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The Georgian “Russian-Controlled Government” Arrests the “Anti-Russian” Opposition for Being “Pro-Russian” (opens the original)
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Georgian politics is so performative. No one should ever wholesale accept the sincerity of the Russia Vs. West polarity discourse. Georgian politicians and civil society compete over who can more convincingly perform the correct relationship to that binary for both domestic and external audiences. The case of Giorgi Baramidze displays all these absurdities. It also exposes why even the opposition cannot deviate the slightest from established narratives, their tried-and-tested toolbox, because Ru
Counterpoint to Sloppy Thinking: The Communist Party of China's 10-Year Road to Understanding China as "Semi-Colonial" Before the Chinese Revolution (opens the original)
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Recently, many accusations frame the Soviet Union as a “colonial power” that are often based on sloppy scholarship and even sloppier frameworks. To offer a more rigorous counterpoint in methodology, I want to revisit the Communist Party of China’s (CPC) prolonged struggle to define China as a semi-colony at that time, before the revolution. The theoretical and practical journey was a painstaking process of investigation; there were internal debates, revisions, analysis, and even huge losses in b
Repackaging 1990s Western Bravado as Trauma Therapy for Abkhazia (opens the original)
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I am dedicated to sharing critical knowledge about Georgia and the Soviet Union—through research, summaries, translations, and on-the-ground perspectives. If you value this independent work, consider becoming a paid supporter (if you have the means!)So, a prominent opposition figure, Nika Gvaramia, was interviewed on August 15th, 2026, on opposition media. It was on the 34th anniversary of the war (August 14th) between the Abkhaz and the Georgians. Gvaramia was one of the refugees whom Abkhazian
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