkonian, Yerevan

1937: “Great Terror” in Azerbaijan
By Eldar Ismailov, Baku

Mass Terror in the USSR: The Story of One Family
By George Anchabadze, Tbilisi

Guest Editor: Giorgi Kldiashvili