Anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric has been a central element of the Georgian Dream’s anti-democratic turn towards the far right. How do anti-LGBTQ+ statements and policies help GD expand its grip on power, and why does this strategy work? 

The Cultural & Social Narratives Laboratory  in cooperation with the Heinrich Boell Foundation Yerevan Office-South Caucasus Region launches a new project titled “Blue Yerevan: Urban Memory and the Transformation of Yerevan's Water Infrastructures in the Post-Soviet Era.”

In cooperation with the Heinrich Boell Foundation Yerevan Office – South Caucasus Region “Socioscope Societal Research and Consultancy Center” NGO is implementing a project entitled “Transformations and Resilience: A Participatory Study of Post-Revolutionary and Post-War Armenian Civil Society.”

In cooperation with the Heinrich Boell Stiftung Yerevan Office – South Caucasus Region, Hetq Media Factory implemented a project titled “Crosses without Names (German POWs of the WWII in Soviet Armenia).”

The Kremlin denies sovereignty and territorial integrity not only to Ukraine but also to Georgia. But unlike Ukraine, the ruling Georgian Dream party follows the Russian playbook and uses the Russian threat to maintain authoritarian power. 

From July 13 to July 16, 2023, the Heinrich Boell Foundation Yerevan Office – South Caucasus Region organized its biennial summer school Green Lab, this time focused on environmental colonialism.

На фоне все более сужающегося пространства свободы слова и ужесточившихся репрессий против независимых медиа в Азербайджане единственным способом продолжать свою деятельность становится эмиграция и работа в изгнании. Но делать это для них – совершенно новая реальность, непонятная и пугающая. 

In the face of increasingly shrinking space for freedom of speech and tightening repressions against independent media in Azerbaijan, the only way for them to continue their activity is immigration and working in exile. But to do this means adapting to an entirely new reality, frightening and complex. 

The Heinrich Boell Foundation has been cooperating with Mzia Amaghlobeli, the founder and director of Batumelebi and Netgazeti, for many years. We call for her immediate release.