• Research Associate, Caucasus

Givi Gigitashvili

Givi Gigitashvili is a research associate for the Caucasus at the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFRLab) based in Georgia.

Givi has gathered versatile professional and research experience through engaging with various think tanks in Estonia, Latvia, Ukraine, Germany, and Poland. Most recently he held the International Development Consultant’s position, providing research and consultancy services to a wide range of public and private clients in Eastern European countries. Givi’s professional interests include, but are not limited to the politics of ex-Soviet countries, the EU-Russia relations, and the Eastern Partnership programme.

Givi was born in Kvareli, Georgia and graduated from Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University with a bachelor’s in Social Sciences. Givi continued his studies at the University of Tartu in Estonia, where he obtained master’s degree in the EU-Russia studies in 2016. After receiving his education, Givi did two internships in Berlin and Warsaw. In September 2017, Givi joined an International Research and Consulting Company Ecorys Poland as an International Development Consultant and stayed in the company until June 2019. In August 2019, Givi joined the Atlantic Council as a Research Assistant based in Tbilisi, Georgia.

June 2023

Coordinated Telegram channels aggregate anti-Ukrainian news from around the globe

by Givi Gigitashvili, Esteban Ponce de León

Network promotes anti-Ukrainian news from multiple countries while heavily amplifying content from a Telegram channel allegedly affiliated with Yevgeny Prigozhin's RIA FAN news agency
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May 2023

Russian War Report: Russia fires barrage at Kyiv while UK promises ‘kamikaze’ drones

by Digital Forensic Research Lab

A series of Russian missile strikes directed at Kyiv were largely intercepted while the UK promises hundreds of drones. In Poland, a missile "cover up" controversy.
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May 2023

Russian War Report: Russia wages an invisible war with radar waves and Russian music across borders

by Digital Forensic Research Lab

Russian surveillance has increased on Ukraine's border. Meanwhile a museum in Estonia hung a large poster depicting Putin as a war criminal.
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