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  • Now you can get deported from Georgia for burning Bidzina Ivanishvili portrait

    Now you can get deported from Georgia for burning Bidzina Ivanishvili portrait

    Here is quote from https://civil.ge Monday Cable for 6 April 2026:

    On March 31, less than a week before Afgan Sadigov’s deportation, the journalist publicly burned the portrait of Georgian Dream founder Bidzina Ivanishvili during the daily parliament rally in Tbilisi.

    Simply speaking, now, if you foreigner in Georgia, you can be deported to country you run from for burning portrait of Bidzina Ivanishvili, a Kremlin-friendly billionaire who “become rich” in russia’s 1990s, and who now being informal ruler of Georgia country. Bidizina hurry to build a russia-like dictatorship, and pushes via disputed parliament repressive laws that reminds me late-USSR jokes like this (voice of Gorbachev):

    Can’t I sleep, Raisa,

    Whole Russia is for Boris!

    You adopt a law, Raisa,

    That allow to love only us!

    Or in russian:

    НС ΠΌΠΎΠ³Ρƒ ΡƒΡΠ½ΡƒΡ‚ΡŒ, Раиса,

    Вся Россия Π·Π° Бориса!

    Π’Ρ‹ ΠΈΠ·Π΄Π°ΠΉ Ρ‚Π°ΠΊΠΎΠΉ ΡƒΠΊΠ°Π·,

    Π§Ρ‚ΠΎΠ± любили Ρ‚ΠΎΠ»ΡŒΠΊΠΎ нас!

    Boris Yeltsin is referred here, and his mass popularity in Russia in last years of USSR existence, what Gorbachev, the President of USSR, has been concerned about. Among that joke refers supposed leadership of Raisa, wife of Mikhail Gorbachev, in their family.

    So, this “Georgian Dream” leadership obsession over (their questionable, from my personal point of view!) legitimacy, matched the personal traits of Bidzina Ivanishvili, including paranoia and belief on supernatural effects of common protest performances like burning of his portrait and seeing them as magical rituals and spiritual attacks.

    Of course, any foreigners in today Georgia may notice that today Georgia is not a safe harbor like it was a decade ago.

    But note that Bidzina Ivanishvili is officially just a honorary chairman of “Georgian Dream” ruling party without any special duties and formal power or accountability. So why Bidzina Ivanishvili portrait that important? Because Ivanishvili is actual ruler of Georgia country and he builds a dictatorship here as soon as possible.

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  • Talk Georgia with Giorgi Rukhadze Episode 42. Guest: Giorgi Vashadze. Strategy Agmashenebeli Chair

    Talk Georgia with Giorgi Rukhadze Episode 42. Guest: Giorgi Vashadze. Strategy Agmashenebeli Chair

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  • Reblog of 🦜 Civil Georgia:

    Reblog of 🦜 Civil Georgia:

    Reblog via 🦜 Civil Georgia

    GD Adopts Package Restricting Grants, Political Activity, Lobbying, Government Non-Recognition

    civil.ge/archives/723348

    The Georgian Dream-led disputed parliament has adopted in the final hearing a restrictive package that imposes additional curbs on receiving foreign funding, criminalizes β€œexternal lobbying,” restricts political activities, imposes limits on businesses,…

    The amendments to grants law resemble Soviet restrictions for any communication with foreigners (aka Π·Π°ΠΏΡ€Π΅Ρ‚ Π½Π° ΠΎΠ±Ρ‰Π΅Π½ΠΈΠ΅ с иностранцами).

    The amendments restricting any political activity for business entities are so broad that even employee of any company would dare to say some opposition opinion online, it would be possible to fine the company, even GD denies that.

    The amendments declaring extremism forbids spreading any opinion like that: the current GD gang regime done the state capture in 2012 via Kremlin-spread disinformation, and therefore their rule is not legitimate. The extremism clause is so vague that even “activity aimed at creation of perception of Georgia authorities as illegitimate” and all that vague stuff, any discussion about politics will become soon illegal in Georgia.

    Simply speaking, people will be allowed only to discuss only something politically innocent such as cats, weather, flowers (except roses!) and their favorite food (but without mentioning skyrocketing food prices!).

    I doubt the GD would spend time and resources on total control of anyone speech or something like that, similar to Russian or Chinese censorship for internet right away – usually creating atmosphere of fear via precise imprisonment of few most active people works for some time. But later “Georgian Dream” terrorists gang can decide they don’t feel legitimate enough, and introduce even more legal bullshit whose sole purpose is to send more innocent people behind the bars.

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  • No to Russian propaganda channels!

    No to Russian propaganda channels!

    The weekly protest march of 28 February 2026 in Tbilisi went under slogan “No to Russian propaganda channels!”, referring widespread support of UK decision to impose sanctions against “Georgian Dream” party pet channels “Imedi” and “PosTV”.

    Both of these channels spread Kremlin propaganda against Ukraine. And when it going to internal Georgia events and affairs, they both spread Kremlin-smelling disinformation against EU & NATO, they lying for years and spread disinfo against NGO, cicvil society activists, and pro-EU & pro-NATO political parties and inidividual politicians.

    For while POSTV was even more radical version of Imedi in their policy of lies and disinformation, but now they are same.

    I personally faced this in end of Mikheil Saakashvili presidency when he gave one of best speeches at UN General Assembly. We went to greet Saakashvili in the airport on return, and there was a huge crowd there, supporting him.

    When we returned home, we seen in social media how people get angry (or some – laughing) at Imedi news report where anchor, without a single blink, lied that all these people (including me!) gathered to protest against Mikheil Saakashvili.

