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IRINA TSERTSVADZE
Bakhtrioni Str.39. Apt.40
Tbilisi. Georgia 0194
+995 32 28 13 92 Office
+995 99 56 07 45 Cell phone
Professional Experience :
2008-present Georgian Parliament, Committee on European Integration
Executive Assistant of the Chairman
Tbilisi. Georgia
Obligations:
  • Working as an editor of the Committee monthly newsletter “European Time” on Georgia EU relations.)financed by (Konrad Adenauer Foundation).
  • Anchoring every week radio program “European Time” about EU -Georgia Relations.(joint with Konrad Adenaur Foundation).
  • Working on analytical materials for the committee meetings with EU related NGOs and governmental organizations.
  • Responsible for renewing Committees web-page.
  • Writing reports on Committee Chair-mans meetings.
  • Planning regional visits of the Chair-man of the Committee on European Integration.
2009 -2010
Foreign Language News Broadcasting Georgian Service “Voice of America”
International Broadcaster
WashingtonDC. USA
Obligations:
  • Anchoring radio-show.
  • Shooting original video stories for VOA Georgian.
  • Editing, translating recording.
  • Versioning house stories for Georgian auditorium.
  • Covering related to Georgian events in WashingtonDC.
  • Making TV and Radio Interviews about related to Georgia topics with American experts and politicians.
  • Preparing every week rubrics for radio-show :“Youth “ and “Washington Today”
  • Translating, recording and editing house backgrounder reports.
2007-2008 Georgian Public Broadcaster (GPB)
Moscow office chief
Moscow. Russia
Obligations:
  • Providing GPB with political news from Moscow and Russian region every day.
  • Making live broadcasts for political- informational program “Moambe” 4 times a week.
  • Covering the situation in hot spot or Northern Caucasus Region (Republics of Ingushetia, Chechnya).
  • Covering August war 2008 from Georgian city Gori.
  • Covering post -war separatist regions: South Osetia and Abkhazia.
  • Organizing guests/participants from Moscow political society for GPB analytical programs.
2007 IIHF WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
Mass-media communications officer
Moscow. Russia
Obligations:
  • Writing press-releases
  • Distributing press-releases
  • Organizing live broadcasts and interviews for Sports channel news and NTV
2006 Program “From whole soul” TV ATV (Moscow, Russia) – Editor.
2006 Program “Vremechko” TV ATV (Moscow, Russia) – Correspondent.
2006 Program “Bloknot” TV Culture GTRK (Moscow, Russia) Correspondent.
2004-2005 “IMEDI morning” TV IMEDI (Tbilisi, Georgia) Co- anchor, Correspondent.
2003-2004 ”Duble-2” competition for young journalists, TV IMEDI (Tbilisi, Georgia)
FREELANCER
2002-2003 “Young journalist” university newspaper, (Tbilisi, Georgia)
2001-2002 “Step” youth newspaper, (Tbilisi, Georgia)
1998-1999 “Extra-NEWS” youth newspaper, (Tbilisi, Georgia)
Academic education :
  • 2009 - present TbilisiIliaStateUniversity
Department: Philosophy and Social sciences
Program of Political sciences
Degree: DoingPHD
  • 2005 - 2008 - MoscowStateUniversity, (Moscow, Russia)
Faculty: Journalism
Degree: Specialist in Television Journalism( equivalent of bachelors degree, plus one year of Masters degree)
Diploma in “Georgia–Russian Political Stereotypes”
  • 2002 - 2005 - TbilisiStateUniversity, faculty of international journalism
Faculty: Journalism
Degree: bachelor in International Journalism
  • 2001 - 2002 - School of Arts, faculty of journalism.(Tbilisi.Georgia)
  • 1991 - 2001 - I Experimental school (Tbilisi.Georgia)
Extra Curricular :
  • Course onCommunicative Skills. GeorgetownUniversitySchool of Continuing Studies. WashingtonDC. 2010
  • WinterAcademy - 2009 “NATO at 60 – from experience to initiative”: CzechRepublic, Prague, 2009
  • WinterAcademy - 2008 “An Enlarged NATO: Challenges and Prospects” Germany, Berlin, 2008
  • Certificate for taking part in project “Mass media and Georgian social situation”
  • Certificate in Professional anchoring speech
Languages:
Georgian – Native
  • English – Fluent
  • Russian – Fluent
  • German – Good
References:
Taclan Suerdem
Voice of America. WashingtonDC
Head of Near East and Central Asian division.

David Darchiashvili
Parliament of Georgia. Committee on European
Chairman of the Committee

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