Tamar Maisuradze
| Tamar studies at Ilia State University, on a Masters program in Molecular Biosciences. Tamar is a teacher, providing her students not only scientific knowledge, but skills to overcome challenges in their lives. Her interest in participating in this project is to develop herself and share the acquired knowledge with her students.
Contest Material: PUBLISHED MATERIAL: THE NAMES OF GARIBASHVILI AND LUKOIL ARE USED TO ATTRACT PEOPLE TO JOIN ANOTHER FRAUDULENT SCHEME
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Tatevik Khotrsanyan
| Tatevik is 19 and lives in Samtskhe-Javakheti, in village Orja in the Akhalkalaki municipality. Tatevik studies at Tbilisi State University, on a Bachelor’s degree program in International Law. She works with Armenian-language media platform AliQ Media. As a journalist, she works on analytical articles regarding women’s rights, and providing the ethnic minorities with correct information. She considers that media literacy is important for all citizens, especially for the non-Georgian speaking communities in Georgia.
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Mariam Niguriani
| Mariam is 22 years old. She holds a BA in International Relations from the Tbilisi State University, and is now pursuing an MA in European Studies at the Institute of European Studies at the same university. Mariam is interested in learning French. She is working at Georgian Association For Equality (GAFE), an NGO focusing on raising awareness on topics around equality among the youth and advocating its implementation in practice.
Contest Material: PUBLISHED MATERIAL: A FABRICATED COVER CIRCULATING UNDER THE NAME OF TITANIC MAGAZINE |
Lasha Kvlividze
| Lasha is an activist and a blogger, studying at the Ilia State University, pursuing BA in Georgian Language Philology. He is a co-founding member of NGO Students for the European Future.. He is interested in linguistics, politics and history. He has command of English, Russian, and Ukrainian languages. Lasha writes articles on Russian propaganda and its influences on current political events. He writes prose and poetry. His academic work is mainly focused on linguistics, on the analysis of the texts from the period of the Russian Empire and modern texts, he dedicates his time to writing about situation in the occupied territories.
Contest Material: Manipulation with the Candidate Status by the Government PUBLISHED MATERIAL:
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Lasha Machabeli
| Lasha is in his third year of BA program in International Relations at the Tbilisi State University. He is actively engaged in youth projects and several educational courses. Currently he is a board member of the Young European Ambassadors’ (YEAs) initiative. He participated in Erasmus+ training “Say No To Hate Speech” in the Czech Republic. He has volunteered at organizations such as World Vision, Sunny House, Helping hand. He is interested in the foreign policy of various countries and the issues of security, as well as research of propaganda, disinformation and political narratives.
PUBLISHED MATERIAL: PHOTOMANIPULATION, AS IF OTTAWA OFFERS PALESTINE SUPPORTERS A TRANSFER TO THE GAZA STRIP |
Mariam Varazashvili
| Mariam holds a BA degree from the Tbilisi State University in International Relations. Through Erasmus+ exchange program she has spent one semester in University of Limerick (Ireland) and one semester in University of Groningen (Netherlands). She is interested in studying policies of EU and migration.
Contest Material: “Beautiful Friend”: China, as an Alternative to the West for Georgia PUBLISHED MATERIAL:
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Mariam Mikiani
| Mariam holds a BA degree from the Tbilisi State University in International Relations. She is a co-founder of GEN-Generations Empowerment Network. She has experience of working at various organizations and companies: Transparency International Georgia, Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, PMCG, etc. She is constantly involved in volunteer work as a Young European Ambassador. Her interests include: hybrid warfare, EU, Russian foreign policy.
Contest Material: Georginan Langauge as Inegral Part of the Identity: Comparing the Policies of Russia and EU PUBLISHED MATERIAL: |
Tekla Kharazishvili
| Tekla is in her final year of the BA program at Tbilisi State University, faculty of Humanitarian Sciences. As her minor she has chosen to study journalism and mass communications. She was an intern at the online platform of Forbes Woman Georgia in 2021, where she wrote about Business and success of women in the field. Later, she became a blogger at Imitom.ge, writing about various topics, creating quizzes. Her spheres of interest are new digital media and blogging.
Contest Material: The the Post Soviet Factor of Georgia in the Wester Press PUBLISHED MATERIAL: WAS THE GLORY TO URINE BILLBOARD WITH UKRAINIAN FLAG COLORS PLACED IN NEW YORK? |
Magda Rukhadze
| Magda is pursuing an MA degree in Sociology at Tbilisi State University. She is interested in research and actively takes part in academic conferences. Her main focus as a researcher is youth and their challenges. Two of her articles have been published in various international peer-reviewed papers. Currently, she is a research expert in the Skills4jobs TA project.
Contest Material: Social Research Wars – Biased Exit-Polls? PUBLISHED MATERIAL: IS THE US SENATOR LINDSEY GRAHAM CALLING FOR BOMBING THE ENTIRE WORLD? |
Aleksandre Buzaladze
| Alexander is a third-year international relations student at the School of Social Sciences of the University of Georgia. He is interested in the research of international political economy, security of the Black Sea region, conflicts in the South Caucasus, and Russia. He is currently participating in the “Foreign Policy Research Institute” Think Tank\s and the “International Crisis Management” course organized by George Washington University. From the point of view of fighting disinformation, he is interested in studying the spread of anti-Western, pro-Russian and pseudo-conservative narratives produced in Georgia, especially against the background of the Russia-Ukraine war.
PUBLISHED MATERIAL: FABRICATED QUOTE OF ZELENSKYY ABOUT JEWS DISSEMINATED ON SOCIAL MEDIA |
Nika Amiranashvili
| Nika Amiranashvili is a BA student at the faculty of Law at the Tbilisi State University. His spheres of interest include human rights, public law and international politics. Nika is actively involved in youth activities and projects.
