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When Water Burns: The Fight for Georgia - BBC World Service Documentaries YouTube video by BBC World Service

Want to know what's going on in Georgia? Great piece about the fight for democracy and how far the government will go to prevent it, including poisoning its people.

Georgia’s Higher Education ‘Reform’: The Capstone of an Authoritarian Turn | Review of Democracy Georgia’s government has announced a sweeping reform of higher education that pulls more decisions under central control, trims academic diversity, and limits international engagement. This is not an ...

Georgia’s government next target for destruction is education. revdem.ceu.edu/2025/10/31/g...

The Female Picaresque: Jan Kerouac’s Baby Driver by Amanda Fortini October 24, 2025 – “Jan Kerouac’s darker and more extreme brand of mischief make her father’s On the Road high jinks seem tame and even a tad dilettantish by comparison.”

How is it I only heard of this now?

How Women Are Breathing New Life Into Georgia’s 8,000-Year Wine Tradition Tethered to its ancestral past, Georgian wine is now a global force with a forward-thinking vision led by women winemakers.

I've been wanting to write this story for a while, but happy Alice Feiring penned it up. www.saveur.com/wine/georgia...

GIP, Georgia’s Key Think Tank, Halts Work Citing Repression, Loss of Mission - Civil Georgia The Georgian Institute of Politics (GIP), a leading Tbilisi-based think tank established in 2011, an

Pretty bad when the government has made pro-democracy think tanks obsolete.

From my prison cell in Georgia, I implore Europe not to abandon us to Russia | Mzia Amaglobeli My fellow journalists are putting their lives in danger every day, but we refuse to surrender to a regime that threatens Europe’s own security, says imprisoned Georgian journalist Mzia Amaglobeli

A letter from Georgia's political prisoner, journalist Mzia Amaglobeli.

Georgian Dream pushes alternate history to justify crackdown The Rose Revolution is rebranded a coup.

I was there and they were, too. It was not a coup.

What I Learned From the Georgia Protests A novelist traveled to the former Soviet republic in search of food and a story. She found a new understanding of how to stand up for democracy.

Aba ra!

Is Putin's LGBT Crackdown Reaching Other Countries? | SBS Dateline YouTube video by SBS Dateline

Cool piece.
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Tbilisi sentiment. #russiaisaterroriststae

Actor Dean Cain, who played Superman in the '90s, reveals he joined ICE Dean Cain, who starred in "Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman," made a recruitment video for the agency Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

The kryptonite went to his head. Supershmuck. "So, if you want to help save America, ICE is arresting the worst of the worst and removing them from America's streets. I like that. I voted for that," Cain said.

Irakli Kobakhidze: I would like to greet Mr. Bidzina Ivanishvili, who in 2012 liberated Georgia from the most severe authoritarianism managed from outside and put our country on the right path of deve... According to Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze, Bidzina Ivanishvili liberated Georgia from the most severe authoritarianism managed from outside in 2012.

Georgian Dream presented incumbent Tbilisi mayor Kaladze to be their candidate for 3rd time.

Meanwhile, party chair Kobakhidze took the opportunity for some irony, by complimenting Ivanishvili for “freeing Georgia in 2012 from the most severe authoritarianism”
www.interpressnews.ge/en/article/1...

Discovery at Orozmani archaeological site: 1.8-million-year-old human lower jaw unearthed in Georgia - 1TV A 1.8-million-year-old human lower jaw has been discovered during international archaeological excavations at Orozmani. The Georgian National Agency for Cultural Heritage Protection announced on Thurs...

A lower jaw of an early “homo erectus” of ~1.8 million years old was excavated in Georgia.

The jaw was discovered at the archeological site of the village Kvemo Orozmani in Dmanisi municipality, in which area more early humanoid remains of the same era were discovered.
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Kobakhidze Says ‘Global War Party’ Uses EU Visa Threat to Open Second Front in Georgia - Civil Georgia Georgian Dream Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze has claimed that visa-free travel with the European

The Global War Party is everywhere and control everything but it will never control the Georgian Dream.

Friends, fellas, please sign the petition calling for #JustinTimberlake to express his position against repressions in Georgia.

Otherwise, even his concert will be used by the regime to pretend normalcy, legitimacy, and business as usual with the world.

www.change.org/p/to-justin-...

#NAFO

Pavel Talankin is a former Russian school event coordinator and videographer at School No. 1 in Karabash, a town in Russia's Chelyabinsk region. He filmed "patriotic" lessons and school events for official reports submitted to the Russian ministry of education

Egils Helmanis, chairman of the municipal council of Ogre, Latvia, was wounded in a Russian shelling during a visit to Ukraine. He was delivering humanitarian aid to Ukraine.

Freshly appointed Georgian education minister was caught lying about having a Dutch university PhD degree.

Now he is rebuking with a typical reflex of full denial of the lie, and deflects it back to the messenger. So typical.
www.interpressnews.ge/en/article/1...

Russia continues to target civilian infrastructure. #RussiaIsATerroristState

The hard part about doing propaganda is that the past changes so quickly you have no idea what will happen yesterday

As democracy in Georgia collapses, Russia, China and Iran see an opening | CNN A decade ago, Georgia was the poster child of post-Soviet countries on their way to democracy and freedom. US lawmakers hope a bill will help combat democratic backsliding.

Very well summed up.

Ted Cruz: ‘Vacationing Is How I Grieve’

Ted Cruz: ‘Vacationing Is How I Grieve’

So, the cops can knock on your door and force you to take a drug test?

He must have lived in a ground floor apartment or one story house.

Tongue-tied in Tbilisi. Russian imperialism is casting a long linguistic shadow over the Georgian capital — Novaya Gazeta Europe “It’s better to speak Mandarin than Russian in Tbilisi,” says Nikoloz, our guide on a Soviet-themed tour of Tbilisi, as one member of our group, a native Mandarin speaker, attempts to place an order a...

This is accurate, although I'd add that Gavlirov night, when Georgian Dream MPs invited a Russian MP in 2019 to address an assembly from the Speaker's Chair and sparked mass protests, was the catalyst for the growing animosity.

Oasis In Cacophonialand: Maclaren's Irish Pub Burgers, Blues and MoreTwenty-five years ago, a pair of Tbilisi friends made it a point to drag me, a former Chicago blues musician, to every live music venue in the city, which wasn’t hard as they we...

One of the best joints to get a burger in Tbilisi, and the only place to here real live lowdown blues every Wednesday night!

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