Vice Prime Minister, Minister of Culture, Sports and Youth of Georgia
Tea Tsulukiani

Biography, according to Government Administration

"Born in 1975, Ms Thea Tsulukiani was appointed as Minister of Justice of Georgia in October 2012. Prior to her appointment, she was elected as a Member of Parliament for Nazaladevi, a single mandate constituency of Tbilisi, with 72% of the vote.

Ms Tsulukiani has 10 years of experience as a lawyer at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg (ECHR) where at the same time she served as a member of the Committee for Rules of Court and as a rapporteur on the cases examined by single-judge compositions (2000-2010).

In 1997-1998, Ms Tsulukiani worked for the Foreign Affairs Analysis Center at the MFA of Georgia under the guidance of Mr A. Rondeli.

Ms Tsulukiani holds MPA degree from École Nationale d'administration (ENA) in France(Averroès 1998-2000). She also holds a Master's degree in international law and international relations from the Tbilisi State University (1997) and a Master's degree in international politology from the Academy of Diplomacy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia (1998).

In her capacity as a Minister of Justice, Ms Tsulukiani led bold reforms in the area of the rule of law and independence of the judiciary, human rights, open government and anticorruption. Amongst many others, she conducted complex and inclusive process in order to have the Istanbul Convention ratified by Georgia (2017) as well as to introduce the Juvenile Justice Code (2015), the Law of Georgia on Mediation (2019), the Law of Georgia on Rehabilitation of Companies (2020), the Law of Georgia on the Disabled (2020), etc.

Ms Tsulukiani was the chairperson of up to 13 Inter-agency Councils in the Government of Georgia, among them the Criminal Justice Reform Council, the Private Law Reform Council, the Anticorruption Council, the Anti-drug Council, the Anti-torture Council and the Anti-trafficking Council as well as the State Commission on Migration Issues and the Inter-agency Commission for Free and Fair Election.

In 2015-2018 Minister Tsulukiani served as a chairperson of the Prosecutorial Council of Georgia.

As of July 2018 Ms Tsulukiani initiated the new wave of penitentiary reform aiming at development of modern penitentiary and crime prevention systems.

As the Justice Minister, Ms Tsulukiani has been leading the humanitarian mission to repatriate Georgian minors from conflict areas in the Middle East to Georgia.

In September 2019 Ms Tsulukiani was appointed as a Vice-Prime Minister of Georgia.

In October 2020 she was elected as a Member of Parliament (party list) and served as the Head of the Committee for Education, Science and Culture.

On 22 March 2021 she was appointed as Minister of Culture, Sports and Youth.

Ms Tsulukiani married in 2017 and has a 4 years-old daughter.

Political Membership:

Vice-Chair of the party and Head of the Women Movement, Party of Free Democrats (May 2010-October 2012);

Member, Party of Free Democrats - Georgian Dream Coalition - (2011-2014);

Member, Party of Georgian Dream (2020-..);

Member of the Political Council, Party of Georgian Dream (2021-..)."

Special Representative of the Prime Minister for Relations with Russia
Zurab Abashidze
Speaker of Parliament of Georgia
Shalva Papuashvili
Minister of Justice of Georgia
Rati Bregadze
Tina Bokuchava - We appeal to the judges of the Constitutional Court not to accept the shameful lawsuit, its real goal is to establish a dictatorship - it is tantamount to the abolition of not any party, but the Constitutional Court
Paata Burchuladze: From this moment on, the Ministry of Internal Affairs must obey the Georgian people, not Bidzina Ivanishvili - we must demand the immediate capture and imprisonment of six members of the Dream
Salome Samadashvili: We are dealing with a simple, pre-election PR in the form of Tsulukiani's commission - they are trying to mobilize their remaining few voters
Tea Tsulukiani: We have decided to use the commission's conclusion as a basis for initiating procedures in the Constitutional Court, the goal of which will be to ban the political activities of the National Movement and its members
Salome Zurabishvili: We must not forget that for every brick laid for justice, eleven bricks of injustice have been laid. No one is guilty; there is not a single piece of evidence in any case, and these are well-known tactics from Russian practice
The Parliament adopted a special resolution regarding the conclusions of the temporary investigative commission - The resolution was supported by 85 deputies at the plenary session
Tazo Datunashvili: Refusing the mandates was the right decision; it brought about the delegitimization of the “Dream” party, and moving in the opposite direction will bring nothing good to the main goal; As for Tsulukiani, she presented complete nonsense – the author of the unhealthy environment is Ivanishvili himself
Tina Bokuchava: The country has been taken over by a gang of anti-Georgian, anti-national traitorous criminals who, on Putin's orders, are trying to rewrite recent history and blame the war on Georgia - we must end the chronicle of betrayal
Tea Tsulukiani: NGOs, Coalition for Change, Strong Georgia and Gakharia for Georgia, together with Mikheil Saakashvili, are hindering the formation of a healthy political system in Georgia
Parliament hears conclusion of temporary investigative commission
Parliament’s autumn session to open on September 2
Salome Samadashvili: The purpose of the Russian commission's conclusion is to restrict and then ban the activities of all democratic and pro-European parties in Georgia - such is Russia's task!
Tina Bokuchava on investigative commission: This is a treason commission ordered by Russia - Soviet executioner Tea Tsulukiani will not be able to rewrite Georgian history, they will not be able to harm the National Movement
Tea Tsulukiani: The commission's conclusion will not be made public today - we will probably present it at the plenary session in the first days of September
Parliamentary Temporary Investigative Commission submits draft conclusion consisting of 430 pages
Parliament’s Temporary Investigative Commission to hold its last session on August 4 and approve its conclusion
Tea Tsulukiani sues Nanuka Zhorzholiani for defamation
Tina Bokuchava: How many parents of political prisoners must the “Russian-Dream” regime kill for us to get so angry and revolted that we make resistance of the regime pointless?
Ambassador of Korea Hyon Du KIM - Korea’s strength lies in high-tech manufacturing while Georgia’s strength is in logistics and service areas - Georgia should not be just considered as a single market but as a market that can encompass the region and beyond
Oleksii Reznikov - Russia, in reality, is a paper tiger