Project Name: Working Towards Sustainability of the Russian Studies in Georgia

Donor: Konrad Adenauer Foundation (KAS)

Project duration: April 2021 – December 2021

The project aims to contribute to generating and further enhancing the academic knowledge about Russia; dissemination of this knowledge among Georgian society and beyond through the use of academic methods and Internet media. Indirectly, such an aim will serve the communication among Georgian and Russian scholars, who are interested and able to promote objectivist, problem-oriented discourse regarding Georgian-Russian relations.

Target groups: Scholars; young researchers and students; the wider public.

Main Activities:

• Updating the online platform www.crs.ge

• Holding an international summer school “Russia and the region through the lens of Post-Soviet and Postcolonial studies”

• Holding an international conference “What is Soviet in Post-Soviet Space”

• Recording of video-talks and international interviews