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To be published: Q2 2026
Batons and Khachapuri. Notes from Georgia. From September 2024 to September 2025, Georgia underwent a transformation—from a young democracy with a pro-European orientation to a state ruled by a single party, where fear, censorship, and the systematic elimination of the opposition reign supreme. In the space of a single year, a gradual but relentless transformation took place. The book follows how the change took place – month by month. The author is a young Czech woman who spent a year in Georgia as a researcher, but instead of doing her usual fieldwork, she witnessed a dramatic social upheaval.
Her narrative intertwines personal experiences with interviews with journalists, civil activists, and ordinary people from different regions and social strata, including representatives of ethnic minorities and supporters of the ruling party. Each of them copes with the new reality in a different way. The book describes the collapse of independent media under pressure from new legislation, the intimidation of protesters, and the transformation of public space. It is a portrait of a society that lost its illusions in a single year—but not its dignity and courage. This book is not only a report from the scene of the crime, but also a call to reflection: how easily freedom can disappear—and how difficult it is to defend it.
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| Author: | Eva Karlíková |
| Number of pages: | 236 |
| Year of publication: | 2026 |
| Issue number: | 1 |
| Publication number: | 56 |
| ISBN: | 978-80-88411-48-2 |
| Binding: | paperback with flaps |