Interested in urban development? Want to know how outsiders describe the urban experience of Baku? Two young researchers from Germany have set up a blog to follow their project in tracking changes in Baku. Oriana Kraemer and Sebastian Burger take photographs, attend…
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აქ თავმოყრილია CRRC-საქართველოს მკვლევრების მიერ გამოქვეყნებული ბლოგები, რომლებიც რეგიონში მიმდინარე ტრენდებს აანალიზებს და, ძირითადად, CRRC-საქართველოს მიერ განხორციელებული გამოკითხვების მონაცემებს ეყრდნობა. ბლოგები პირველად OC Media-ს ვებგვერდზე ქვეყნდება CRRC-საქართველოსა და OC Media-ს შორის არსებული თანამშრომლობის ფარგლებში.
As last year, we again went to the annual conference of the Central Eurasian Studies Society (CESS). This year, it was held at Georgetown University. CESS conference focuses on issues that pertain to Central Eurasia (from the Kurds to the…
How do urban Russians view the conflicts in South Ossetia and Abkhazia? From September, 5th-8th, 2008 the Analytical Center of Yuri Levada conducted a survey in ten big cities of the Russian Federation, interviewing 1000 Russian respondents. We have translated the results…
Results of the World Bank’s Doing Business 2009 project, claims to present “objective measures of business regulations and their enforcement across 181 economies and selected cities at the sub-national and regional level”, were made public today.
Over the past year questionable lending practices by major banks and lack of consumer education about credit risk in the United States among “sub-prime” borrowers caused a credit crunch that in turn erupted into a major financial crisis that threatens…
Corruption remains an endemic feature in the region, outside Georgia. No wonder, then, that it continues to receive considerable attention from organizations and donors. Currently, we are being asked to run a survey (we will publish details on that later).…
Georgian IPResearch (first time we heard of them, actually) conducted a phone poll between Aug.25 and Sept.2. 450 respondents were questioned countrywide. While we have our strong reservations about these telephone polls (they are biased towards people with phones, picking…
In the current situation, one issue facing Georgia is what to do with and for the Internally Displaced People (IDPs) that are now coming from South Ossetia and the Kodori Gorge, in Upper Abkhazia. A friend with significant experience in…
On July 29, just before the tensions in around South Ossetia began to escalate, Alexander Rondeli gave a talk at the Tbilisi Summer Seminars, a weekly lecture series which we were organizing with GFSIS and American Councils. Alexander Rondeli runs…
