OFFICE:
Georgian National Museum (GNM)
The Museum of the Soviet Occupation
Shota Rustaveli Ave. 3
Tbilisi 0105
Republic of Georgia
Tel.: +995 322 998022

DATE AND PLACE OF BIRTH: February 7, 1964, Tbilisi (Capital of the Republic of Georgia).

NATIONALITY: Georgian.

AREA OF INTEREST:

History of Georgia and the Caucasus of the XVI-XX centuries, Source Studies of the history of Georgia and the Caucasus, history of the Intercultural Relations of the Caucasian Nations, history of the National-Liberation Movement of Georgia of 1801-1917 and 1921-1991, history of the Georgian Political Emigration, the Rights of Scholars, Geopolitics of Georgia and the Caucasus, the Rights of the Nations, journalistic (publicistic).

CURRENT APPOINTMENTS:

November 15, 2006 - Present - Senior Research Fellow of the Georgian National Museum - Scientific Co-ordinator of the Museum of the Soviet Occupation (Tbilisi).

November 2, 2012 - Present - Chairman of the Public Movement "Georgia for Human Rights and Democracy" (GHRD. Tbilisi).

PAST APPOINTMENTS:

1981-1986 - Student of the Faculty of Oriental Studies of the Tbilisi State University (TSU).
1986-1989 - Post-Graduate Student of the Javakhishvili Institute of History and Ethnology, Tbilisi.
1989-1995 - Research Fellow of the Javakhishvili Institute of History and Ethnology, Tbilisi.
1991-1995 - Co-founder and Own Correspondent of the Independent Newspaper "Tavisupali Sakartvelo" ("Free Georgia"), Tbilisi.
1991 - Political Reviewer of the Radio-station "Tavisupali Sakartvelo" (Tbilisi).
1991-1997 - Member of the Governing Board and Press-Secretary of the Georgian Helsinki Union (GHU).
1995-2003 - Editor-in-Chief of the Independent Information-Analytical Bulletin "Adamianis Uplebebi" ("Human Rights"), Tbilisi. In 1998 "Adamianis Uplebebi" was officially nominated by the Netherlands Helsinki Union (NHU) to the Conrad N. Hilton International Humanitarian Prize.
1993-1997 - Head of the Tbilisi Working Group of the International Society for Human Rights (ISHR-IGFM).
1997-2000 - President of the Georgian National Section of the International Society for Human Rights (ISHR-IGFM).
1997-2001 - Executive Secretary of the Tbilisi Working Group of the Netherlands Helsinki Union (NHU).
1998-2000 - Executive Secretary of the Georgian National Section of Euroscience (European Association for the Promotion of Science and Technology), Tbilisi.
1998-2004 - Chairman of the International Association "CAUCASUS: Ethnic Relations, Human Rights, Geopolitics" (IACERHRG), Tbilisi.
2000-2006 - Chairman of the Georgian National Section of Euroscience (ESGNS).
2004-2006 - Senior Research Fellow of the Javakhishvili Institute of History and Ethnology, Tbilisi.
2005-2008 - Humanitarian Ambassador of the Regency of Lomar in Georgia.
2008-2009 - Member of the Council - Head of the Department of the Humanities of the Georgian National Section of Euroscience.

EDUCATION:

1986 - M.Sc. in History (Department of Oriental Studies of the Tbilisi State University, Diploma with Honours).
1990 - Ph.D. in History (The Javakhishvili Institute of History and Ethnology, Tbilisi).
2006 - Doctor of Historical Sciences (Full Doctor, The Javakhishvili Institute of History and Ethnology).

2) The problems of the history of Georgia in the 20th century Turkish historiography. Edited by Prof. Dr. Giuli Alasania, Tbilisi, Publishing House "Metsniereba", 1994, 215 pp. (In Georgian, Summary in English), ISBN 5-520-01317-9;

3) Europe and the Georgian Political Emigration, edited by Prof. Dr. Giuli Alasania, Publishing House "Ena da Kultura", Tbilisi, 2005, 95 pp. (In Georgian, English summary), ISBN 99940-23-20-8;

4) The notion of a Nation and some questions of the Self-determination of the Nations (Peoples), edited by Prof. Dr. Giuli Alasania, Publishing House "Ena da Kultura", Tbilisi, 2005, 40 pp. (In Georgian, English summary), ISBN 99940-23-50-0.

5) Some Questions of the History of Georgia and the Caucasus in the Georgian Emigrant Literature, edited by Prof. Dr. Giuli Alasania, Publishing House "Ena da Kultura", Tbilisi, 2005, 115 pp. (In Georgian, English summary), ISBN 99940-23-92-6.

6) On history of the Georgian patriotic political organization "Tetri Giorgi".- J. "Amirani", XXI, Montreal-Tbilisi, 2009, ISSN 1512-0449, pp. 166-205 (In Georgian, English summary).

7) For the History of Georgian-Ossetian Cultural and Scientific Relations (Makharbek Tuganov and Georgia), edited by Prof. Giuli Alasania. Publishing House "Universali", Tbilisi, 2009, 63 pp. (In Georgian and English), ISBN 978-9941-12-879-0.

8) How history should not be written. Edited by Prof. Dodona Kiziria. Publishing House "Universali", Tbilisi, 2011, 123 pp. (In Georgian, English summary), ISBN 978-9941-17-251-9.

9) For the Biography of General Konstantine (Kote) Abkhazi. - "Bulletin of the Georgian National Museum. Seeries of Social Sciences", N 3 (47-B), Tbilisi, 2012, pp. 207-226 (In Georgian, English summary).

10) The Immortal Soul (Professor Mikhako Tsereteli). Edited by Dr. Maia Tsereteli. Publishing House "Artanuji", Tbilisi, 2012, 258 pp. (In Georgian).

Dr. Urushadze is author of more than 300 journalistic papers also.

L I N K S:

The World Academy of Art and Science (WAAS)
The Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland (RAS)
Fulbright Academy of Science & Technology (FAST)
The Royal Society of New Zealand (RSNZ)
Georgian National Museum
The Public Movement "Georgia for Human Rights and Democracy" (GHRD)
Euroscience
The Museum of the Soviet Occupation
Nonviolent Radical Party Transnational and Transparty
The "Wall Street Journal" about the Museum of the Soviet Occupation
The "History under Debate" Network (HuD)
Dictionary of Georgian National Biography (DGNB)
Society of Assyriologists, Bibliologists and Caucasiologists (SABC)
European Network in Universal and Global History (ENIUGH)
Commission of History of International Relations (CHIR)
Free World Academy (FWA)
WASET (World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology)

ELECTRONIC ARTICLES:

KARTULI IDEA - THE GEORGIAN IDEA (About the History of the National-Liberation Movement of Georgia)
THE BAGRATIONI ROYAL DYNASTY OF GEORGIA
The questions of history of Georgia in the Georgian Emigrant Literature
President Zviad K. Gamsakhurdia (1939-1993)
Democratic Republic of Georgia (1918-1921)
Peculiarities of the Stalinist totalitarism in Georgia of 1921-1953 (in Russian)