{"id":14992,"date":"2024-10-16T10:28:03","date_gmt":"2024-10-16T14:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/?post_type=cu_event&#038;p=14992"},"modified":"2025-11-19T10:47:23","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T15:47:23","slug":"event-elections-in-georgia-between-europe-and-russia","status":"publish","type":"cu_event","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/event\/event-elections-in-georgia-between-europe-and-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"EVENT: Elections in Georgia: Between Europe and Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n        \n    <\/h1>\n    \n        <\/header>\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    <div class=\"cu-buttongroup cu-component-updated flex flex-wrap md:flex-1 gap-3 md:gap-5 justify-start\">\n                                                                        <\/div>\n    \n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/186\/Elections-in-Georgia-Between-Europe-and-Russia-QR-FINALE.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15012\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/186\/Elections-in-Georgia-Between-Europe-and-Russia-QR-FINALE.png 1080w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/186\/Elections-in-Georgia-Between-Europe-and-Russia-QR-FINALE-160x160.png 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/186\/Elections-in-Georgia-Between-Europe-and-Russia-QR-FINALE-240x240.png 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/186\/Elections-in-Georgia-Between-Europe-and-Russia-QR-FINALE-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/186\/Elections-in-Georgia-Between-Europe-and-Russia-QR-FINALE-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/186\/Elections-in-Georgia-Between-Europe-and-Russia-QR-FINALE-200x200.png 200w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/186\/Elections-in-Georgia-Between-Europe-and-Russia-QR-FINALE-360x360.png 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>DATE: October 30th<span lang=\"en-CA\">, 2024<\/span><br>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>TIME: 10<span lang=\"en-CA\">:00-11:30am<\/span><br>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>LOCATION: <span lang=\"en-CA\">4050 Nicol Building<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Registration is required. Please register using the form below. This is a hybrid event. Online attendees will receive the event&#8217;s zoom link one day before.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Event Description:&nbsp;<\/strong><span lang=\"EN-CA\">Elections in Georgia on October 26 will determine its path: a pro-European orientation or one linked to Vladimir Putin\u2019s Russia.&nbsp; Georgian Dream, the ruling party, has taken steps to stifle civil society and turn Georgia into an illiberal democracy along the lines of Victor Orban\u2019s Hungary.&nbsp; A divided but strong opposition seeks to continue to the path of European Union integration.&nbsp; The War in Ukraine casts a long shadow as do pocketbook issues.&nbsp; The outcome is impossible to predict, as is how various parties will react especially given the possibility of election manipulation.&nbsp; A roundtable of speakers that include Carleton experts&nbsp;<\/span><span lang=\"EN-CA\">and those on the ground in Georgia will discuss the election results and post-election fallout.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"m_2563932550979108862xmsonormal\"><span lang=\"EN-CA\"><strong>Speakers:<\/strong><u><\/u><u><\/u><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"m_2563932550979108862xmsonormal\"><span lang=\"EN-CA\">Nino Antadze, Associate Professor, Environmental Studies, University of Prince Edward Island<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"m_2563932550979108862xmsonormal\"><span lang=\"EN-CA\">Kornely Kakachia, Director, Georgian Institute of Politics, Tbilisi<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"m_2563932550979108862xmsonormal\"><span lang=\"EN-CA\">Anna&nbsp;Rekhviashvili, PhD in Gender Feminist and Women\u2019s Studies, York University<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"m_2563932550979108862xmsonormal\"><span lang=\"EN-CA\">Jeff Sahadeo, Professor, Institute of European, Russian and Eurasian Studies and Political Science, Carleton University<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"m_2563932550979108862xmsonormal\"><span lang=\"EN-CA\">David Sichinava, Adjunct Research Professor, Institute of European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, Carleton University<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_event_type":[77],"cu_event_audience":[],"class_list":["post-14992","cu_event","type-cu_event","status-publish","hentry","cu_event_type-77"],"acf":{"cu_event_start_date":"2024-10-30T10:00:00","cu_event_end_date":"2024-10-30T11:30:00","cu_event_location_type":"in-person","cu_event_meeting_address_type":"on-campus","cu_building":"NI","cu_event_meeting_room":"4050","cu_event_meeting_address_full":null,"cu_event_virtual_type":"tbd","cu_event_virtual_meeting_link":"","cu_post_thumbnail":false,"cu_event_cost":"","cu_event_registration":"","cu_event_secondary_button":"","cu_event_contact_name":"","cu_event_email":"","cu_event_phone":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/14992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_event"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/14992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15013,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/14992\/revisions\/15013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_event_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_type?post=14992"},{"taxonomy":"cu_event_audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_audience?post=14992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}