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Soviet Past Research Laboratory (Sovlab) is a think-tank researching Soviet totalitarian past and countering its weaponization by the Kremlin disinfo

[SovLab @SovLab]

SovLab and writer Lasha Bughadze to present our joint flagship book Georgia vs Joseph Stalin at the @Book_Fair in Frankfurt on Sunday, October 19. Mr Bughadze and the project author @kandelakigiorgi will lead a discussio on "How Stalin stole 20th century from his native Georgia"

[Peter Fischer @Diplo_Peter]

1/2 Excellent tour by @SovLab of sites in central #Tbilisi depicting the Soviet Union's occupation & oppression of 🇬🇪 - with colleagues from @usingeo, @LTEmbassyGe & @PLinGEORGIA. Before anyone freaks out, we talked only about this brutal period of history.
I recommend this tour.

[SovLab @SovLab]

Full statement https://t.co/HlsGZn3vOB

[SovLab @SovLab]

Statement on Georgian Dream regime attacks on Sovlab as well as the Embassy of France to Georgia

[Hans Gutbrod @HansGutbrod]

disgraceful spectacle of massive & multi-day GD / Imedi attacks on French Ambassador @Sherzag for... supporting the good work of @SovLab research on the Soviet past, and pictured with some of Tbilisi's finest people here.

This is done to try and cow all embassies & donors into submission, to vilify research into Soviet crimes, and to repress all civil society, also with attack on PEN Georgia ( @pen_int ).

Attempt specifically to tarnish ambos at home also, as GD has done with previous ambassadors. All the more reason to support them for standing up and being willing to engage! Merci pour vos efforts courageux!

[SovLab @SovLab]

@GilbreathDustin This is posted on all of Sovlab's platforms

[SovLab @SovLab]

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[SovLab @SovLab]

of SovLab being target - an attack on researcher Badri Okujava last October remains uninvestigated. Sovlab remains fully committed to the demands for democratic elections and the release of all political prisoners.

[SovLab @SovLab]

SovLab staff member Lizi Basilaia is in court today, accused of “illegally blocking” Chavchavadze Avenue on Dec 17. This is part of the regime’s strategy to intimidate peaceful protesters with exorbitant fines—tactics copied from Russia and Belarus. This is not the first case/

[SovLab @SovLab]

Todat at 7pm, Sovlab is hosting a march of families of victims of Soviet repressions. Participants are asked to bring papers with names of victims and the measure of repression (execution, exile). Assembly point: Tbilisi Philharmonic Concert Hall

[SovLab @SovLab]

Sovlab's Irakli Khvadagiani and Giorgi Kandelaki are reading a lecture about the Holodomor, ganocide of the Ukrainian people by the Soviet totalitarian regime to students outside the Tbilisi State University

[Civil.ge @CivilGe]

Protest continues at Tbilisi State University, where students remain camped, with a series of rallies and public lectures. The situation is similar at Ilia State University, another major academic institution in Tbilisi, and at several other universities across Georgia.

[Marika Mikiashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺 @Mikiashvili_M]

.@SovLab is currently holding a protest lecture outside of the Tbilisi State University where students are camped out. The topic is the Holodomor: the genocide of the Ukrainian people.
Speakers are Irakli Khvadagiani (right) and @kandelakigiorgi (left).
#GeorgiaProtests

[Molly McKew @MollyMcKew]

So @SovLab does amazing work trying to reclaim Georgian history from Moscow’s erasure/manipulation

It says an awful lot that in “Georgian Dream’s” Georgia, this work is villainized

Every former captive nation deserves its own narrative sovereignty, and a govt that embraces it

[SovLab @SovLab]

to closely monitor the incident as impunity for violence against members of civil society has remained a key concern since protests this Spring. END

[SovLab @SovLab]

On the day of signing of the Memorandum to create the Institute of National Memory, Badri Okujava a SovLab researcher and an activist was attacked and beaten near our office by individuals linked with Georgian Dream. Despite arriving promptly on the scene, the Police

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made no arrests even though some of the attackers whom Mr Okujava identified remained on the scene. Mr Okujava proactively filed a complaint with the Police and requested to be interviewed. We call on our partners and election observation missions accredited in Georgia

[SovLab @SovLab]

SovLab Initiates Memorandum on Creation of Institute of National Memory of Georgia to include lustration, memorialization of memory cites and full re-opening Soviet-era archives now closed https://t.co/tYsn5rA3rS via @CivilGe Three opposition blocks sign the memorandum

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underscores its closer alignment with Russia END

[SovLab @SovLab]

🧵In a resolution titled "On Democratic Backsliding and Threats to Political Pluralism in Georgia," the European Parliament addressed the severe restrictions imposed by the Georgian government on access to Soviet-era archives. Article 24 of the resolution states:

[SovLab @SovLab]

Soviet history, as part of its war of aggression against Ukraine and its military threats against other countries; regrets the growing cult of Stalin and the related increase in Soviet nostalgia in Georgia, supported by the ruling government, which