Today I’m speaking with Nino Kalandadze. Nino is a classmate from the Global Master of Arts Programme (GMAP) at the Fletcher School that we both completed. Nino grew up in the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic and read law in Germany as the Soviet Union broke apart. She returned to her country to take part in shaping its fledgling institutions and politics through some of its most dramatic moments of recent history. Nino recounts her experience growing up in Communist Georgia; her first impressions living in Germany; her memories as newly appointed to the foreign service and having to respond to the growing military conflict with Russia; her interactions with the public as Member of Parliament; her work after leaving party politics. Nino radiates the energy of her convictions and belief in change.
Recorded on 1 October 2021.
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