For a shackled leviathan

Nice. It’s like fabulous vomit all over it

Give Hungary the boot already. It's high time for them to get to the FO phase already.

Nah, but it's quite a close second at the moment

I have never seen as much solidarity among us Europeans as today. And it makes me proud.

Trump thinks he humiliated Zelensky. He humiliated the United States of America. And he made the world a much more dangerous place. Mob boss foreign policy will not work. The Trump-Putin axis fully came out of the closet today.

I’ve never felt such contempt for the USA….

On the day of russian invasion of Ukraine, 3 years ago, a big march of support is going on in Tbilisi.

It started from the Ukrainian embassy and is moving towards the daily protest location infront of the parliament.

On the way, people stopped at the Taras Shevchenko statue.
🇺🇦🇬🇪

"False witness, executioner" – Protesters brought mirrors to the rally on Rustaveli Avenue for police officers to look at themselves.

#GeorgiaProtests

Day 79

📷Basti Mgaloblishvili, Makuna Gochiashvili

The problem with that is, that all sizable parties don’t really seem to have a clear political compass. It mostly feels like plain populism, packaged in different flavours.

Plus, the right vs left culture war was imported before a defined right/left could even be formed…

1. Possibility growing by the day, as illegitimate govt. is constricting almost completely freedom of expression and assembly.
2. Yes
3. Keeping up pressure by not recognising GD, sanctions, more sanctions - the rest is our mess to clean up.

Georgia's self-proclaimed government, the Georgian Dream Party, is illegitimate.

In a resolution, MEPs called on the international community to join the boycott of the self-proclaimed authorities, who they accuse of eroding the country’s democracy & cracking down on dissents.

Day 78 - and the protests are still going strong.

Major protests are planned on the 15th and the 18th.

Georgia is being Stalinized. If it becomes a second Belarus, that would be a huge and unaffordable blow to Europe.
My interview for @ipnEng:
www.interpressnews.ge/en/article/1...

Sorry for my french but these fuckers are all in.
Hans is a great person and friend of Georgia, who if you’d know him? never even harmed a fly.

Marches won’t solve anything - the only way forward seems to be the violent one.

Today, more than ever before, dozens of protesters and some journalists among them are getting calls or visits from the police notifying them about being fined "for blocking road" on Rustaveli. The amount of fine is USD 1,770 now.

We’re so fkn back baby!

Are you #StandingWithGeorgianPeople in their protest again 'russian dream' lunatics?

READ the text of “Georgian Nightmare Non-Recognition Act’👇 and call your lawmaker to support H.R.-243

#SaveGeorgia

For Georgian Dream, "traditional values" means that stupid men can live out their violent fantasies.

We see this in action practically every day.

Savages. This is what we are up against in Georgia.

Do not mistake our struggle for your average hand holding demonstration in some safe European country.

Thanks Hans 🙏🏼
Unfortunately our paths didn’t cross today. Though I met a guy hauling his bike across the landbridge at the mall, but that definitely wasn’t you!

Look at her charging back in.
Absolutely badass.

A legion of those shitless scared masked militia got nothing on just this one lady.

After over 14km, the march from the city entrance finally made it to Rustaveli Avenue, which was already closed down by other protesters shortly before.

I’m proud of my people. It’s not an easy fight - as those that are worth fighting aren’t. But we have shown grit and tenacity. And we’ll prevail!

Several kilometers further, along Tbilisis main river, arrests were renewed. One of the arrested is former director of Georgia’s National Bank, Giorgi Kadagidze.
(Vid not mine)

On the way, the city court building was heavily fortified.

As the long march began, spirits remained high, with songs, shouts and whistles (here the traditional anti-GD hymn).
With us were kids and elderly.

Police were following along, not letting us fully close the highway.

As the police pushed back and their numbers became overwhelming, protesters decided to move to the parallel highway, which leads towards the city center.

As the situation started to heat up even more, a black SUV arrived, carrying internationally sanctioned GD ‘strongman’ Zviad Kharazishvili.

Scuffles broke out soon and arrests intensified.
Footage emerged later with him personally beating arrested and cuffed prosters. So much for ‘strong’…

Among the first to be arrested was opposition leader Nika Melia, who had his clothes torn off in the process

As more and more protesters arrived and pushing further ahead, the OMON style special forces got their orders and started to arrest people.