Saba Pipia is an Associate Professor at the Georgian-American University (Tbilisi, Georgia). He holds Ph.D. degree from Tbilisi State University. Throughout his doctoral and post-doctoral studies, he was a visiting researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law (Heidelberg, Germany); The University of Groningen (Groningen, The Netherlands); Aristotle University (Thessaloniki, Greece); Jerusalem Institute of Justice (Jerusalem, Israel). He was invited lecturer at the University of Porto (Portugal) and the University of Iasi (Romania). He is the author of the monograph ‘The International Law of Belligerent Occupation’ (published in 2020 in Georgian). Areas of his research include international humanitarian law, international criminal law, international environmental law, and global animal law.
July 28, 2021
Saba Pipia
On 23 June 2021, multiple reports (here and here) suggested that the British warship HMS Defender sailing in the Black Sea en route to Georgia, found itself involved in maritime tensions offshore of the Crimean Peninsula. Reports were officially confirmed the same evening by the Ministry of Defence of Russia stating that Britain violated…
February 4, 2021
Saba Pipia
In November 2020 the President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, held a meeting with the head of Georgia’s breakaway region of Abkhazia to discuss relations between Russia and the de facto entity. According to the Abkhaz leader, an agreement was reached to restore the functioning of the Sokhumi airport. Russian plans to renovate the airport…
July 28, 2021
Saba Pipia
On 23 June 2021, multiple reports (here and here) suggested that the British warship HMS Defender sailing in the Black Sea en route to Georgia, found itself involved in maritime tensions offshore of the Crimean Peninsula. Reports were officially confirmed the same evening by the Ministry of Defence of Russia stating that Britain violated…
February 4, 2021
Saba Pipia
In November 2020 the President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, held a meeting with the head of Georgia’s breakaway region of Abkhazia to discuss relations between Russia and the de facto entity. According to the Abkhaz leader, an agreement was reached to restore the functioning of the Sokhumi airport. Russian plans to renovate the airport…