This is Paata Burchuladze, 71, a globally acclaimed opera star singing I am Georgia - მე ვარ საქართველო🤍 last year. Now he is sentenced to seven years in prison after taking part in anti-government protests in Georgia. 💔 Today’s march is dedicated to him and other political prisoners!

Yet another confirmation that “building ties” with the Georgian Dream is futile. They bet their entire existence on Russian victory.

Only one outcome is acceptable: elections organised and monitored internationally, outside Georgian Dream's control. Anything GD organises itself is not an election. It is a formality designed to legitimate theft. 11/11

🇬🇪🇭🇺Hungary under Orbán shows that a heavily rigged electoral system can still be contested. Georgian opposition is right to study it. But the comparison only holds if you understand precisely how different the Georgian reality is. 1/11

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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

Little Ingorovka Tiger #Tbilisi #Georgia #cats

Georgian Dream lays blame with the EU for Georgia not participating in the Ukraine Tribunal. Typical deflection by GD. It's always someone else who is at fault for an independent decision by the GD gvmnt. It just doesn't want to provide full transparency on the "why". civil.ge/archives/734...

While liberal societies maintain an open space for celebrating IDAHOT day on 17 May, Georgian Dream holds the "Family Purity Day" on the instigation of the church, as a direct assault on the "sinners". To have them reminded there's no space for them in Georgia. www.interpressnews.ge/en/article/1...

Free Paata Burchuladze! Free political prisoners! 🇬🇪🇪🇺 Saturday march has just kicked off

Saturday protest in Tbilisi! Freedom for the regime's prisoners! #GeorgiaProtests #TerrorinGeorgia

Protest march in Georgia. #GeorgiaProtests Day 535

“Freedom to the regime prisoners!” Day 535 of #GeorgiaProtests Saturday march. 📷 Merab Metreveli

535! #TbilisiProtests #GeorgiaProtests

“Until the end!” Day 535 of #GeorgiaProtests 📷 Droa

Talk Georgia's News Update is out now on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. Catch up on what’s been happening in Georgia this week. open.spotify.com/episode/35x7...

17 May | 22:00 | GMT+4 | TGQT: What’s happening in UA–Georgia relations? Imedi TV barred fromEP - are EU sanctions coming? Giorgi Rukhadze & Nodar Kharshiladze answer. Watch the trailer here: Spotify: h1.nu/1v5eb Apple: h1.nu/1v5ei youtu.be/B4BvHm2fLSg

Today is the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia & Transphobia. Nobody should be judged just for who they are!

Tens of thousands have gathered in Tbilisi to celebrate Family Purity Day. The holiday was introduced by the Georgian Orthodox Church a year after thousands of people led by priests attacked several dozen queer rights demonstrators.

Tonight at 22:00 | GMT+4 on TGQT: What’s happening in Ukraine–Georgia relations? Imedi TV barred from the EP - are EU sanctions coming? Giorgi Rukhadze and Nodar Kharshiladze answer. Spotify: h1.nu/1v75P Apple: h1.nu/1v5ei youtu.be/epQmQEZFDig

Tens of thousands have gathered in Tbilisi to celebrate Family Purity Day. The holiday was introduced by the Georgian Orhodox Church in 2014, to contrast with the global International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia. 📸 Mariam Nikuradze / OC Media

If you ask an average Georgian Dream voter and churchgoer combo, they'll very likely say that the opposition is "detached from the reality of average people." 1/

Attaching relevant videos in two parts below

Recently, the Uman Art Museum opened an art exhibition "Outpost of the Future in a Symphony of Color." Its author is Mamuka Mamulashvili, a military man, commander of the Georgian National Legion, a man who has been defending Ukraine since 2014.

From the FB page of Uman City Council in Ukraine comes this post: << Uman City Council 17h · 🇬🇪🤝🇺🇦An event took place in Uman that combined art, memory, and a symbol of faith in the future.

In the heart of Uman a symbolic memorial sign was erected in honor of the fighters of the #GeorgianLegion who have been defending Ukraine in the hottest directions of the front since 2014.

Trust the Ukrainians 👇 This is from national TV🫂🫡

👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 jam-news.net/opinion-agre...

Large crowds joined as the Georgian Orthodox Church celebrated Family Purity Day, introduced in 2014, a year after May 17, 2013, violence against a small rally marking International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, and Transphobia in Tbilisi.

Today marks day #500 of non-stop pro-Euro #protests in #Tbilisi and whole #Georgia GD regime tried to bury us, they didn't know we were seeds #GeorgiaProtests #TerrorinGeorgia

Day 5️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ #GeorgiaProtests The demands are the same: 1️⃣ New, free and fair elections! 2️⃣ Free political prisoners! 🇬🇪🇪🇺 Georgia is Europe!

@netgazeti.org Today marks 500 days since the #GeorgiaProtests began on November 28, 2024 — the day the Georgian Dream, announced it was halting Georgia’s bid for EU membership. What followed has been a prolonged and escalating crisis.

500 days of protest in Georgia, Tbilisi. We oppose ruzzian occupation of Georgia. We are a small nation, don't forget us please #GeorgiaProtests #TerrorinGeorgia

Since Nov 28, 2024, citizens have taken to the streets every single day to oppose GD’s decision to halt the country’s EU accession talks. In response, authorities have used violence against protesters and passed dozens of repressive laws in an attempt to silence them, but #GeorgiaProtests Day 500

500 days of non-stop #GeorgiaProtests from my archive🇬🇪✊️❤️

Day 500! 🇬🇪🇪🇺 #TbilisiProtests #GeorgiaProtests

We won’t let them stabilize. We shall win this marathon! Only free and fair parliamentary elections can resolve the ever-deepening crisis. Day 500 (!) of #GeorgiaProtests 📷 @rusudandjakeli.bsky.social

Talk Georgia's news update is out on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. Listen to what's been going on in Georgia this week. open.spotify.com/episode/4OwL...

Happy Easter! 🤍 Today we celebrate Easter in Georgia🤍 poster @euingeorgia.bsky.social

Love seeing your support!❤️ The Tiger Lillies🫂🫶🏻 Artist: George Gagoshidze

🚨‼️First ever journalist prisoner in Georgia 🇬🇪Mzia Amaglobeli, the prominent journalist, founder of free media @netgazeti.org and media manager is unfairly imprisoned nearly for 15 months now!

Animal rights defenders have raised alarms over “disappearing” street dogs across Georgia as authorities conduct “veterinary manipulations” to manage the overpopulation of homeless animals.

🟥 Journalist Mariam Kuprava had been accused of “artificially blocking the road” while covering a weekly protest and faced up to 15 days of administrative detention, even though video evidence presented by the MIA showed she was identifiable as a journalist. batumelebi.netgazeti.ge/articles-in-...

მოგესალმებით მეგობრებო. ვინც უყურებთ Talk Georgia-ს გთხოვთ არ დაიზაროთ და გამოიწერეთ ჩვენი პოდკასტი ფეისბუკსა და იუთუბზე. youtube.com/@talkgeorgia

🟥The @echr.coe.int has registered Mzia Amaglobeli’s 3rd application [over degrading treatment in police custody] within one week of submission. The application is challenging violations of several rights under the European Convention on Human Rights, including Articles 3, 8, 13, and 14. #FreeMzia

“That is the biggest warning Hungary carries for Europe: When democratic institutions decay for long enough, elections cease to be contests between programs and become desperate referendums on whether political change is possible at all.” carnegieendowment.org/europe/strat...