Salome Samadashvili of Lelo: “participation or not in the local elections is a false dilemma created by propagandists” “.. in all those countries where the opposition boycotted the elections, the government will firmly entrench its positions”. Fully correct. www.interpressnews.ge/ka/article/8...

Moldova passes the pre-screening for the accession chapters. The EU said it is surprised by the level of alignment of Moldova to EU legislation in various chapters. This indicates Moldova needs to be decoupled from Ukraine and could be on the road to faster membership. agora.md/2025/09/22/r...

“[Georgian Dream prime minister] Kobakhidze avoided another embarrassment. He would have had nothing to say at the UN, he wouldn’t have been able to hold a single serious meeting, and no one would even have shaken his hand.” says @ninokalandadze.bsky.social jam-news.net/opinion-on-g...

With former Georgian Dream prime minister Giorgi Gakharia effectively in exile in Germany, Georgia's current PM Kobakhidze announces new criminal investigations against Gakharia - now for alleged corruption. netgazeti.ge/news/785739/

Een wet die strijdig is met de grondwet gewoon doordrukken. Het ergste is misschien nog wel de argeloosheid waarmee Keijzer de Raad van State negeert. Schaamteloos.

Hardwerkende (en jonge, 20-jarige) vluchteling wordt uit roomwitte Haagse wijk gepest. Het racisme van Nederland anno 2025. Ik heb tot 2017 in deze wijk gewoond, en ja, het is Urk in het klein. De gentrificatie heeft niet geholpen. www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

Dat zat er dik in. Wat een prutsers ook in dit kabinet. Alleen maar bezig met traineren, vertragen en wettelijk onhoudbare wegen inslaan. Niemand is er ondertussen mee geholpen. Tijd voor dingen die wel kunnen. nos.nl/artikel/2583...

Prinsenvlag, VOC-logo's, nationalistische leuzen, hysterische opruiing, journalisten en politiemannen aangevallen, ruiten partijkantoor D66 ingegooid. VVD-er Heinen: 'Laten we niet alles politiek maken.' De VVD is een verachtelijke partij.

Tot zover het broodje aap dat je opgelepeld krijgt door Google AI “wat mensen ook vragen”. In de categorie “what could possible go wrong”. 🙈

NRC laat duidelijk zien dat de harde kern van voetbalclubs broeinesten zijn van extreemrechts, bereid tot geweld. Het zijn zeg maar de Hollandse titushki’s, knokploegen, voor de extreemrechtse activisten, op voldoende afstand zodat betrokkenheid ontkend kan worden. www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

Als hondeneigenaar vind ik dit wel een ontzettend goede en toffe vinding. Dit weekend gezien ergens in de Benelux.

At the 35th celebration of South Ossetia’s independence declaration, its president appealed to Georgia to recognize the republic “for the sake of the future” and “for justice”. www.radiotavisupleba.ge/a/33535762.h...

Georgian Dream keeps steering Georgia to the East. It wants to have stronger ties with the ASEAN states, now that it feels isolated from the West (and effectively rejects western democracy based on independent rule of law).

Het is een totaal verkeerd signaal het geweld van vandaag af te doen als “het waren een stel hooligans” [een eufemisme voor “het waren niet de demonstranten”]. Deze demonstratie en de gelegenheid om even rel te trappen werd gevoed door hondenfluitjes in politiek Den Haag.

“Alleen links is gewelddadig, demonstreert buiten de orde van de wet en blokkeert wegen”. Maar natuurlijk.🙄 “We werden geprovoceerd”. Ja, vast. “De organisatie riep op tot vreedzame demo”. Dat heeft veel zin als je achterban inherent antirechtstatelijk is. nos.nl/artikel/2583...

During an official visit of the president of the United Arab Emirates, an investment deal of 6 billion USD was sealed with Eagle Hills from the UAE. The official meeting was hosted by Ivanishvili, who clearly took the floor as self-appointed King of Georgia. www.interpressnews.ge/en/article/1...

