Marika Mikiashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺
@marikamikiashvili
Droa Party Foreign Affairs. Lecturer, researcher. CEE Europe & Central Asia. University of St Andrews alumna. Aspiring to foster a tangible Democracy, Inc.
Finally sat down to structure my book proposal. Hoping to send it out at the very end of August. Wanted to do it earlier this year, but life and autocracy keep getting in the way. Wish me luck, please 🥰
If I could undo only a few things about the world, Orthodox Russophilia would be one of them.
Georgia’s Communications Commission fined independent and already struggling media outlet Formula TV by GEL 5,000 (EUR 1,700) for terms used on air such as “repressive legislation” and “the Georgian Dream authorities,” which the Commission argues is a “subjective opinion.”
It's Day 597 of daily #GeorgiaProtests 📷 Levan Zazadze
In exchange for further cooperation with Syria, it seems like the EU expects Syria to withdraw the recognition of the Russian-occupied territories of 🇬🇪 and 🇺🇦. Thank you, @LithuaniaMFA, for standing up for 🇬🇪, even as Georgia’s own authorities neglect our national interests.
My friend who had the nervous stamina to watch propaganda media Imedi TV also told me that they are planning to make summer camps to bring Georgian and Turkmen children together.
This is extremely random, but if you don’t have the time and energy to do anything to your hair except washing it, this post-washing spray on damp hair will do wonders.
Well, this is only natural. Georgia has been undergoing the "demilitarization and denazification" operation since 2012, when the Russian proxy regime took power.
Today's march was dedicated to the Georgian heroes in Ukraine. Mothers of fallen Georgian heroes as well as regime prisoner families attended the rally. Day 591 of #GeorgiaProtests 📷 Khatia Kakhidze, @publikage.bsky.social
This is huge! www.interpressnews.ge/en/article/1...
One of the most prominent 🇬🇪 journalists, Vakho Sanaia of the financially struggling Formula TV, was fined GEL 6,000 (~ EUR 2,000) for a post where he "told" people not to call GD Speaker of the Parliament Papuashvili and propagandist Lado Bozhadze d*cks. "Well, I guess now you can then," he says.
This is unbelievable, even for Georgia, but here we are. This retired lady, Mediko, wrote something like a "low class" to some lawyer in comments, got sued under the new "hate speech" laws, was prosecuted, and mandated to apologize. 1/2
In Georgia, the absolute minimum, most budget-friendly expenses for a child within the first year is GEL 7,500, which is HALF of the population's annual median income (and a full third of average income, which isn't even representative). 1/
So, the only two countries to suddenly ban Armenian products for "sanitary" reasons are Russia and Georgia. Coincidence? I don't think so.
No one wants a Russian proxy regime at a table at NATO.
Probably my biggest disappointment in all of this debilitating, protracted process of liberation is that there are almost no funds to aid the suffocated independent media and CSOs — neither domestically, nor internationally. 1/3
A few days ago, parents of regime prisoners distributed the newspapers "The Voice of Freedom from Prison" and "Cell 101" at the Tsalenjika market. 1/2 📷 Ketevan Khutsishvili | Netgazeti Post largely copied from @netgazeti.org