🚨🇬🇪 This is my friend - Beka Korshia, one of Georgia’s brightest minds, an exceptionally talented television host, who has exposed government’s corruption schemes for years. He was reportedly arrested in Tbilisi tonight. His whereabouts and condition unknown. @CPJ_Eurasia

Georgia. "What is plainly alive and flourishing is a sense not simply of outrage, but of hope" excellent take here👇

When Georgia’s prime minister denies his own statement suspending EU accession negotiations, and follows a Russian intelligence report script that foreign agents are organising the riots, one is reminded of Pomerantsev’s Nothing is True and Everything is Possible.

Protesters confronted riot police in Georgia and rallied across the country for a fourth straight night last night following the Russia-leaning government’s announcement that it was suspending talks on EU membership. ✍️ @robinfwalker Read more:

In which the editor coined ‘Bidniz’ to describe Georgian oligarch Bidzina Ivanishvili’s financial motives for control of his country. As in Bidniz, not pleasure.

Sorry this was HarrisonX pollsters I think

Exit pollster by reputable Edison says Georgians voted for change with young female voters leading the rejection of governing GD party. Central election prelims to come.

This is another troubling development for freedom of the press in Georgia. Stephan is a Swiss national, and worked with me earlier this year to document the mass protests against the govt's law on foreign agents.

To understand what's at stake in 🇬🇪 Georgia's pivotal election watch my documentary "Georgians: Between European Dream & Russia". It reflects a new generation's fight for freedom while others remain gripped by state and Kremlin propaganda

Timely piece that doesn’t make for easy reading about the way the wind is blowing in Georgia. And about how the West has wasted money trying to help its government.

Strange that Georgia's prime minister would choose to follow trolls.

5/5 Read my long read over your coffee this weekend here: https://t.co/wwIzfvwKVJ

4/5 But a few good men and women are doing everything they can to expose those crimes so that finally, maybe, we can begin to learn the lessons of history.

3/5 The lack of investigation mirrors the lack of enthusiasm among the Georgian elite for unpacking Georgia's Soviet trauma. Best to leave it all in the past.

2/5 So I made a film about it. You can watch the 7 minute tear jerker here: https://t.co/e6kEf1dHPC

1/5 When I heard that the first victims from Stalin's Great Terror had been discovered in Georgia only in 2019 I was staggered. 15,000 people shot in the back of the head and dumped in mass graves all over the country 1937-8 , and until now not one had been found.

The mass murdering dictator Stalin has been rehabilitated in Russia. Now he's being venerated inside Georgia's Orthodox Church. Go figure...

6/6. Or at least, a statement. To date, no response.

5/6 We hoped we might be able to go on patrol in the waters to learn how the government is taking steps to protect shipping and tourists from the risk of unexploded ordinance.

4/6 Meanwhile, we wait for acknowledgement from the Interior Ministry, which controls the Coast Guard, our request to find out what measures are being taken to monitor for mines in the Black Sea.