Lelo MP
Salome Samadashvili

Education

1997 - Allegheny College, Political sciences and phylosophy

2002 - Central European University, Constitutional Law

2001 - University of America, Public administration

Professional Experience

2016 - present - University of Georgia, International Relations and Political Sciences Department, Director

2015 - present - University of Georgia, guest lecturer

2014 - 2015 - US NDI Libya Parliamentary Program, Director

2013 - 2014 - Martens Center for European Studies, honorary researcher

2005 - 2013 - Georgian Mission to EU, Head, Ambassador of Georgia to Belgium and Luxemburg

2002 - 2004 - NDI, Head of the Parliamentary Program

2001 - 2001 - International Center for Education and Arts, program specialist

2000 - 2001 - Washington University, USA, Assistant to the Professor

1998 - 1998 - Embassy of Georgia to USA, Chief of Chancellery

1997 - 1998 - Monterey Institute of International Studies, Herbert Scoville Fellow

Honorary Degree

The Presidential Order of Excellence (01 Nov 2011)

Prime Minister of Georgia
Irakli Gharibashvili
President of Georgia
Salome Zurabishvili
Special Representative of the Prime Minister for Relations with Russia
Zurab Abashidze
Salome Samadashvili - I want to tell all the victims of the regime: you have found a new important mechanism to hold the regime accountable for all violations
Salome Samadashvili - Georgian Dream is quickly becoming like a person falling into a swamp, sinking deeper with every new move
Salome Samadashvili: The environment for European diplomats in Georgia is more hostile than in Russia - as for Iran, no matter who is in power today, everyone would have to take a very cautious position
Salome Samadashvili - Ivanishvili's regime will have to comply with the sanctions imposed on their propaganda channels and will have to comply with other sanctions that the West will impose against them in the future
Salome Samadashvili: The National Bank is today effectively "in the pocket" of "Georgian Dream" - any movement in the banks and financial system will trigger an economic collapse tsunami - Turnava has established herself as a recidivist
Salome Samadashvili - Georgian Dream is trying to bring Georgia back under the full political rule of Russia - Shalva Papuashvili's statementabout cadets is cynicism and an insult to the memory of the cadets
Salome Samadashvili: The recent changes are a manifestation of the government’s weakness - The law will be appealed, including to the European Court of Human Rights, because it contradicts the Convention
Salome Samadashvili: The Bolsheviks dealt with Georgian society even faster - they loaded people into wagons and shot them; the goal today is the same: purging society of undesirable elements - thinking, conscientious, and patriotic citizens
Salome Samadashvili: New, free, and democratic elections are the only way to end this imitative surrealism, calm the country, and return it to its natural path of development
Salome Samadashvili - The finale of "silence" is the same for everyone: the collapse of freedom - it's time for everyone to at least throw down the flag of a bankrupt regime, if they are afraid to raise the banner of truth
Salome Samadashvili: Garibashvili’s arrest is not connected to the fight against corruption even formally - we do not even know how much money he stole, if he stole any, or how he stole it - this has nothing to do with the rule of law either
Salome Samadashvili - Ivanishvili's provincial autocracy servants are afraid to say anything about Trump - Trump conducted a special operation in Venezuela, Maduro is being tried in New York, and Papuashvili is still cursing Brussels
Salome Samadashvili - The European Union is not asking for sanctions, but for an economic regime to be created that will protect us, and prevent the country from being used to evade sanctions - I suspect that Arab investment is also a means of laundering Russian money
Salome Samadashvili – It is important to use this political support from the European Union to fully investigate what substance Bidzina Ivanishvili's regime poisoned its own citizens with last year
Salome Samadashvili: The request to ban ‘Lelo’ has already been filed; this regime needs no formal grounds to destroy pro-European political forces – I also assume they may additionally use Elisashvili’s case
Salome Samadashvili: The legal persecution of opposition figures, combined with party bans, is an attempt at the total destruction of the opposition — a Russian-style political system is being created
The Economist publishes an article titled: “Georgia is dousing the last embers of democracy”
Salome Samadashvili: "Georgian Dream's" next step will be recognizing the occupied territories' independent status, which is not a thought cooked up in Kobakhidze's and Ivanishvili's heads; they have orders, because Russia is preparing for border demarcation
The South Caucasus: Strategic Autonomy Needed
Estonian Ambassador: I will be leaving Tbilisi later this week - Does my departure reflect the current state of relations between Georgia and Estonia? Of course it does - I cannot hide that
UAE’s Minister of State for International Cooperation Reem Al Hashimy - “We will leave no stone unturned to make sure that we do defend ourselves”