Giorgi Kupatadze
Editor CRS, Georgia
Editor CRS, Georgia
Giorgi Kupatadze has spent the last ten years working as a journalist and editor for a number of Georgian and Russian news agencies, newspapers and magazines, and as web editor for the News-Georgia site. He was Georgian coordinator on minority reporting and media monitoring for the Media Diversity Institute. Giorgi is co-founder of the Black Sea Press Journalists’ Association in Georgia.
Heavy-handed police action against demonstrators follows days of opposition protests.
The rebel administration dismisses the latest Georgian initiative as an attempt to sow division and seek recognition for a pro-Tbilisi faction in the region.
Tbilisi’s move to reassert control over region bordering Abkahzia enrages separatists.
America is strongly backing a move to end Russia’s military presence in the republic – possibly so it can then send in its own personnel.