🇬🇪 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-...

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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

🇬🇪🇺🇦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

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

🇬🇪🇭🇺Viktor Orbán lost Hungary's election yesterday. For most Europeans, this is a relief. For Georgian Dream, it is a strategic catastrophe. Their single most important protector in Europe is gone. Here's what that actually means. 1/6

🇬🇪Georgian Dream just got the Rubio call they've begged for since Jan. 2025. Highest-level US-Georgia contact in years. Kobakhidzes propaganda called it a "reset." Moscow and Tehran will not accept this. Here's why that matters more than the call itself. 1/19

🇬🇪This March, Georgian Dream completes its transition to a legal dictatorship. Not a coup. Not a crackdown. A methodical dismantling of every check on power, done in plain sight while the West watches and does "nothing". Georgia has not backslid. It has crossed a threshold. 1/19

🇬🇪The persistence of the Georgian public and the unified opposition is starting to pay off. Domestic non-recognition and international isolation are driving Georgian Dream crazy and weakening the regime.

🇬🇪The OSCE’s Moscow Mechanism report on Georgia is out. It is one of the most serious international assessments of the country’s democratic trajectory in years. Here are the key findings policymakers should understand ⬇️ 1/21

🇬🇪The OSCE’s Moscow Mechanism report on Georgia is out. It is one of the most serious international assessments of the country’s democratic trajectory in years. Here are the key findings policymakers should understand ⬇️ 1/21

🇬🇪🇮🇷 "Iranian officials describe Georgia as a favorable route for exporting Iranian goods to the European Union." thehill.com/opinion/inte...

🇮🇷I respect those who defend international law. The UN Charter does not permit war for regime change. That principle matters. But let’s not pretend this is a binary moral equation. 1/3 ‌

🇬🇪🇬🇧Breaking: The “Political Council” of Georgian Dream has decided that when the UK sanctions two propaganda outlets, the appropriate response is an unhinged attack on its pro-Western political opponents. 1/9

🇬🇪🇬🇧Breaking: The “Political Council” of Georgian Dream has decided that when the UK sanctions two propaganda outlets, the appropriate response is an unhinged attack on its pro-Western political opponents. 1/9

This morning, the UK sanctioned Georgia’s largest broadcaster, Imedi TV. No media organization has done more to amplify the regime’s anti-Western propaganda amid the war on Ukraine, or to rationalize Georgia’s descent into violent authoritarianism. 1/9

Georgian Dream MP Viktor Japaridze (right) who held 52% of POSTV shares, also narrowly escaped sanctions (for now) by registering the shares under someone else just days ago. A short while ago, Irakli Rukhadze (right) also sold his Imedi TV standings for GEL 1,000 / ~ EUR 320.

I do not think I am promising too much if I say that this story will blow your mind -- how esoteric numerology with bizarro claims about Aryan, Chaldeans and Mesopotamia gives you a surprisingly accurate insight of how to understand #Georgia today. open.substack.com/pub/ganatleb...

🇬🇪🇩🇪A long read - but worth your time. In his interview, German Ambassador to Georgia, Peter Fischer, is refreshingly direct about Georgia’s crisis and Germany’s position. 1/4 www.interpressnews.ge/en/article/1...

BRIEF SUMMARY ON THE NEW STAGE OF ASSAULT IN 🇬🇪👇🏻 The Georgian Dream wants to speed-run in a gamble, they know that their medium-term is brittle. They no longer care about any popularity, they only care about subjugation through disorganization, managed poverty, and emigration. 1/ 📷 @reuters.com

🇬🇪Georgian Dream joins Tehran’s mullahs in celebrating the Islamic Revolution, honoring a request from the Iranian Embassy to light up Tbilisi’s TV tower in the colors of the Iranian flag. The same regime has killed thousands of its own people. This is what GD chooses to support.

