Tag: USA
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Russia in Ukraine: Understanding with reason, not Western values
Россия на Украине: понять умом, а не западными ценностями >> ЧИТАТЬ U.S. President Donald Trump expressed his dissatisfaction with Russia’s unwillingness, in the near future, to agree to a peaceful settlement of the conflict in Ukraine. Moreover, the leader of the collective West gave Vladimir Putin a 50-day deadline to recognize the inevitability of peace…
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Transcript: Termez Dialogue and Georgia
Archil Sikharulidze, founder of the SIKHA foundation, participated in the Termez Dialogue on Connectivity between Central and South Asia, titled “Building a Common Space of Peace, Friendship, and Prosperity,” held on May 19–21 in Termez, Uzbekistan. Transcript of the speech titled “Central Asia and Georgia in the New Geopolitical Reality“: Ladies and gentlemen, thank you…
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Interview with Professor Bill Bowring: Russia and the West
by Archil Sikharulidze This is an earlier unpublished interview recorded in 2018. Interviewee: Professor Bill Bowring, Birkbeck College, University of London. Can we say that Russia has a state ideology? If so, what forms modern Russian state? Can you single out thinkers, or traditions that shape political-cultural identity of the state? In my view the…
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SIKHA-Alog #2: Zack Weiss on Journey to Georgia and the Western Politics (ENG)
SIKHA-ALOG #2: Zack Weiss – Tbilisi-based journalist and political analyst. Mr. Weiss holds a B.A. from Colorado College, where he double majored in Political Science and Russian and Eurasian Studies. Language: English. TOPICS: BIOGRAPHY: A political risk analyst living in Tbilisi, Georgia. He has conducted research concerning foreign and domestic politics in the Balkans, Caucasus,…
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RIAC: Georgian “pro-Western” Petty Nationalism
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Georgia has gone through a series of disasters, including a civil war, military conflicts in Abkhazia and Tskhinvali. Georgian raised against Georgian because of the ‘true values’, believing that there are ‘right’ and ‘wrong’ Georgians. To be a true Georgian, you should have had a respective bloodline, a…
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Archil Sikharulidze on Georgia, Ukraine, Russia and Immigration (Interview RU)
Unedited version of the interview of Archil Sikharulidze given to a blogger Vova Karamanov. Date: 28.05.2022, Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia. 1. Russophobia: logical & promoted; 2. Being pro-Russian and pro-Western; 3. Ukraine & Abkhazia (the Second Frontline); 4. Migrants & Georgia (Abkhazia); 5. How did Abkhazia win the war? 6. Migrants from the so-called South…