Opinion | Georgia’s government is failing to take on right-wing extremism

Violent right-wing extremism is on the rise in Georgia. And recent events, including the Tbilisi City Court denying a ‘hate motive’ in the murder of Vitali Safarov, shows that the government is not willing to take serious steps to stop it.  On 22 July 2013, two years after neo-Nazi Anders Breivik murdered 77 people in Oslo and Utøya, the Council of Europe established the Day for Victims of Hate Crime. The day was meant as a clarion call, a response to the growing strength of the extreme-rig