Tinatin Bandzeladze

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Tinatin is a Senior Researcher at CRRC Georgia.

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Datablog | Trust and political independence in Georgia’s interior ministry

by Tinatin Bandzeladze

•3 min read

A CRRC survey found that trust in Georgia’s Interior Ministry and the police is closely tied to perception of the ministry’s political independence, or lack thereof. In summer 2022, CRRC Georgia and the Social Justice Center partnered on a nationwide public opinion survey on state and personal security. It found that while the Interior Ministry was one of the most trusted institutions in the country, many respondents were concerned that the ministry lacks transparency and political impartiali

Protestor smoking from a makeshift bong as demonstrators demand decriminalisation of drugs in 2014. Mariam Nikuradze/OC Media.

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Datablog | How do Georgians feel about drug users?

by Tinatin Bandzeladze

•2 min read

Recent CRRC Georgia data suggests that drug use is still heavily stigmatised in Georgia, with many Georgians preferring to have neighbours with criminal records rather than drug users. Drugs have been slowly but surely finding their way into the everyday lives of Georgians for years now; in 2020 alone, CRRC Data suggested that drug users in Georgia, at a very minimum, spent $1.5 million on drugs through the dark web between February and August. And yet, data from CRRC Georgia’s Caucasus Baro

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