This was filmed two days before Russian forces massacred peaceful protesters in Tbilisi. April 1989. The Soviet empire was still intact - and Georgians were already fighting to escape it, already demanding our place in the West. We have paid dearly for that conviction. We are still paying. Watch.
Unbelievable that politicians like Angela Merkel are still so widely treated as symbols of wisdom and stability after helping block a real path for Georgia and Ukraine, and leading the way to the war. [5/5]
The tragedy of Bucharest is that the West chose the worst of both worlds: enough rhetoric to provoke Russia, but not enough commitment to deter it. [4/5]
A few months later came the invasion of Georgia. Then Crimea, Donbas, and eventually the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. [3/5]
Georgia and Ukraine were promised eventual membership, but denied the concrete path needed to get there. Ambiguity was sold as compromise. In reality, it emboldened the Kremlin. [2/5]
On this day in 2008, NATO made one of its greatest strategic mistakes at the Bucharest Summit. [1/5]
The Patriarchal Throne is widowed.
From this day, until the election of a new Primate, the Georgian Apostolic Autocephalous Orthodox Church shall be governed by the Locum Tenens of the Patriarchal Throne, Metropolitan Shio Mujiri.
Ilia II was the 141st First Hierarch of the Georgian Church.
At the age of 93, in the 49th year of his enthronement upon the Patriarchal Throne, His Holiness and Beatitude Ilia II, Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia, Archbishop of Mtskheta-Tbilisi, and Metropolitan of Bichvinta and Tskhum-Abkhazia, has fallen asleep in the Lord.
An elite oligarch-backed university. A secretive research centre. A name that should have remained buried in history: Ahnenerbe. A very dark story where pseudoscience, power, and Nazi mythmaking collide in plain sight. 👇
Link in second tweet.
Not even a note saying whether the applications had a “formal flaw.” The only response they ever got? “Don’t email - bring the paper.” Since July 2025, media outlets (including the public broadcaster and sanctioned Imedi TV) were allowed to film only once - in the case of Giorgi Bachiashvili. [2/2]
What you need to know about REAL freedom of the press in Georgia: since Georgian Dream banned filming in courts, #Publika & other medias have submitted around 20 formal requests to the High Council of Justice asking to record trials. Zero replies. 0. [1/2]
, online outlets terrorised with threats of arrest.
And yet Imedi and POSTV dare to play the victim and lecture us about “media freedom”? The audacity is staggering. [2/2]
The UK sanctions Imedi TV and POSTV for Russian disinformation.
Meanwhile in Georgia: critical media pushed to the brink of closure, journalists beaten, a female media leader jailed... [1/2]
While real universities are dismantled, this is what replaces them.
History has already shown where such ideas lead. [11/11]
This is not harmless eccentricity.
It is a coherent apocalyptic ideology, laundered through “linguistics” and hosted by a university backed by Bidzina Ivanishvili. [10/11]
Tsintsadze openly references Ahnenerbe—Himmler’s SS unit and laboratory of Nazi race theory.
Add Atlantis myths, Aryans vs Semites, solar vs lunar races. The pattern is not subtle. It’s textbook. [9/11]
Occultism is treated as science.
Gematria is elevated to a “divine code.” Aleister Crowley is cited as an authority.
The Orthodox Church explicitly forbids numerology and divination. This isn’t theology—it’s esotericism with footnotes. [8/11]
The Bible itself is declared a pagan forgery.
Scripture is described as “stolen” Iberian/Sumerian priestly knowledge. Even Revelation is reassigned to pagan authors.
Divine inspiration disappears; Christianity becomes plagiarism. [7/11]
Incarnation, Resurrection, Judgment—removed.
Salvation history is replaced by numerology, calendars, and “codes.” Christian theology is hollowed out and replaced with arithmetic. [6/11]
Jesus Christ is reduced to mathematics.
Christ becomes a numerical cipher (51, 99), a solar-calendar function, even framed as “Aryan.”
The Second Coming is no longer the return of the Son of God—but the revelation of a “correct” calendar. [5/11]
Christian eschatology is inverted.
The number 666—the Number of the Beast—is rebranded as “peace” and “wisdom,” tied to calendar mechanics.
This is not interpretation or debate. It is a full reversal of the Book of Revelation. [4/11]
Enter Aliko Tsintsadze—the oligarch’s personal astro…whatever.
This is not harmless folklore or eccentric linguistics. It is a closed belief system built on numerology, occultism, racial myth (aham!), and theological negation—now circulating under a university logo. [3/11]
KIU was sold as Georgia’s academic future: world-class standards, Western partnerships, science, technology, critical thinking.
Instead, while Ilia State and other real universities are attacked or hollowed out, KIU elevates fringe figures hostile to basic academic method. [2/11]
What does Bidzina Ivanishvili teach at his university in Kutaisi while real universities are being dismantled?
As public institutions lose programs, staff, and academic freedom, his flagship project—Kutaisi International University—moves in a very different direction. [1/11]
If you miss Dan Brown—secret codes, mystical calendars, numerology dressed up as revelation—you don’t need a thriller.
Georgia now has the real thing.
It’s being taught under a university logo, funded by an oligarch. Curious? Buckle up! 🧵👇
Former NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg: “The big mistake was not to provide more support earlier to Ukraine.”
The West’s gravest mistake was its (non-)reaction to Russia’s invasion of Georgia in 2008. That failure to act opened the gates of hell Russia would later unleash on the continent.
Pleased to be quoted in a @kyivpost.com analysis unpacking how #Georgia’s gov masks authoritarian drift behind carefully crafted rhetoric. Grateful to James Lewis for rigorous reporting & taking propaganda seriously - as policy, not noise. Clarity still matters. 🇬🇪🇪🇺
www.kyivpost.com/analysis/69983
so many others for weeks. My jacket had to hang outside for days because the smell & irritation wouldn’t fade. What was done to us should not be just ignored. Those responsible must be held to account. Thank you, BBC, for for the truth and giving our experience the attention it deserved. [2/2]
