Eyewitnesses 2024

Giorgi Meladze
Georgia

Giorgi Meladze is an Associate Professor at the School of Law at Ilia State University in Tbilisi, Georgia. A former activist in the KMARA movement, a youth-led civic initiative opposing Shevardnadze’s regime in the early 2000s, he brings years of experience in training grassroots organizations and human rights activists both in Georgia and internationally. Giorgi […]

Giorgi Meladze
Georgia
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Rusudan Kobakhidze
Georgia

In 1986, Rusudan Kobakhidze graduated from the Department of Classical Philology at Tbilisi State University. She later pursued a Doctoral Program in Byzantine Philology at the same university, earning her PhD in 2017. Since 2014, she has been a researcher at the Soviet Past Research Laboratory, and since 2018, she has taught Georgian Language and

Rusudan Kobakhidze
Georgia
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Siarhei Chareuski
Belarus

Siarhei Chareuski is a Belarusian art historian, artist, journalist, and public figure. His biography reflects the shifts in creative and social choices made by young people in a major Belarusian city during the 1980s. Siarhei received a solid foundation in art education, graduating from the Glebov Art College in Minsk (1982–1987). While still a student,

Siarhei Chareuski
Belarus
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