🇬🇪🇳🇷 Nauru has recognised Georgia's territorial integrity and withdrawn its recognition of #Abkhazia and #Tskhinvali region, terminating diplomatic relations with both.
George Melashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦
@mel.ge
🦊 Europe-Georgia Institute, President. Patriot of 🇬🇪. Believer in Georgia's 🇪🇺 Future & Transatlantic Alliance.
Peter Fischer was the rare kind of diplomat: one who defended a friendship rather than merely managed a relationship. My latest for @ocmedia.bsky.social is a farewell to the outgoing German Ambassador & Germany's quiet, steadfast support for Georgia's European path. 🇩🇪🇬🇪 oc-media.org/opinion-sayi...
Opinion | Saying farewell to Georgia’s steadfast supporter, German Ambassador Peter Fischer
Germany’s friendship with Georgia began long before Fischer, and will outlive the Georgian Dream government now bent on rejecting it.
oc-media.org
I spoke with TVP World today about Meloni's Yerevan-Baku shuttle. On 4 May, the Italian PM attended the 8th European Political Community summit in Yerevan, then flew directly to Baku to meet President Aliyev. Same roses at both airports. The sequencing was deliberate.
Andrzej Poczobut is free. The Polish journalist and 2025 Sakharov laureate walks out of Lukashenko's prison today - a moment of profound relief, and a vindication of every voice that refused to let him be forgotten. [1/2]
Today, #VTSakartveloNews goes on air. A Georgian-language project from the international newsroom of Poland's public broadcaster @tvpworld.bsky.social - committed to daily reporting from Georgia and the world, and standing firmly against propaganda. [1/3]
Pleased to share that my essay "Georgia's democracy is being quietly strangled" is out in the latest issue of New Eastern Europe (No. 3/2026), as part of a feature package on whether human rights still matter. [1/6]
Somewhere deep in the Georgian mountains, the sky just closed. A no-fly zone, larger than greater Tbilisi, appeared almost without notice. The official story involves a telescope. The telescope hasn't been touched since the Khrushchev era. The real story involves something else entirely. 👽🧵 [1/10]
Yesterday Georgia celebrated National Language Day 🇬🇪 The Umm Leisun inscription - an Old Georgian limestone tombstone discovered in 2002 in Jerusalem - contains the earliest known use of the ethnonym ႵႠႰႧႥႤႪႨ [1/2]
This was filmed two days before Russian forces massacred peaceful protesters in Tbilisi. April 1989. The Soviet empire was still intact - and Georgians were already fighting to escape it, already demanding our place in the West. We have paid dearly for that conviction. We are still paying. Watch.
On this day in 2008, NATO made one of its greatest strategic mistakes at the Bucharest Summit. [1/5]
At the age of 93, in the 49th year of his enthronement upon the Patriarchal Throne, His Holiness and Beatitude Ilia II, Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia, Archbishop of Mtskheta-Tbilisi, and Metropolitan of Bichvinta and Tskhum-Abkhazia, has fallen asleep in the Lord.
An elite oligarch-backed university. A secretive research centre. A name that should have remained buried in history: Ahnenerbe. A very dark story where pseudoscience, power, and Nazi mythmaking collide in plain sight. 👇 Link in second tweet.
What you need to know about REAL freedom of the press in Georgia: since Georgian Dream banned filming in courts, #Publika & other medias have submitted around 20 formal requests to the High Council of Justice asking to record trials. Zero replies. 0. [1/2]
The UK sanctions Imedi TV and POSTV for Russian disinformation. Meanwhile in Georgia: critical media pushed to the brink of closure, journalists beaten, a female media leader jailed... [1/2]
If you miss Dan Brown—secret codes, mystical calendars, numerology dressed up as revelation—you don’t need a thriller. Georgia now has the real thing. It’s being taught under a university logo, funded by an oligarch. Curious? Buckle up! 🧵👇
Former NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg: “The big mistake was not to provide more support earlier to Ukraine.” The West’s gravest mistake was its (non-)reaction to Russia’s invasion of Georgia in 2008. That failure to act opened the gates of hell Russia would later unleash on the continent.
