The December edition of Eurasia Critic contains a quite extraordinary contribution, entitled: ‘Academy of Sciences of Georgia, Technical University of Georgia, Tbilisi State University and Tbilisi State Medical University 52 Professors: Petition'. Read more

As the USSR was moving towards collapse, its final census (1989) counted 3,787,393 ‘Georgians' in Soviet Georgia. The quotation marks indicate my doubts about the legitimacy of the decision taken around 1930 to so classify speakers of the four Kartvelian languages (Georgian, Mingrelian, Laz, Svan). Read more

As the USSR was moving towards collapse, its final census (1989) counted 3,787,393 ‘Georgians' in Soviet Georgia. The quotation-marks indicate my doubts about the legitimacy of the decision taken around 1930 so to classify speakers of the four Kartvelian languages (Georgian, Mingrelian, Laz, Svan). Read more

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