Georgia’s tourism sector is discontent with the policies of the government, resulting in less European tourists and more from Asia (India +31%, China +42%), who spend less and have “specific demands”. bm.ge/news/did-sur...

Well, the Georgian-Azeri promise to resume the Baku-Tbilisi overnight train per May 2025 wasn’t fulfilled. It’s been noted in Georgia with cynicism. There’s no new date in sight, while Azerbaijan keeps extending every 3 months its “COVID” closed border policy. netgazeti.ge/news/785390/

Dat dwaallichten bij de FvD en de PVV hiermee aankomen is te begrijpen, maar dat "rechtstatelijke partijen" als de VVD en SGP hierin meegaan is natuurlijk behoorlijk idioot. Vooral van de VVD is dit een stuitend voorbeeld van slecht voorbeeld zetten. www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

A day after Trump justified to determine antifa a terrorist group, Georgia follows the example this sets: Parliament speaker calls the largest opposition party UNM and others a "terrorist group" as they called for a "peaceful revolution" on 4 October. www.interpressnews.ge/ka/article/8...

Georgia's import trade turnover grew with nearly 10% to 11.8 billion $. By far the largest part is the import of cars (for re-export), 20% of import. Third largest is "paintings & drawings", 500 million. That's Bidzina's art being relocated tax-free. bm.ge/news/importi...

Wat is die Eerdmans toch ongelooflijk toondoof tav gaswinning in Groningen. #algemenebeschouwingen

In Georgia the Armenian-Turkish discussion on reopening the Gyumri-Kars railway - closed since the early 90s - is followed with close attention. bm.ge/news/giumri-...

After 21 years Georgia has paid off its last debt to Russia and other creditors, stemming from the post-Rose-Revolution debt restructuring deal sealed in 2004. The debt was accumulated in the “roaring 90s”. civil.ge/archives/701...

Georgian Dream leaders know very well how leaky Georgian-Russian border is to bring goods to Russia. Now authorities caught Ukrainian explosives they are in full denial this might have been destined for Russia, knowing Ukraine actually blows up things there. www.interpressnews.ge/en/article/1...

De coalitie die geen coalitie meer is houdt elkaar nog steeds vast tav genocide-ontkenning Gaza - terwijl de VN nota bene constateert dat deze genocide plaatsvindt. Je zou denken dat na Srebrenica Nederland geleerd zou hebben van ontkennen en wegkijken. Niet dus. www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

Het is toch wel de omgekeerde wereld van de twee overgebleven coalitiepartijen om van de oppositie de beweging naar hun toe te verwachten in plaats van zelf de bescheiden broek aan te trekken dat je deze puinhoop hebt veroorzaakt en dus zelf naar de oppositie moet bewegen. nos.nl/artikel/2582...

Remarkable case today in Georgia. According to the prosecutor an unnamed person was detained for an alleged criminal scheme to launder foreign obtained 624 million USD and 35m euro through a money exchange this person owned. civil.ge/archives/701...

Het bezoek van de Nederlandse ambassadeur in Georgië aan de gearresteerde oppositiepolitica Elene Khoshtaria is - hoe voorspelbaar - meteen mikpunt van kritiek van premier Kobakhidze: "[Dit is] niets meer dan een nieuwe aanmoediging van radicalisme, een grove schending van het Verdrag van Wenen".

Georgian PM Kobakhidze announces "strictest" enforcement of the law regarding election banners "regardless the party" after a Georgian Dream poster was "vandalized" by Elene Khoshtaria That's easy to commit to since no other party except Lelo has a campaign. batumelebi.netgazeti.ge/news/587512/

The US "will provide $145 million in assistance to Armenia" for the so-called TRIPP route aka "Zangezur-route", an official of the State Department’s Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs announced last week. en.armradio.am/2025/09/12/u...

