Me on BBC From Our Own Correspondent discussing the first humans out of Africa, and how even the Lower Paleolithic isn't safe from the Georgian government. lnkd.in/eh__SS7S

Me on BBC From Our Own Correspondent discussing the first humans out of Africa, and how even the Lower Paleolithic isn't safe from the Georgian government. lnkd.in/eh__SS7S

What went wrong in Georgia and what can be done? Me and my colleagues from @RANDEurope discuss in this paper www.rand.org/pubs/perspec...

Countering Russia-style autocracy in Georgia

The Georgia Dream party is embracing illiberalism, despite the pro-European aspirations of most Georgians. In this perspective, RAND Europe researchers trace this shift and offer options for increased...

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Read my paean to the architecture of Yerevan in the new issue of Apollo apollo-magazine.com/yerevan-arme...

The magisterial modernism of Yerevan

A century ago, the architect Alexander Tamanyan devised a startling layout for the city and his vision has endured against the odds, writes William Dunbar

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Armenia coverage in today’s @private eyenews.bsky.social

More Georgia coverage in today’s @privateeyenews.bsky.social

Fascinating study of Georgian Dream voter motivation. If opposition wants to win it must have sensible answer about a) maintaining peace w Russia and b) get serious about unity. All plainly apparent before last election but good to see it spelled out tabula.ge/ge/news/7327...

ქართული ოცნების მომხრეებში მაღალია კრიზისის შეგრძნება - კვლევა

2025 წლის იანვარ-თებერვალში ქცევის ანალიზის, სტრატეგიისა და კომუნიკაციების გუნდმა (BISC Partners) ქართული ოცნების მხარდამჭერთა გადაწყვეტილების მიღების მამოძრავებელი ფაქტორების კვლევა ჩაატარა.  დოკუმე...

tabula.ge

In tribute to March 8 here is my story about the worlds first democratically elected Muslim woman eurasianet.org/the-worlds-f...

The world's first democratically elected Muslim woman was from Georgia

Armed with a Mauser and smoking a pipe, Peri-Khan is almost unimaginable in the firmly patriarchal Azeri society of today.

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Some Georgia coverage in Private Eye—who on earth do they get to write this stuff ;)

When Bidzina tore up decades of foreign policy work and turned Georgia towards Russia I was shocked more diplomats—people whose life’s work was ruined—didn’t resign. Now Trump has done the same thing and the State Department is falling into line just like in Georgia

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Finally my work is published in the Glenkens Gazette, the worlds best local paper

Happy news for the Patarkatsishvili family as they get their money back on their Ladbroke Grove palace. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Couple can hand back moth-infested £32.5m mansion

The pair - who bought the London property in 2019 - found moths on toothbrushes and in their clothes.

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Fascinating account of a high society murder trial that shocked Tiflis in the 1870s diletant.media/articles/452...

Несчастный случай или убийство? Дело Нины Андреевской

В июле 1876 года в Тифлисе пропала Нина Андреевская. Ее тело нашли в реке, и чтобы разобраться, убийство это или нет, привлекли лучшего юриста того времени.

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This cause is close to my heart - please sign: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...

Save The Prince Charles Cinema

The future of the iconic Prince Charles Cinema in London’s West End is under serious threat! We are beyond disappointed that our landlords, Zedwell LSQ Ltd and their ultimate parent company Criterion...

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Some very happy memories as a teenager here dressed in a basque and feather boa-- please sign: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...

Save The Prince Charles Cinema

The future of the iconic Prince Charles Cinema in London’s West End is under serious threat! We are beyond disappointed that our landlords, Zedwell LSQ Ltd and their ultimate parent company Criterion...

you.38degrees.org.uk

Thai women kept as slaves and farmed for their eggs by Chinese gangsters. This is the dystopia of Bidzina’s Georgia—and it’s only getting worse www.nationthailand.com/news/general...

Urgent help sought for 100 Thai women forced into human egg farm in Georgia

The Pavena Foundation has urged the Thai government to seek China’s help in cracking down on a Chinese gang that has lured and forced around 100 Thai women into an illegal human egg farm in Georgia.

nationthailand.com

Here you see the white bus into which some of the arrested were taken -- they're trying to keep the door mostly closed but if you look closely you can see the policeman punching. Wanton GD brutality. #Tbilisi #Georgia

Marianne died. The mother of my older brother, I knew her in the capacity of a glamorous aunt (or a dowager empress). An extraordinary woman who made music that will last forever. I always hoped there would be one last album, but it was not to be www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0Nx...

Marianne Faithfull -- The Ballad Of Lucy Jordan HD

YouTube video by walter “Club Dj 80s” mogentale

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Read this banger by my friend @willcathcart.bsky.social thehill.com/opinion/5113...

A teenager fell through an open manhole and died. This is the second young person to dies in such a way in less than a year in Tbilisi. This is what an unaccountable government run by a feudal lord gets you tvpirveli.ge/ka/siaxleebi...

Kazakhstan is sentencing police officers to prison for brutalising protesters during unrest 2 years ago. Georgian cops be warned: the government will will betray you and send some of you to prison the moment they deem in necessary—just like in Kz kaztag.kz/ru/news/prig...

Приговор полицейским за пытки джазмена и других лиц в ходе Қаңтара – подробности

Конаев. 17 января. КазТАГ – Редакция выяснила подробности по делу о пытках кыргызского джазмена Викрама Рузахунова и других лиц в ходе январских событий, за что в пятницу в Карасайском район...

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“You can’t not invite us we weren’t gonna come anyway”

Least of his crimes and all that, but how predictable of Zarkua to be a Coldplay fan oc-media.org/georgian-dre...

Georgian Dream deputies attack Georgian citizen in Abu Dhabi hotel, sparking violent chaos

The incident was caught on film and widely shared on social media.

oc-media.org

I would like to make it clear that while I support moving Christmas to Dec 25th, that comes with the important proviso that January 7th remain a public holiday as "Old Christmas", just like we have Old New Year on Jan 14. This is fitting and what the baby Jesus would have wanted

Rene Magritte looks like a mix of David Lynch and Leonid Brezhnev

Could they be doing this to each other???

Guys I don't normally ask but this New Year I'm doing a fundraiser for a disadvantaged family of patriotic Georgians from a remote village in Imereti. 1/n

Bitter irony that the men driving Georgia towards becoming an authoritarian, theocratic nightmare are themselves liberals. Prime example: minigarch Irakli Rukhadze, owner of H̵u̵t̵u̵ ̵P̵o̵w̵e̵r̵ ̵R̵a̵d̵i̵o̵ TV Imedi, a Goebbelsian figure at the heart of the regime. 1/n

Britain sanctions five Georgian security figures for their roles in brutal treatment of protesters. Step in right direction but more needed www.gov.uk/government/n...

UK sanctions Georgian officials responsible for brutal crackdown on media and protestors

The UK has designated five Georgian officials for serious human rights violations.

gov.uk