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Place of Birth: Tbilisi, Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, Georgia
About Giga Bokeria
- Giorgi (Giga) Bokeria (Georgian: ?????? (????) ???????, born 20 April 1972 in Tbilisi) is a Georgian politician and was the secretary of the National Security Council of Georgia from November 2010 to November 2013.
- He is currently one of the leaders of the Movement for Freedom-European Georgia.
- From 1989 to 1995, Bokeria was one of the leaders of various student movements, in particular an active member of the Press Club of Tbilisi State University.
- In 1992, he began working as a journalist, in the newspaper 7 Dge (7 Days), as a political editor of newspaper Mimomkhilveli (Observer) - 1992–1993, journalist with the Pikis Saati (Rush Hour) program of Channel 1 of State Radio -1993, journalist of Radio Liberty - 1994, political editor of newspaper Argumenti (Argument) - 1995–1996, Akcentebi (Accents) talk show host of Rustavi 2 broadcasting company - 1996.In 1996, together with Levan Ramishvili, Givi Targamadze and David Zurabishvili, Bokeria co-founded the Liberty Institute, a Georgian non-profit, non-partisan, liberal public policy advocacy foundation, taking the job of coordinating human rights programs and later the position of senior legal advisor. In 2003, after a visit to Serbia to study peaceful revolution techniques, Bokeria helped bring Serb activists from the youth movement Otpor! to Georgia to train students in the same techniques.
- As a result, the youth movement "Kmara" was established, which played a leading role in the November 2003 Rose Revolution.
- After the Revolution, Bokeria was elected to Parliament where he has authored a number laws to strengthen human rights in Georgia.Bokeria has been a Member of Parliament since 2004.
- He is the Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Legal Issues and is a Member of Committee on Defense and Security.
- Since 2005 he is Vice-President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) and vice-chairman of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe group in the assembly.
- In April 2008, he was moved to the post of deputy Foreign Minister of Georgia, and in November 2010 to Secretary of the National Security Council.
- He resigned on 15 November 2013 after Georgia elected its new president, Giorgi Margvelashvili.
- He was succeeded by the Georgian Dream lawmaker Irina Imerlishvili.
- Bokeria is married to Tamara Chergoleishvili, editor-in-chief of the Tbilisi-based magazine Tabula (??????).
- Bokeria's mother is the chess grandmaster Nana Alexandria.
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