Participation in Georgian local elections remains divisive issue, also within opposition parties that do take part: Number 3 of Gakharia’s party in the parliamentary elections, Dimitri Tskitishvili, announced has “parted ways” with Gakharia over this and others issues. netgazeti.ge/news/785164/

Precies dat. De schaal van totalitaire destructie en verlies aan burgerlevens door Netanyahu’s beleid is gelijke het regime van Assad en Poetin. Beiden erkende paria’s. Maar helaas is de westerse rechtse goegemeente nog niet zover om dat in te zien. www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

It’s sad to see Saba Buadze leave Lelo party. I have known Saba as a very reasonable person with good political ideas. A few years ago I showed him around in my city Delft - as councilor in Tbilisi he was curious about how we do things in the tight urban space. netgazeti.ge/news/785088/

The pettiness of the Georgian authorities is sized by this picture. “Damage” of the election poster of the ruling party is measured by the police in a “criminal investigation”. I mean, really.

The Georgian Dream government delays both Poti and Anaklia port developments. The Poti port - the largest of Georgia - was planned to be expanded with a deep sea port section, but according to Poti port director the plans are deliberately delayed. bm.ge/news/faqtia-...

Nederlandse ambassadeur in Georgië: op de dag van de democratie is er weinig te vieren in Georgië met veel oppositieleiders in detentie.

Quite an “explosive” story the Georgian authorities make out of the intercepted explosives and detained Ukrainians. oc-media.org/georgia-says...

Georgian opposition leader Elene Khoshtaria (Droa/Coalition for Change) has been detained at her home. Allegedly for damaging an election banner of incumbent Tbilisi mayor Kakha Kaladze. www.interpressnews.ge/ka/article/8...

Wanneer politiek wensdenken de leidraad wordt en interne juridische adviesorganen worden genegeerd ten faveure van private consultants met broddelwetgeving als gevolg. www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

Senior GD MP Volski accuses the EU of sending its ambassador in Georgia on a mission to overt the government via the “extremist opposition” www.interpressnews.ge/en/article/1...

Tensions are rising towards the local elections in Georgia in three weeks, with new arrests of opposition leaders, triggering a new impulse to protests. Over the past months, the daily crowd was quite limited, but last night saw a decent revival.

Georgia’s ruling party pretends to be in an existential fight to defend the country against external evil, penetrating their own ranks as well. GD executive secretary Kaladze highlighted “the honorary chairman [Ivanishvili] has set everything aside” for this. www.interpressnews.ge/en/article/1...

The US has so far been rather cold to the love declarations (or begging) by Georgian Dream to restore their relationship, finding in Trump an ideological partner "fighting against the 'Deep State'". However, the US did not sign a critical statement of the OSCE. civil.ge/archives/700...

Georgian opposition politician and former UNM leader Khabeishvili has officially been charged with “promising bribes to public officials to overthrow the government”. www.interpressnews.ge/en/article/1...

The city government of Tbilisi announced earlier this year to build a tramline in the city, between Didube metro station (central line) and the Didi Digomi neighbourhood in the northwest of the city. The city had trams since the late 19th century till 2006. georgiatoday.ge/tbilisi-to-a...

...en ze schamen zich er niet eens meer voor. De schaamte voor uiterst-rechts is voorbij. Door het normaliseren van mensen als Wilders. En Baudet, al maakte die zichzelf op zijn hoogtepunt steeds meer belachelijk. Door zijn hallucinante dwalingen, niet vanwege zijn crypto-fascisme.

Among other things, the international federation of human rights calls for the invocation towards Georgia of the OSCE Moscow Mechanism. This provides sending expert missions to member states to assist in the resolution of problems relating to the human dimensions. www.fidh.org/en/region/eu...

Na ruim drie en een half jaar (en sterker: sinds 2008) is de Nederlandse politiek nog steeds geïntimideerd door de gedachte “we moeten niet in direct gevecht met Rusland komen”. Juist dát geeft Poetin zoveel ruimte en vrijbrief. Juist dát heeft ons gebracht waar we zijn. www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

Khabeishvili has been arrested on corruption charges. He is accused of "publicly promising to bribe law enforcement officers if employees of the Department for Special Tasks of the Ministry of Internal Affairs refused to perform their duties during anti-government protests"