On this day in 2008, Russia launched full-scale invasion of Georgia. Its propaganda blamed the victim, but not for the first time. Soviet propaganda blamed Georgia for getting invaded by Soviet Russia in 1921 too (Sound on) youtube.com/watch?v=WddFIU…

So SovLab does amazing work trying to reclaim Georgian history from Moscow’s erasure/manipulation It says an awful lot that in “Georgian Dream’s” Georgia, this work is villainized Every former captive nation deserves its own narrative sovereignty, and a govt that embraces it

SovLab Initiates Memorandum on Creation of Institute of National Memory of Georgia to include lustration, memorialization of memory cites and full re-opening Soviet-era archives now closed civil.ge/?p=628951 via Civil.ge Three opposition blocks sign the memorandum

.SovLab is currently holding a protest lecture outside of the Tbilisi State University where students are camped out. The topic is the Holodomor: the genocide of the Ukrainian people. Speakers are Irakli Khvadagiani (right) and Giorgi Kandelaki (left). #GeorgiaProtests

Sovlab's Irakli Khvadagiani and Giorgi Kandelaki are reading a lecture about the Holodomor, ganocide of the Ukrainian people by the Soviet totalitarian regime to students outside the Tbilisi State University

Todat at 7pm, Sovlab is hosting a march of families of victims of Soviet repressions. Participants are asked to bring papers with names of victims and the measure of repression (execution, exile). Assembly point: Tbilisi Philharmonic Concert Hall

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disgraceful spectacle of massive & multi-day GD / Imedi attacks on French Ambassador Sheraz Gasri 🇫🇷🇬🇪 for... supporting the good work of SovLab research on the Soviet past, and pictured with some of Tbilisi's finest people here. This is done to try and cow all embassies & donors into