    Hope this small example will give you some taste of why Imedi propaganda smells like old putin’s socks. And why so many people support UK sanctions against Imedi and PosTV.

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  • Quite deep explanation of high grocery prices in Georgia country

    Quite deep explanation of high grocery prices in Georgia country

    Economy of No Tomorrow: What Keeps Food Prices Up in Georgia
    Georgia’s food prices have a dozen explanations. The actual problem is what happens when nobody trusts tomorrow.

    Economy of No Tomorrow: What Keeps Food Prices Up in Georgia
    Golden bread loaf
    Golden bread loaf which has been presented to Yanukovich and it found in the Mezhyhirya residence in 2014 after he fled from Ukraine to Russia

    The main problem is that with current fascist occupation administration leaded by Kremlin operative and fake billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili the tomorrow just can not come tomorrow and we can wake up again is the Soviet yesterday of Gulag, Gosplan, and unrealistic prices dictated by “revolutionary expediency”.

    But anyway, here in Georgia we can not trust to Today, as we already live in some hybrid dictatorship where you can wake up in the prison just because your competitor is a relative of State Security Service (today’s KGB) employee and you declared an enemy of the state for daring to critique of some banalities of dictatorship like dead courts or corruption and bureaucracy.

    It may take decades of peaceful life in democracy after ruzzian genocidal empire will collapse, before people would get used to trust to tomorrow.

    PS: I added to this post the photo of famous artifact of Yanukovich era, the golden bread loaf, as visualization of how expensive groceries are becoming in Georgia for many households.

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  • 453rd day of protest in Tbilisi

    453rd day of protest in Tbilisi

    These 3 photos from 453 day of daily protest in across Georgia, taken in Tbilisi during protest. These photos capture the spirit of burning rage of people who are robbed of their european future, freedom, and chance for democratic development of their home country.

    Burning photo of ivanishvili and putin
    Burning photo of ivanishvili and putin
    Protesters burning photo of Kremlin and photo of russian tank
    Protesters burning photo of Kremlin and photo of russian tank
    Burning photo of lavrov
    Burning photo of lavrov, rusisan minister of foreign affairs and famous liar

    The images were taken from a bluesky post written by Mariam Nikuradze.

    I find this act of burning down photos of a war criminal putin, a billionaire and wannabe dictator ivanishvili, and putin pet “liar horse” Lavrov an example of people magic as well.

    Ritual of burining down an image of enemy (and yes, putin, ivaniishvili and lavrov, are enemies of Georgian, Ukrainian and many other peoples), so these rituals of burining down an image of enemy, it is a widely known form protest, and in many magical traditions it is not taken lightly. I would suggest all these three buy tickets to Hague as a lifelong term in the European comfortable prison is lot better for them compared to what can happen as they will continue to organize crimes against people and against humanity.

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  • Can you imagine 444 days of protests in a row?

    Can you imagine 444 days of protests in a row?

    Here is a video from the 444 day of uninterrupted daily protests in Georgia!

    A big turnout on day 444 of daily, uninterrupted protests in Georgia. πŸŽ₯ Levan Zazadze

    — Rusudan Djakeli (@rusudandjakeli.bsky.social) 2026-02-14T17:39:29.208Z

    Not sure whether the video embed will be federated, but at least I can spread the word across Fediverse.

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  • Thought about Georgian NBG decision

    Thought about Georgian NBG decision

    The National Bank of Georgia has announced it has gained access to one of the world’s largest and most important financial markets β€” China’s Interbank Bond Market (CIBM). Georgia joins a limited group of central banks permitted to operate in the market.

    — OC Media (@ocmedia.bsky.social) 2026-02-13T13:01:36.561Z

    There is single reason for such “diversification” – to prepare country for existence under sanctions a-la Iran, with complete detachment from the US and EU finances, and some tricks like crypto and yuan as workarounds.

    But to GD I can remind that if you don’t follow orders from Mordor and return to path of EU membership, you don’t need to use this financial workarounds and financial brainf*ckery.

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  • Path forward for Georgia

    Path forward for Georgia

    This is repost of this thread from Bluesky by Marika MikiashviliΒ .

    Georgia, the most persistent civic resistance in contemporary Europe, needs one key ingredient β€” a viable political alternative. In the absence of a dominant, that means some form of unity among democratic parties. Such an alternative would swing the process in several ways: 🧡

    1. Currently, most average Georgians are increasingly dismissive of the regime but most people have the feeling that their resource and sacrifice today would be just a shot in the air, & it would not flow into the common flow of victory. They don’t feel any backing protection; 2/

    2. The elites need somewhere to defect to. Once they feel the growing pressure of international isolation and financial depletion, who would they talk to, a bunch of parties with no clear dominant or a consolidated alternative platform? 3/

    3. Whenever I talk with the diaspora, they do want to fund the resistance, but are confused about whom to transfer the funds. Once they just get a “menu” of democratic parties, they often hesitate, since they don’t have much intimate trust towards any one. 4/

    On an international level, I don’t believe the Georgian Dream could fully reverse legitimacy and isolation problem, but it’s much easier to impose sanctions and arrange high-level diplomatic meetings when there’s a “government-in-waiting.” 5/

    I do believe in our victory, but the existence of a viable, unified alternative would greatly decide on whether it’s a protracted and grueling process or whether the victory is rather quick and civilized. 6/

    And it’s not like international window of opportunities such as the EU integration could wait forever. This is my position as well as party Droa’s position, and we spare no effort to make this happen. 7/7.

    #GeorgiaProtests #Georgia #GeorgiaCountry #Protests #Democracy

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