Pleased to be quoted in a @kyivpost.com analysis unpacking how #Georgia’s gov masks authoritarian drift behind carefully crafted rhetoric. Grateful to James Lewis for rigorous reporting & taking propaganda seriously - as policy, not noise. Clarity still matters. 🇬🇪🇪🇺 www.kyivpost.com/analysis/69983
Analysis: The Smoke-and-Mirrors Rhetoric Shielding Georgia’s Outcast Autocracy
Although one may justifiably call Georgia’s current government pro-Russia, the approach is consciously subtle. Rather than extol Moscow, they prefer to denigrate the EU.
kyivpost.com
So, the @bbcnewslive.bsky.social published its investigation. I was among the protesters sprayed by the water cannon laced with a WW1-era chemical that night. This is me afterwards. The symptoms didn’t go away: the burning, the coughing, the shortness of breath stayed with me and [1/2]
Georgia just became the first country in Europe where a WW1-era chemical weapon was used against peaceful protesters. According to a BBC investigation, water cannons were laced with camite - a toxic compound from 1930s with long-lasting, dangerous effects. [1/5] www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
WW1 toxic compound sprayed on Georgian protesters, BBC evidence suggests
Anti-government demonstrators are likely to have been targeted with camite, our investigation finds.
bbc.co.uk
As the grandson of a man who embodied courage, dignity, and unwavering duty, this Remembrance Day is both national and deeply personal for me – his values remain with me every single day. [1/7]
🧵“Sanctions Bubble”-How 🇬🇪 Became Russia’s Safe Haven for Sanctions Evasion 🇬🇪💰🇷🇺 The war in Ukraine reshaped global trade flows, but in Georgia, it created a bubble of profit around sanctions evasion, empowering oligarch and capturing the state. [1/12] fpc.org.uk/dealing-with...
Dealing with the Sanctions Bubble in Georgia - The Foreign Policy Centre
Summary Western sanctions against Russia, designed to isolate and weaken the Kremlin’s war economy, have instead generated a global “sanctions bubble”: an adaptive ecosystem of intermediaries, offshor...
fpc.org.uk
From Kyiv in 3 days to [...] - please fill the gap. And Ukrainians don't even have Tomahawks... yet - it is proven that best defence against them is tortoise formation.
#Putin is the only one responsible for Putin's war - and I am very 'happy' that #Merkel's mask is falling off. Misperception of #Russia, being a #Putinversteher, endangering security of the European continent and responsibility for all the mess we're in now - that's her legacy.
🇬🇪 In my recent interview with TVP WORLD, I discussed the mass protests in Georgia on October 4th - and what they reveal about the state of democracy and governance in the country. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BLf...
Mass protest in Georgia after local elections | George Melashvili
YouTube video by TALKING WITH TVP WORLD
youtube.com
🗳️ The lowest voter turnout in Georgia’s municipal election history. The regime wanted a referendum on its legitimacy? The people have spoken - with silence.
Georgian Nightmare propagandists brag, but lie: 1.) GD froze bank accounts of ISFED - Georgia's oldest & most respected election observer; 2.) GD DID NOT invite OSCE/ODIHR - and utilized Lukashenko's trick by 'inviting' them a couple weeks before the election, [1/2]
🇩🇪 Today we congratulate #Germany on Unity Day - a celebration of freedom, resilience, and democracy. The fall of the Berlin Wall showed the world that no division is eternal, and that freedom always finds its way. [1/9]
One of Georgia’s oldest non-partisan independent think tanks and research centers, the Georgian Institute of Politics, has succumbed to pressure and is forced to suspend its operations indefinitely. Yet another example of authoritarian and draconian Georgian Nightmare.
