The first generation to grow up under Putin’s regime opposes his politics, as Sunday’s protests across the country show. And as activists declare it was not all about Navalny and Medvedev.
Mariam is from Tbilisi, Georgia. She’s a graduate from the Free University of Tbilisi, where she studied governance and social sciences. She worked for several news agencies as a reporter specializing in international politics.
Other than that she’s a devoted liberty activist and works with NGOs, activist groups, and grassroots movements in the South Caucasus region and throughout Europe. From 2015 she has been an organizer of a civic campaign which has been launched to counter the rise in anti-western messages and propaganda in the Caucasus region.
She speaks English, Russian and French and is passionate about philosophy, biotechnology and the future of Artificial Intelligence.