Dr. hab. hist. Nikolai (Niko) Javakhishvili is professor of the Faculty of Humanities of Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University (Georgia), chief scientist-researcher of the Modern and Contemporary History Department of Ivane Javakhishvili Institute of History and Ethnology and Foreign Member of the Latvian Academy of Sciences (2022). His research interests: modern and contemporary history of Georgia and Caucasus, Georgian–European relations, etc.