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No, Putin is not winning Georgia away from Europe. Here are the facts.
[Editor's Note: This post was originally published on the Washington Post's Monkey Cage on Monday, December 21, 2015. The original post is available here. The views and opinions expressed in this...
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People to rely on - Georgians and their social networks
[In this last blog post of 2015, CRRC Researcher Tamuna Khoshtaria reflects on one the most important aspects of Georgian society – people to rely on, i.e. relatives, friends, neighbors.]When I was...
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Georgian society’s attitudes towards forced ‘volunteering’
Although the history and contextual background of volunteering in Europe vary from country to country, in most western societies, the development of volunteerism is associated with the emergence of...
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The Georgian public’s awareness of visa liberalisation with the EU: Facts and...
The visa liberalisation agreement between Georgia and the EU is expected to enter in force in Summer 2016, allowing Georgian citizens holding biometric passports to enter and stay in Schengen area...
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The Georgian public's perceptions of the EU’s and Russia’s influence on the...
Numerous news reports in 2015 focused on foreign influence in Georgia (for instance, see the Financial Times, The Washington Post, Al Jazeera, the Wall Street Journal, Foreign Policy, the BBC, Foreign...
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Playing on traditions: Has Russia’s propaganda worked?
Has Russian influence in Georgia increased in recent years? While the political elite and civil society leaders argue a lot about this issue, in an August 2015 survey, CRRC and NDI asked people what...
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Dwellings in Georgia's cities
View of Tbilisi from Turtle Lake (Photo by Mariam Kobaladze)According to the World Bank, Georgia has become more urbanized since the collapse of the Soviet Union. The shift from a planned to a market...
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Trends in Scientific Output in the South Caucasus: 1996-2012
Increases in the quantity of peer reviewed publications, on the one hand, and citations, on the other hand, are believed to measure scientific progress. In the 1960s, efforts to document, explore and...
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What the population of Georgia wants to know about the EU and how people want...
The Government of Georgia (GoG) recently announced a plan to better inform the public about European Union (EU) programs in Georgia and their benefits. This effort is important, because the population...
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Volunteerism in Georgia between 2013 and 2015: attitudes and practice
Did the 2015 Tbilisi flood affect the level of volunteerism in Georgia? A recent article on volunteerism, based on CRRC’s 2013 Caucasus Barometer (CB) survey data, argued that the apparent large-scale...
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The population of Georgia on immigrants
Unlike emigration, immigration to Georgia is a relatively recent and small in scale phenomenon. The country attracts a diverse group of immigrants from a variety of countries that arrive for...
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Changing issue salience in Georgia after 2008
While territorial integrity was named by the majority of the population as the most important issue facing Georgia in late 2008 and 2009, in the aftermath of the 2008 war with Russia, the focus has...
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From ‘altruist’ to ‘realist’: changing perceptions of the EU in Georgia
There has been a slowdown in the EU’s ‘values promotion’ in the former Soviet space, according to a recent publication by The Foreign Policy Center. As Frederica Mogherini, High Representative of the...
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Attitudes toward public opinion polls in Georgia
In his book Polling and the Public Herbert Asher notes that findings of public opinion polls have significant effects on citizens’ attitudes and behavior. This is clearly true in Georgia where public...
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The population of Georgia on “good citizenship”
Although many people agree that being “a good citizen” is important, there is a great variety of ideas on what being “a good citizen” means. CRRC’s 2013 and 2015 Caucasus Barometer (CB) surveys asked...
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How the EU sees Georgia: The Georgian population's perceptions
Although a majority of the population of Georgia approves of the Government of Georgia’s stated goal to join the European Union (EU), reported trust in the EU declined between 2011 and 2015. According...
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Trends in the Data: Public support for democracy is slowly waning in Georgia
Following the first ever peaceful transition of power in Georgia’s 2012 parliamentary elections, the country improved its position in the Freedom House and Polity IV democracy rankings. Results from...
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Fearing for the children – how living with children affects homophobic...
Following the controversial events of May 17, 2013, CRRC-Georgia conducted a survey in order to gauge the opinions and attitudes of the adult residents of Tbilisi towards homosexuals and their rights....
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The fury before the storm
The Georgian Parliamentary by-elections held on October 31, 2015 are regarded by some Georgia watchers as a ‘final rehearsal’ for the 2016 general elections, and the results have been hotly debated....
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