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Anastasia Japaridze
| Anastasia graduated from the Free University of Tbilisi in 2023 with a BA degree from the School of Governance and Social Sciences, Arabic Language as minor specialization. She has been an intern in an NGO – Innovations and Reform Center on a position of researcher/junior consultant. Her interests include politics, international relations. research, history and culture. Anastasia has been actively involved in various local and international youth projects and educational courses. Currently she is volunteering as a teacher at the Center of Education and Integration center, teaching English to people with disabilities.
Contest Material: Liza Go On: Georgian society’s path to occupied Abkhazia in the footsteps of myths and reality PUBLISHED MATERIAL: A FABRICATED COVER ABOUT THE 2024 OLYMPICS DISSEMINATED UNDER THE NAME OF EULENSPIEGEL |
Elis Bakradze
| Alice is pursuing PhD in Sociology at Ilia State University. She is also a researcher at the Social Justice Center in Javakheti region. Currently, in the framework of Zink Network and USAID media program, Alice is researching cases of corruption and clan leadership in Javakheti region. She is interested in challenges facing ethnic and religious minorities, human rights research, state security policy regarding territories populated with minorities, corruption research, and investigative journalism.
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Aksana Akhmedova
| Aksana holds a BA in International Relations from Tbilisi State University, faculty of Social and Political Sciences. In 2022 she participated in Erasmus+ exchange program, spending semester in Turkey, Çukurova University. Currently Aksana is an intern at Civic Idea and takes part in research at the organization. Her research interests include regional studies (foreign policies of Near East countries), international security and terrorism.
Contest Material: PUBLISHED MATERIAL: FABRICATED ARTICLE ABOUT UKRAINIAN REFUGEES UNDER THE NAME OF DEUTSCHE WELLE |
Liza Barbakadze
| Liza is in the final year of the International Relations degree at Free University of Tbilisi, studying on the Euro-Atlantic track with French specialization. She was an assistant to the professor on the course “World History and Georgia”. Currently she is teaching political ideologies at Free University school of diplomacy. At the same time, through the Leaderator program, she is employed at Bank of Georgia. Her interests include Georgia’s relations with NATO and EU, Black Sea regional security and hybrid warfare.
Contest Material: Invisible Cities: Media Coverage of Underage Marriage in the Ethnic Minority Communities PUBLISHED MATERIAL: |
Tamta Kekelidze
| Tamta is a second-year student at the Tbilisi State University, studying International Relations. She is interested in economic and political processes in the world, as well as mediation, history, and challenges facing the educational sphere. Tamta is a member of Young Diplomats’ Club of Georgia, now focusing on raising awareness on the importance of the issue of integration in the EU.
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Tamta Mazanashvili
| Tamta is studying at Free University of Tbilisi, Near East as her focus. She is an intern at the US Embassy in Tbilisi, while also reading lectures in politics at the Future Diplomats’ Club. Tamta has participated in various projects dealing with conflictology, security and disinformation. In future she plans to continue her education in the field of national and international security. Her interests are studies of terrorism, hybrid warfare, and regional security.
Contest Material: Antimaidan Movement and National Security PUBLISHED MATERIAL: |
Beka Avgarozashvili
| Beka is an MA student at the Ilia State University, faculty of Social and Political Sciences, focusing on Media Studies. Beka’s main research interests are media as a political and social issue and theories of mass communication, therefore is planning to write the MA thesis on the topic of disinformation and media literacy. Beka plans to continue this research on the PhD level.
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Archil Tsivilashvili
| Archil Tsivilashvili is a third-year student at Tbilisi State University, faculty of Social and Political Sciences. He is also a member of an NGO – Georgian Association For Equality (GAFE). Archil is an alum of Erasmus+ Jean Monnet Module winter school “Europe and Democratization: EU and Georgia”. He is interested in research, often takes part in academic conferences.
Contest Material: Conservatism – The Russian Soft Power PUBLISHED MATERIAL: |
Dachi Mazanashvili
| Dachi has acquired BA (Black Sea International University, 2020) and MA (Southern Illinois University, 2022) in International Relations. In 2020-2022 he was working as a research assistant at South Illinois University. Works authored by him were accepted at conferences – MPSA (Midwest Political Science Association) and PSA ECN (Political Studies Association Early Career Network). He is a graduate of Digital Sherlock, project by Atlantic Council/DFR LAb. His main interests are: post-Communist democratization, Austrian Economic School, and politics of post-Soviet space. Dachi has been actively involved in researching strategies of multiethnic political parties and the cause of difference of opinions among the Judges in European courts.
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Ana Chubinidze
| Ana graduated from Tbilisi State University, with a BA in Political Sciences. She is now a professor’s assistant on the same program. She has a long experience of volunteering, and is currently actively working with and participating in programs of various NGOs. Ana is a participant of a scholarship program by Friedrich Neumann Stiftung. Her interests include global governance and international security.
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Nona Tsirgiladze
| Nona is a graduate of Ilia State University with a degree in Political Sciences, minor in film studies. She knows English, French, and Ivrit. Her experience of internship in media sparked her interest in the field. Nona especially enjoys the process of fact checking. She is also interested in Social and Cultural Anthropology, and writing about cinema.
Contest Material: Israel-Hammas War: Disinformation and Violence PUBLISHED MATERIAL: FALSE INFORMATION ABOUT THE PARIS OLYMPICS DISSEMINATES UNDER THE NAME OF FRENCH OUTLETS |
