Ekaterina Shengeliya
@ekesa.bsky.social
Designed in 🇺🇦🇬🇪, manufactured in RU / GW'23 / KCL ‘25 / daughter of a 'foreign agent' / RT & follow ≠ endorsement
After a brief illness-induced pause, @ekesa.bsky.social and I are back with stories from 🇹🇷, 🇪🇪, 🇬🇪 and 🇦🇿, joined by @Turkova , talking about her experiences of tightening media freedom in Russia and the US. Youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWnP... Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/4o6l...
All Out on the Eastern Front #7: Protests in Istanbul; Estonia tightens voting law; fighting for VoA
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My friend Katya, who is half-Georgian half-Ukrainian, has started a podcast that will focus on the news, politics, and events in countries we sometimes call "Eastern Europe" www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5WW...
All Out on the Eastern Front #2: Protests in Slovakia; Georgia; Moldovan energy deal; Poland vs. ECJ
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Georgian authorities are doubling down on media and civil society groups, putting forward a range of new restrictions apparently inspired by US President Donald Trump’s foreign aid freeze.
Georgia ramps up restrictions on media, NGOs with drastic new laws
The fresh restrictions come amid a political crisis over disputed elections and the government’s reversal on its EU membership bid.
politico.eu
The Russian war and propaganda machine has fully turned its sights on Georgia since the news from the Ukrainian frontline are mixed at best. Now the nazis are in Georgia (ignore the fact that the most far right groups in Georgia tend to sympathize with Kremlin). Translation in the next post:
