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Keti Chubinishvili

Keti Chubinishvili holds a B.A. in Sociology from Tbilisi State University, and studied for her M.A. in Social Science at Masaryk University in the Czech Republic. Since February 2010 she has been a Junior Fellow at CRRC. Before becoming a Junior Fellow, she worked on a variety of research projects for different organizations. Her research interests are mainly related to social and cultural issues.
Keti Chubinishvili holds a B.A. in Sociology from Tbilisi State University, and studied for her...

Elene Japaridze

Elene Japaridze holds a B.A. in Social Psychology at Iv. Javakhishvili State University, and an M.A. in Social and Political Science at the Ilia Chavchavadze State University. 

While attaining her B.A., Elene participated in a student exchange program at the University of Saarbrucken, where she had training courses in small-groups psychology. After returning to Tbilisi, Elene worked as an interviewer at ACT. During her M.A. programme, she planned and conducted different social research projects under the supervision of the Ilia Chavchavadze University research team. 

Elene Japaridze holds a B.A. in Social Psychology at Iv. Javakhishvili State University, and an...

Thea Goginashvili

Thea Goginashvili earned a B.A. in Mathematics from Tbilisi State University, and holds a M.A. in Economics from the International School of Economics at Tbilisi State University. Before joining CRRC’s Junior Research Fellow program, she worked as a Research Assistant for Prof. Frédéric Laurin, a research fellow at ISET. Her research interests include real estate economics and macroeconomics.
Thea Goginashvili earned a B.A. in Mathematics from Tbilisi State University, and holds a M.A....

Vazha Burduli

Vazha Burduli earned a diploma in Law from the Georgian Humanitarian-Economic University in 2001, and a B.A. in the Humanities (majoring in American Studies) from the International Black Sea University in 2008. Prior to joining CRRC he worked as a translator/English version copy editor for Business News magazine, and also as a translator for the Public Defender’s Office, with which he continues to cooperate. 

His research interests include the Georgian national liberation movement during the Soviet period and recent Georgian history.
Vazha Burduli earned a diploma in Law from the Georgian Humanitarian-Economic University in 2001, and...

Attitudes towards disinformation on social media in Armenia and Georgia

Armenian and Georgian internet users have different perspectives on the effect of social media disinformation and its effect on their respective countries, with a CRRC analysis finding that Armenians are more likely to state that social media has a negative impact on their country. 
Armenian and Georgian internet users have different perspectives on the effect of social media disinformation...

Dinara Urazova

Dinara is from a city in Western Kazakhstan located at the crossroads between Europe and Asia. A social science enthusiast, she obtained her bachelor’s degree in Political Science and International Relations from American University in Bulgaria. After that she worked as a staff writer for Tengrinews - one of the biggest English-language news sources in Kazakhstan. She obtained her MA degree in Political Science from Central European University and undertook an internship at Georgian Foundation for Strategic and International Studies. Among her broader interests are social science methodology, regime transformation, contentious politics, inequalities, including those predicated upon gender and socio-economic standing, and political sociology. 
Dinara is from a city in Western Kazakhstan located at the crossroads between Europe and...

Brian O’Connor

Brian is enrolled at School of Slavonic and Eastern European Studies, part of University College London. Prior to this, he attained a B.A in History from Royal Holloway, University of London. He then spent the intervening years teaching English as a foreign language in Ukraine, Moldova and Kazakhstan.

Currently, he studies the Politics and Security issues of Eastern Europe/the former USSR, and I will be starting my second year in Moscow in September 2017. His research focuses on the informal interaction between the Kremlin and leading Russian oligarchs, with the aim of determining the extent to which the latter act as agents of the former: specifically concerning philanthropy, political participation, and corporate takeovers.

Brian is enrolled at School of Slavonic and Eastern European Studies, part of University College...

Bennett Clifford

Bennett recently received a BA degree in Politics and International Affairs from Wake Forest University. He will start an MA degree in Law and Diplomacy at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (Tufts University) in 2018. Previously, Bennett worked at the Program on Extremism at George Washington University’s Center for Cyber and Homeland Security and the Georgian Foundation for Strategic and International Studies (GFSIS). His research interests include terrorism, sub-state conflict, counter-terrorism and countering violent extremism, with a focus on the Caucasus region.
Bennett recently received a BA degree in Politics and International Affairs from Wake Forest...