Zurab Makharadze

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Zurab Makharadze leading a gathering against the opening of Pride Week on 2 July 2021 in Tbilisi. Photo: Shota Kincha/OC Media.

Georgia

US-sanctioned ultra-right pro-Russian leader announces bid for Tbilisi mayor

by Mikheil Gvadzabia

•4 min read

The Conservatives for Georgia, a party founded by the pro-Russian, far-right group Alt Info, has announced that Zurab Makharadze, a leader of the group who is sanctioned by the US, will be its mayoral candidate. The party published a video clip on social media on 10 August in which Makharadze announced his candidacy. In the video, Makharadze said the party wants to focus on ‘real problems’ instead of the ‘so-called conflict’ between the ruling Georgian Dream party and the former ruling United

Several thousand people blocked the highway behind the Georgian Dream offices, after police blocked the area in front of it. Photo: Mariam Nikuradze/OC Media.

Alt Info

Georgian far-right group ‘gifted’ new political party after being de-registered

by Mariam Nikuradze

•3 min read

The Georgian far-right group Alt Info has announced they have been given control of a previously unaffiliated far-right political party, a week after the authorities de-registered their own political wing. Several thousand supporters of Alt Info gathered outside the ruling Georgian Dream party’s offices on Saturday, less than a week after their own political party, the Conservative Movement, was de-registered by Georgian authorities on a technicality. Addressing his supporters, Alt Inf