true.

So she admits that Mzia is a political prisoner.

I love how the flag of Ukraine is always there along with flags of Georgia and the EU. 🇬🇪 🇺🇦 🇪🇺

German journalist and political scientist Mandy Ganske-Zapf explains how Russian disinformation spreads in Germany and manipulates societal fears.

I visited Brussels with colleagues from Georgian online media. It was a busy, important, and emotional trip, full of off-the-record meetings about Georgia’s political situation and future. And It crushes me to see us losing our chance to be part of Europe because of an oligarch.

There’s no way for Georgian Dream to continue like this forever. This is a test of nerves and endurance. The one who endures the longest will win and I am sure, it will be us. Just a little more.

Today, Nino Datashvili was released on bail. She had difficulty walking and was crying from the pain. Her health condition had worsened in prison, and she now needs two surgeries. This situation could have been prevented, but at least she is no longer in prison. 📸: Mariam Qavshbaia/Publika.ge

Last week’s summary 👇 statesofmatter.substack.com/p/the-week-o...

It’s very difficult to attend the Rustaveli protest every day. It takes a lot of physical and emotional strength. That’s why it isn’t full of people every day. But the protest and the anger are still here, if not grown after all the injustices the GD gov't has inflicted.

Basti is one of the kindest people you could ever meet. And it’s completely absurd that he was detained by mistake.

Publika journalist Mamuka (Basti) Mgaloblishvili was arrested, allegedly for “blocking Rustaveli.” He had been covering the protests there for the past few days. We are trying to find out more details. #TerrorinGeorgia

Irakli Gharibashvili was Bidzina Ivanishvili's favorite person in GD until the last few years.

GD hates Rustaveli protest and is doing everything possible to suppress it.

The State Security Service says former MP Irakli Gharibashvili admitted to illegally receiving budget funds for years but will “consider measures” against him since he cooperated with investigators. Meanwhile, people are jailed for years for doing nothing.

Under the GD government’s repressive law, dozens were detained for blocking Rustaveli Ave, including 76-year-old Giorgi Vachadze. Judge Koba Chagunava gave him a verbal reprimand; a second violation could lead to criminal prosecution. #TerrorinGeorgia

1/ So, if you are standing on the sidewalk on Rustaveli, you most likely won’t be arrested, but on your way home, the police will search you to see if you have a face mask, including medical masks, that could be used to cover your face.

Okay, there was an order, but at least someone should have a little brain and empathy not to scare and oppress an elderly woman. But nooo.

Here is a summary of the key political events in Georgia for the week of October 13–19. #GeorgiaProtests #TerrorinGeorgia

That's what happens when you're very corrupt and you're serving an oligarch. The regime doesn't spare anyone.

Patiently waiting for the day Irakli Kobakhidze and Shalva Papuashvili join them whatever the reason, doesn’t matter.

Just take a look - who’s being arrested? Vulnerable people who only wanted and hoped for a better country and a better future.

After the Rose Revolution, perhaps even before the 2024 elections, Georgia experienced its most hopeful period in centuries. After generations of occupation and suffering, we believed we could build a decent, European state. Georgian Dream is taking that hope away.

“And yet, by arresting Abzas Media’s reporters, the state itself provided them the access it would never have granted. The government intended their imprisonment as punishment, as the end of their journalism — instead, it became the beginning of a new journalistic form”.

Still manages to shock me.

Sometimes I think the protests are small and ineffective. But the reality is that GD hates the Rustaveli protests (for a reason) and is working in every possible way to suppress them.

Summary of the events of October 4, for those interested. open.substack.com/pub/statesof...

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You have no idea how many people in Georgia are following the Moldovan elections and supporting Maia Sandu. Moldova can do it, one more time 🇲🇩

Please take a few minutes to read Mzia's letter. How can she be this strong?

Shalva Papuashvili is the worst. His statements are the heaviest and truly extreme.

1/ The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia summoned the German Ambassador, Peter Fischer, for a meeting held on 24 September.

I wrote an article about Nino Datashvili, a teacher and protest participant unlawfully imprisoned by GD. While her story is familiar to Georgians, I wanted to bring the information together for international readers interested in developments in Georgia. statesofmatter.substack.com/p/nino-datas...

The article is very interesting. It breaks my heart that it starts with the fact that Georgia has lagged behind because of GD, but unfortunately, that is the terrible truth. agora.md/2025/09/16/c...

Citizens gathered today at Kakha Kaladze’s election headquarters, where his supporters had attacked protesters yesterday. ‘Russians, Russians,’ ‘Who is Kaladze? – A murderer,’ they chant. #GeorgianProtests Day 286

The so-called Georgian Dream government is not a police regime; it is a criminal gang that directly controls the country. The police serve only one purpose: to protect this gang.

I wrote a news article summarizing Tsulukiani's report on the 2008 war and how the occupied regime of Tskhinvali reacted to it.

A few days before his arrest, Givi Targamadze said on Formula that Georgian Dream is not a national government, which is bad. It is a Russian government directly installed by the FSB. That’s right.

If there were no Russia I would say so. Because, of course, Putin is evil. But Russia is Russia with or without him - imperialist and terrible.

GD moved to using psychiatry to punish people.

We are so done! F off, GD.

Georgian Dream has abandoned 23 y/o Mamuka, because they are Russians themselves. Can anyone else help him?

It's terrifying, tiring and stressful to live like this. #TerrorinGeorgia

Israeli forces have killed at least 51 people and wounded more than 200 in the latest massacre of Palestinians waiting for desperately needed humanitarian aid in Gaza, according to the territory's health ministry. http://jrnl.ie/6735144

"Let the rotten Russian empire fall" — Protesters burn Russian flag. The Video. #GeorgiaProtests Day 200

"Let the rotten Russian empire fall" — Day 200 of continuous protests in Georgia — Protesters burn Russian flag. #GeorgiaProtests

🧵Even with cameras, press badges & footage proving they were working, journalists are being fined for “artificially blocking roads.” Reporters from Publika, OC Media, Aprili Media & others face penalties just for covering protests, while courts & police reject all appeals. 1/

“Glory to Georgia, f*ck Russia” — the musical group Loudspeakers at the Tbilisi Open Air festival Yesterday, on May 25. 📸 Anna Vakhtangadze

Loved the performance.

Reporting and journalism are becoming crimes in Georgia.

Zurab Jafaridze, leader of “Girchi-More Freedom”, was arrested in the courtroom for failing to pay bail after skipping a session of the GD-led parliamentary commission. The commission, chaired by Tea Tsulukiani, is tasked with “investigating the crimes of UNM.”