Georgia, the most persistent civic resistance in contemporary Europe, needs one key ingredient — a viable political alternative. In the absence of a dominant, that means some form of unity among democratic parties. Such an alternative would swing the process in several ways: 🧵

🇬🇪Georgia has entered a new phase of political repression. A mass “Opposition Silencing Trial” is now underway in Tbilisi, targeting leading opposition figures in a single, collective prosecution that Georgian Dream brands as a “sabotage case.” 1/10

🇬🇪Georgia is sliding into a legal dictatorship. Not overnight. Step by step. Each protest is met with a new tailored law. Each law designed to exhaust, criminalize, and isolate society until resistance itself becomes illegal. Here is how the latest law changes everything. 1/11

🇬🇪Sanctions work by raising the cost of enabling dictatorship. For years, backing Georgian Dream had been “good for business” because the cost was close to zero. That calculation has now changed. 1/3

🇬🇪Listen to my conversation on @talkgeorgia.bsky.social with Giorgi Rukhadze. Do you agree that Georgia will never become an EU member as long as Georgian Dream stays in power? Is GD the most undemocratic and human rights-violating political force in Europe? www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qSI...

🇬🇪Sanctions work by raising the cost of enabling dictatorship. For years, backing Georgian Dream had been “good for business” because the cost was close to zero. That calculation has now changed. 1/3

🇬🇪Georgian Dream knows it lacks legitimacy. That is why Georgians who say “this government is not legitimate” may soon be committing a "crime". 1/2

In today’s Vatnik Soup, made together with chef invité @martinlaineolen.bsky.social , we discuss the extensive links between pedophile sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein and Russian officials and intelligence operatives, and how Western politicians reinforced these links. 1/23

🇬🇪Listen to my conversation on @talkgeorgia.bsky.social with Giorgi Rukhadze. Do you agree that Georgia will never become an EU member as long as Georgian Dream stays in power? Is GD the most undemocratic and human rights-violating political force in Europe? www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qSI...

🇬🇪Tonight at 19:00 (CET)/ 22:00 (Tbilisi) I’m guest on Talk Georgia. I promise - I’m not holding back. Tune in.

Coming up on Talk Georgia tomorrow at 22:00. youtube.com/shorts/dhlTI...

🇬🇪 I’m honored to be invited as a guest on Talk Georgia. I was concerned, direct but hopefully constructive - and I didn’t hold back. Tune in tomorrow at 22:00 (CET). youtu.be/_E7aEJdsVfs

🇬🇪Georgia is sliding into a legal dictatorship. Not overnight. Step by step. Each protest is met with a new tailored law. Each law designed to exhaust, criminalize, and isolate society until resistance itself becomes illegal. Here is how the latest law changes everything. 1/11

🇬🇪Georgian Dream is Europe’s most un-democratic and human rights-violating force currently in power. Today, they announced new amendments to the "Law on Grants" that criminalize receiving foreign support, restrict political participation, and outlaw core democratic activity 1/12

🇬🇪Georgia and Georgian Dream is emerging as a key enabler of Russia’s sanctioned shadow fleet. New reporting by Finland’s YLE reveals how Georgia-registered companies are keeping Russian oil tankers operational despite EU sanctions. 1/11

🇬🇪 Please take a moment to read the strong message and clear recommendations from the United Nations Rapporteur on Human Rights 🇺🇳. The sad reality is that the current government will never follow her advice. That is why GeorgianDream needs to be replaced.

🇬🇪Georgia and Georgian Dream is emerging as a key enabler of Russia’s sanctioned shadow fleet. New reporting by Finland’s YLE reveals how Georgia-registered companies are keeping Russian oil tankers operational despite EU sanctions. 1/11

🇬🇪Disappointing to see France’s ambassador to Georgia, Olivier Courteaud, meet Irakli Kobakhidze to “continue close cooperation”. This is an illegitimate PM, under non-recognition and non-participation by other democracies.

🇬🇪🇮🇷Georgia is strategically very important to the Iranian regime. Not marginal. Not incidental. Under Georgian Dream, Georgia has become a country Iran actively relies on to move money, goods, and political influence. 1/11