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...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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...

“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...

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...

I hesitate to say it but I… I quite like Assad’s palace. Looks like a successful mid century university building

I hear Gharibashvili dislocated his shoulder jerking off

Judging by this readout, Macron called Bidzina in order to berate him for an hour—which actually sounds quite fun

An effigy of Bidzina Ivanishvili was burned at the protests tonight

The resistance is dogged x.com/jamnewscauca...

Pussy Riot founding member Maria Alyokhina has been barred from entering the Republic of Georgia. She shared a photo of her entry denial paperwork and a note denouncing the authorities for admitting Russian propagandists who report favorably on the police crackdown against anti-govt protesters.

One with the star on top

A thread on Georgian political figures that are MIA during the current processes. Let's start with the big one--the far right. 1/n

Salome met Trump and Musk (or is it a waxwork?) in one day. GD must be seething

Chemical warfare www.instagram.com/reel/DDPritN...

God I love Spotify Day—my favourite corporate holiday. And yes that is two covers of the same song

00:58 December 3 - #Tbilisi 🔴 A girl at the protest broke through the wall of riot police shields, shouting: 🗣️"You trash people, I'm tired! What do you want?! Are you afraid of me?!" #GeorgiaProtests

Elon’s now into plumbing supplies? Is there no end to his genius?

Galloway evenings

Georgian kumkuri, or drinking vessel. The only confirmed Georgian item at the Wallace Collection. Silver, partially gilt, embossed and chased. Bought by the 4th Marquess of Hartford from the Demidoff sale in 1871

You know shit got real when Salome starts writing her own tweets

Salome should pardon Misha

Released eleven years ago yesterday, I stand by almost everything in this piece www.independent.co.uk/voices/comme...

An incomplete thread of times Georgian opposition leaders visited the West when they should have been campaigning in Georgia. Please note that I am an opposition voter, and I believe that the election results did not reflect the will of the Georgian people. 1/n

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