Interview with Giorgi "Gia" Karkarashvili, - Commander of the Georgian Troops (Georgian-Abkhazian War), Tbilissi, Georgia, 30 November 2016 (RU)

Giorgi “Gia” Karkarashvili was born in Tbilisi in 1966 and is a former Soviet army captain and graduate of the Tbilisi Higher Artillery Command School. In 1991, he joined one of the paramilitary units that was later merged into the National Guard of (the newly independent Republic of) Georgia. He fo...

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Main Authors: Anne Le Huérou, Silvia Serrano
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Centre d'Etudes et de Recherche sur les Sociétés et les Institutions Post-Soviétiques 2019-11-01
Series:Journal of Power Institutions in Post-Soviet Societies
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/pipss/5730
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spelling doaj-282036ffb74f454c9686e4dc75602af72020-11-25T03:06:13ZdeuCentre d'Etudes et de Recherche sur les Sociétés et les Institutions Post-SoviétiquesJournal of Power Institutions in Post-Soviet Societies1769-70692019-11-012010.4000/pipss.5730Interview with Giorgi "Gia" Karkarashvili, - Commander of the Georgian Troops (Georgian-Abkhazian War), Tbilissi, Georgia, 30 November 2016 (RU)Anne Le HuérouSilvia SerranoGiorgi “Gia” Karkarashvili was born in Tbilisi in 1966 and is a former Soviet army captain and graduate of the Tbilisi Higher Artillery Command School. In 1991, he joined one of the paramilitary units that was later merged into the National Guard of (the newly independent Republic of) Georgia. He fought in South Ossetia and Abkhazia and also took part in confrontations involving supporters of Zviad Gamsakhurdia, independent Georgia’s first president. He was assigned command of Georgian troops in Abkhazia and became one of the country’s most respected army officers. Karkarashvili served as Georgia’s defense minister between May 1993 and March 1994 and was subsequently severely wounded in an attack in Moscow in January 1995. He returned to Georgia and was elected to parliament in 1999 and again in 2003. In 2008, Karkarashvili publicly criticized the Georgian government for its responsibility in the outbreak of the August war with the Russian Federation.http://journals.openedition.org/pipss/5730Georgian-Abkhazian WarSouth Ossetia War2008 War
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Interview with Giorgi "Gia" Karkarashvili, - Commander of the Georgian Troops (Georgian-Abkhazian War), Tbilissi, Georgia, 30 November 2016 (RU)
Journal of Power Institutions in Post-Soviet Societies
Georgian-Abkhazian War
South Ossetia War
2008 War
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Silvia Serrano
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title Interview with Giorgi "Gia" Karkarashvili, - Commander of the Georgian Troops (Georgian-Abkhazian War), Tbilissi, Georgia, 30 November 2016 (RU)
title_short Interview with Giorgi "Gia" Karkarashvili, - Commander of the Georgian Troops (Georgian-Abkhazian War), Tbilissi, Georgia, 30 November 2016 (RU)
title_full Interview with Giorgi "Gia" Karkarashvili, - Commander of the Georgian Troops (Georgian-Abkhazian War), Tbilissi, Georgia, 30 November 2016 (RU)
title_fullStr Interview with Giorgi "Gia" Karkarashvili, - Commander of the Georgian Troops (Georgian-Abkhazian War), Tbilissi, Georgia, 30 November 2016 (RU)
title_full_unstemmed Interview with Giorgi "Gia" Karkarashvili, - Commander of the Georgian Troops (Georgian-Abkhazian War), Tbilissi, Georgia, 30 November 2016 (RU)
title_sort interview with giorgi "gia" karkarashvili, - commander of the georgian troops (georgian-abkhazian war), tbilissi, georgia, 30 november 2016 (ru)
publisher Centre d'Etudes et de Recherche sur les Sociétés et les Institutions Post-Soviétiques
series Journal of Power Institutions in Post-Soviet Societies
issn 1769-7069
publishDate 2019-11-01
description Giorgi “Gia” Karkarashvili was born in Tbilisi in 1966 and is a former Soviet army captain and graduate of the Tbilisi Higher Artillery Command School. In 1991, he joined one of the paramilitary units that was later merged into the National Guard of (the newly independent Republic of) Georgia. He fought in South Ossetia and Abkhazia and also took part in confrontations involving supporters of Zviad Gamsakhurdia, independent Georgia’s first president. He was assigned command of Georgian troops in Abkhazia and became one of the country’s most respected army officers. Karkarashvili served as Georgia’s defense minister between May 1993 and March 1994 and was subsequently severely wounded in an attack in Moscow in January 1995. He returned to Georgia and was elected to parliament in 1999 and again in 2003. In 2008, Karkarashvili publicly criticized the Georgian government for its responsibility in the outbreak of the August war with the Russian Federation.
topic Georgian-Abkhazian War
South Ossetia War
2008 War
url http://journals.openedition.org/pipss/5730
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