🇬🇪In 2025 Tbilisi court fined a woman 2,500 GEL (800 EUR) for a rude Facebook comment about Interior Ministry lawyer Tamta Kimbarishvili. A year later Georgian Dream put Kimbarishvili in charge of a new ministry unit that hunts Facebook comments. 1/9

🇬🇪The U.S. and the EU Must Wake Up to Threats in Georgia at www.justsecurity.org/149941/u-s-e...

The U.S. and the EU Must Wake Up to Threats in Georgia

Georgian Dream is crushing civil society, courts, and opposition to entrench one-party rule and Russian influence; only fast U.S.-EU sanctions can stop it.

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🇬🇪In 2025 Tbilisi court fined a woman 2,500 GEL (800 EUR) for a rude Facebook comment about Interior Ministry lawyer Tamta Kimbarishvili. A year later Georgian Dream put Kimbarishvili in charge of a new ministry unit that hunts Facebook comments. 1/9

🇲🇩Yesterday I walked around Tiraspol, Moldova's second largest city, which Chișinău does not control. In the bookshop, portraits of Putin and Stalin hang side by side for sale. Price: 18 rubles 50. In a currency no country recognizes. A field report from Transnistria.🧵 1/12

🇲🇩Yesterday I walked around Tiraspol, Moldova's second largest city, which Chișinău does not control. In the bookshop, portraits of Putin and Stalin hang side by side for sale. Price: 18 rubles 50. In a currency no country recognizes. A field report from Transnistria.🧵 1/12

🇲🇩Spent today in Comrat, capital of Gagauzia, Moldova's autonomous south. In the regional history museum, Governor Evghenia Guțul's official portrait still hangs as Bașkan. She has been in prison since March 2025. Here is a field report from Europe's strangest autonomy. 1/14

🇲🇩Spent today in Comrat, capital of Gagauzia, Moldova's autonomous south. In the regional history museum, Governor Evghenia Guțul's official portrait still hangs as Bașkan. She has been in prison since March 2025. Here is a field report from Europe's strangest autonomy. 1/14

🇬🇪Georgia's ruling party, Georgian Dream (GD), is staging a show trial to imprison the leaders of every major opposition party at once. It is called the "sabotage case". Sentences run up to 15 years. The outcome is predetermined. ‼️We must act before the verdicts land. 1/17

🇬🇪Georgia's ruling party, Georgian Dream (GD), is staging a show trial to imprison the leaders of every major opposition party at once. It is called the "sabotage case". Sentences run up to 15 years. The outcome is predetermined. ‼️We must act before the verdicts land. 1/17

🇬🇪RECOMMENDED. Civic Council of Georgia has launched a new accountability tool and information bank on Georgia. It documents the individuals behind Georgian Dream's repression, entry by entry, from public sources. It is a new project. It needs eyes and follows. Please help. 1/4

🇲🇩Moldova's government collapsed on July 3. Eight days later, President Sandu nominated Vasile Tofan as Prime Minister. An investor who built his career backing Ukrainian and Moldovan companies now has 15 days to win parliament's confidence. #Moldova 1/8

🇬🇪Human Rights Watch just published its Georgia report. It is devastating for the illegitimate Georgian Dream anti-EU government. Georgian Dream is dismantling independent civil society through law, prosecution and financial strangulation. hrw.org/news/2026/07... 1/8

Georgia: New Laws Devastate Independent Civic Groups

Georgian authorities’ use of increasingly repressive laws and politically motivated criminal investigations is decimating independent civil society and silencing critical voices, Human Rights Watch sa...

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🇬🇪Human Rights Watch just published its Georgia report. It is devastating for the illegitimate Georgian Dream anti-EU government. Georgian Dream is dismantling independent civil society through law, prosecution and financial strangulation. hrw.org/news/2026/07... 1/8

Georgia: New Laws Devastate Independent Civic Groups

Georgian authorities’ use of increasingly repressive laws and politically motivated criminal investigations is decimating independent civil society and silencing critical voices, Human Rights Watch sa...

