Tbilisi. With USAID/PROLoG's support, Georgian Trade Unions Confederation prepared e-bulletin and banners about COVID-19 influence on employment in the framework of the project "Legal Aid for Protection of Workers Affected by COVID-19 Pandemic."

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Source: The organization’s page in a Social network

Tbilisi. “Media Advocacy Coalition” member organizations demand an immediate response ofthe Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia to the threat of a raid on “Pankisi Radio”.

“On September 1, there was released a video demonstrating how Pankisi Community Radio was threatened to expect a raid on its studio while Gela Mtivlishvili, a journalist and its founder, was demanded to discontinue his professional activities in the Pankisi Gorge”.

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Source:www.qartia.ge

Tbilisi. The “Salam” platform successfully continues to document endangered Ibero-Caucasian languages that are common in Georgia.

“We would like to inform you that the #Salam platform, with the financial support of the Endangered Language Fund operating in the USA, creates an audio/video archive of languages. This year, with the support of the Fund, we started establishment of an archive of critically endangered Tsovatushetian and Udi languages. Data, collected within the framework of the project, will be provided to all interested parties in the form of supporting material.

As part of the linguistic expedition, scientists are currently visiting the village of Zemo Alvani, populated by Tushetians of the Tsovati community, where active recording of Tsovatushetian texts is performed. Today they were at the pasture of Tsovatushetians in #Tbatana, 2000-2300 meters above sea level. We hereby share photos from our expedition”, - is stated on the website of the organization in a social network.

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Source: The website of the organization in a social network

Tbilisi. On August 14, the Civil Society Institute (CSI) conducted its 16th meeting and, thus, concluded awarding of winners of a high school seniors competition “This Country is Yours” as well as meetings with young people in regions. Awarding of winning teams from Tbilisi is going to be held in September. The last stage of the competition is a super final, in which one team from each region, including Tbilisi, will take part. The super finale envisages gathering for 2-3 days, interesting meetings, as well as quizzes and will be planned in accordance with the epidemic situation.

The competition “This country is yours” was carried out throughout the country and about 150 teams participated in it. The winning students and their curator-teachers were given laptops, face masks, maps, notebooks, and an almanac “Freedom, Justice and Democracy in Georgian Thought” as gifts... Public meetings with young people were conducted by well-known writers, publishers, journalists and education experts. They talked about civic values, activities of civil society organizations, civic responsibility, activism and education.

The social campaign “This Country is Yours” is carried out within the framework of the “Civil Society Sustainability Initiative” project, implemented by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation (KAS) in collaboration with the Civil Society Institute (CSI), the Center for Training and Consultancy (CTC), the Center for Strategic Research and Development of Georgia (CSRDG) and the Education Development and Employment Center (EDEC). The project is funded by the European Union and the Konrad Adenauer Foundation.

Tbilisi. Is sport linked with politics? Should we separate sport and politics? What connections are there between sport and politics? - These are the issues that the Institute for Development of Freedom of Information (IDFI) touches upon in its publication – “Russian sport and politics”.

“Sport and politics are significantly linked to each other in the history of both contemporary and Soviet Russia. If the Soviet Union used sport to assert its superiority over the West and improve the reputation of the Soviet regime on an international level, the contemporary regime of Putin uses sport for several purposes: first of all, Putin associates his image with victory and power through sporting events and relevant propaganda; besides, such large-scale events as the Olympic Games and the World Cup are used by the Putin regime to rebrand its image internationally, on the one hand, while on the other hand, to consolidate Russian people at the time when there are serious socio-economic problems in the country; at the same time, there are influential businessmen from the entourage of Putin, who get actively involved in the sports field, control most of the sports clubs and organizations, and use them to enact various corruption schemes. Consequently, it can be noted that separation of sport from politics is virtually impossible in both contemporary and Soviet Russia. Russia still remains a state where business, crime, sport and politics are closely intertwined with each other”, - is stated in the publication.

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Source: The website of the organization

Tbilisi. From March to July 2020, the Open Society Georgia Foundation additionally released up to 900 thousand US Dollars for Georgia in order to prevent spread of the COVID-19 infection and mitigate impact of the pandemic on the most vulnerable citizens.

Support, provided to combat consequences of COVID-19, covered several areas, including protection of labor rights of citizens, socio-economic assistance, empowerment of health care institutions and medical personnel, awareness raising of ethnic minorities, people with disabilities and regional population, free legal and psychological services for citizens, facilitation of students in the online training process.

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Source: The website of the organization