Paul Rimple
@pjrimple.bsky.social
Meet Me Here Tbilisi - www.meetmeheretbilisi.com - food & wine travel and culinary tours. Freelance journalist, and The Natural Born Lovers.
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.
When Water Burns: The Fight for Georgia - BBC World Service Documentaries
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Georgia’s government next target for destruction is education. revdem.ceu.edu/2025/10/31/g...
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 ...
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I've been wanting to write this story for a while, but happy Alice Feiring penned it up. www.saveur.com/wine/georgia...
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.
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Pretty bad when the government has made pro-democracy think tanks obsolete.
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
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A letter from Georgia's political prisoner, journalist Mzia Amaglobeli.
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
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I was there and they were, too. It was not a coup.
Georgian Dream pushes alternate history to justify crackdown
The Rose Revolution is rebranded a coup.
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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.
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.
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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...
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.
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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. 1tv.ge/lang/en/news...
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...
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The Global War Party is everywhere and control everything but it will never control the Georgian Dream.
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
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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
Sign the Petition
To Justin Timberlake: Don’t Let Your Music Be Used to Whitewash Repression in Georgia
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Hans Gutbrod@hansgutbrod.bsky.social · last yr.#JustinTimberlake is coming to Tbilisi on a GD sponsored event to project normality & how cool they are. Young Georgians launched petition to get Timberlake to speak up against repression, not to cancel the event. Good cause! What will win out? $$$ or integrity? www.change.org/p/to-justin-...
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...
Givi Mikanadze to the journalist: You are laughable and pathetic. Irakli Kobakhidze didn’t lie; he said I am a doctoral student at the Free University of Amsterdam - My resume states "candidate," and ...
The Minister of Education, Science, and Youth, Givi Mikanadze, stated that he has not defended a doctoral degree at the Free University of Amsterdam.
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Jelger Groeneveld@jelgerg.bsky.social · last yr.Recently appointed Georgian education minister does not have the PhD degree from Amsterdam based university that he claims to have. Georgian Dream leadership takes great pride in having doctoral lawyers among them with dissertations at European universities. oc-media.org/exclusive-ge...
Russia continues to target civilian infrastructure. #RussiaIsATerroristState
The Kyiv Independent@kyivindependent.com · last yr.⚡️Russia drops 500-kg bomb on shopping center in Donetsk Oblast — killing 2, injuring 27. Russian forces dropped a 500-kg (1,100-pound) aerial bomb on a shopping center in Donetsk Oblast, killing at least two people & injuring 27 others, regional officials reported July 16.
The hard part about doing propaganda is that the past changes so quickly you have no idea what will happen yesterday
He must have lived in a ground floor apartment or one story house.
The Kyiv Independent@kyivindependent.com · last yr.⚡️ Russian transport minister fired by Putin reportedly shoots himself dead. Russia's former Transport Minister Roman Starovoit shot himself dead in Odintsovo following his dismissal by President Vladimir Putin on July 7, the pro-government newspaper Izvestia reported, citing unnamed sources.
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.
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...
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One of the best joints to get a burger in Tbilisi, and the only place to here real live lowdown blues every Wednesday night! #Tbilisi #tbilisirestaurant #tbilisipub #tbilisibar #tbilsiblues #hamburgerlover #hamburger #foodie #blueslover
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...
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Russia systematically tortures Ukrainian POWs.
They burned “Glory to Russia” into my body. Ukrainian POW’s Story of Survival and Torture
YouTube video by UNITED24
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