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🇬🇪Parliamentarians from 57 OSCE states have adopted a resolution on Georgia in The Hague. It calls on governments to withhold recognition of any Georgian election result not certified as free and fair by credible observers. Non-recognition is now formal OSCE PA @euosce.bsky.socialpolicy 1/7

🇬🇪🇪🇺Marika is one of the sharpest analysts working on Georgia and the wider region. She has done the reporting from the streets of Tbilisi and the research to back it up. If your institution covers EU enlargement or hybrid threats, contact her. She will raise your output.

Marika Mikiashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺@marikamikiashvili.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Hello everyone: friends, followers, readers! I am preparing for a very productive 2026-2027 where my quite unique experience of being a blend of a diplomat, academic researcher, lecturer, tear-gas-dodger, one-person media platform and OSINT-gatherer 1/ 📷 Goran Srdanov / Radar

🇲🇩On June 15, the EU formally opened accession negotiations with Moldova. Exactly one month earlier, Putin signed a decree fast-tracking Russian citizenship for residents of Transnistria. Europe's fastest-moving EU candidate is also Russia's most active hybrid target. 1/10

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.

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🇲🇩On June 15, the EU formally opened accession negotiations with Moldova. Exactly one month earlier, Putin signed a decree fast-tracking Russian citizenship for residents of Transnistria. Europe's fastest-moving EU candidate is also Russia's most active hybrid target. 1/10

🇬🇪 ATTENTION. Self-proclaimed PM Irakli Kobakhidze called former MP Giorgi Kandelaki "a formula of treason" and signaled state prosecution. His offense? Co-authoring a Hudson Institute report on Iran's grip on Georgia. In Georgian Dream's Georgia, this is not rhetoric. 1/10

🇬🇪 ATTENTION. Self-proclaimed PM Irakli Kobakhidze called former MP Giorgi Kandelaki "a formula of treason" and signaled state prosecution. His offense? Co-authoring a Hudson Institute report on Iran's grip on Georgia. In Georgian Dream's Georgia, this is not rhetoric. 1/10

🇬🇪🇬🇧 UK just sanctioned 18 entities in Russia's sanctions evasion machinery. 3 are Georgian companies! More than any other country outside Russia. Alongside Russian oligarchs and the Kyrgyz infrastructure behind the A7 network. Georgia remains a haven for sanctions evasion. 1/12

🇬🇪🇬🇧 UK just sanctioned 18 entities in Russia's sanctions evasion machinery. 3 are Georgian companies! More than any other country outside Russia. Alongside Russian oligarchs and the Kyrgyz infrastructure behind the A7 network. Georgia remains a haven for sanctions evasion. 1/12

Georgian Dream effectively admits the fake job creation was part of election mobilization: the program for social vulnerables to provide them with fake jobs for social assistance has been abolished as it "served its purpose" (and is too expensive to keep up). batumelebi.netgazeti.ge/articles-in-...

Scheme Long Linked by Batumelebi to Pre-Election Mobilisation Now Admitted as “Fictitious Employment” by Kobakhidze - Batumelebi

Elections 2024 • Georgian Dream • Irakli Kobakhidze • Social Issues •

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🇬🇪Georgian Dream is not EU-skeptic. GD runs a calculated campaign to ensure Georgia never qualifies, never progresses, and never joins the EU. The anti-EU rhetoric is now the strategy itself. The last three weeks make that very visible. 👇 1/13 📷 Civil

🇬🇪Open letter, meet open record. PM Kobakhidze writes to von der Leyen, Costa and Metsola to lecture the EU on police violence in Copenhagen. Peaceful protesters beaten with batons, set on by dogs he claims. Then read what his own police do, and never answer for. 1/13 👇🧵

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🇬🇪🇺🇦Georgian Dream wants one gift from the West: recognition. GD does not want the gift Kyiv just offered: friendship. The Yerevan handshake between Zelensky and Georgian PM Kobakhidze was not normalization. It was a strategic trap. Here's why GD secretly hates this opening. 1/15

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🇬🇪🇺🇸The Trump family recently signed Georgia's tallest building. Their local partner is a former Georgian Dream MP whom US lawmakers flagged as a regime financier. The deal lands while Bidzina Ivanishvili, GD's founder, sits under active US sanctions. thedailybeast.com/trumps-sign-... 1/6

Trumps Sign Mega Tower Deal With Firm Tied to Sanctioned Pro-Putin Billionaire

The Trump Organization is moving into the Kremlin’s backyard.

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