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  • Censorship is boring

    Here quote from Civil.ge newsletter:

    Nodar Meladze, head of the news service at another opposition-leaning channel, TV Pirveli, said the Communications Commission (ComCom), Georgia’s state media regulator, “is attempting” to “prohibit” the channel from using the terms “prisoners of conscience,” “oligarch,” and “political prisoners” in news broadcasts. The case appears to be one of those in which the regulator targets opposition-leaning TV channels under the 2025 laws that granted the agency more powers to control the contents of the broadcasters.

    This is how censorship looks like it is pure form. “Georgian Dream” via control over state bodies like “ComCom”, local communications regulator, attempts to forbid words like “oligarch”. Meanwhile:

    1. oligarch Bidzina Ivanishvili become billionaire in Russian Federation in 1990s.
    2. He is informal ruler of Georgia country who do not hold any state positions but have full control over parliament, government and courts.
    3. He performs this control being boss of pro-Kremlin1 terrorists gang2 masquerading as a political party “Georgian Dream”.
    4. This gang captured power via disinformation campaign in 2012.
    5. Spreading this information is not so safe in Georgia country as it was 5 or 6 years ago.

    But I do this anyway, because formally this is my duty as citizen of Georgia country. Article 78 of Georgian constitution demands from me to do anything possible to reach goal of European integration of Georgia country, and it means exactly EU and NATO integration. This goal matches my personal political preferences as well.

    1. The decisions “Georgian Dream” makes for a while are beneficial for Kremlin ↩︎
    2. Usage of military-grade chemicals like camite against peaceful protestors resembles act of terrorism done for sole purpose to impose atmosphere of fear and suppress protests. This is example of the state terrorism in my opinion. ↩︎
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  • Good news from EU Parliament: ChatControl cancelled (for now)

    End of “Chat Control”: EU Parliament Stops Mass Surveillance in Voting Thriller – Paving the Way for Genuine Child Protection!

    My congratulations, Europeans!

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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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  • This is fascinating

    This is fascinating

    This is fascinating to see how organizations, institutions, and people in Europe, such as OSCE PA leadership, can’t see difference between polarization and total incompatibility with a dictatorship.

    To my understanding, polarization between pro-democracy/pro-EU groups or parties who all normally would have common ground, usually, happens if leadership succumbed to their personal ambitions and still there is some path back towards dialog, by fostering healthy political culture traditions and practices.

    Compare this with total incompatibility between pro-Russian forces (as usually they tend to usurper power and create electoral dictatorship) and everyone else who don’t want lick the Kremlin boots (and are against the mere idea of living under electoral dictatorship or any other dictatorship.

    This post is about these claims that there is just some polarization happens here in Georgia country between the “Georgian Dream” electoral dictatorship regime and pro-EU/pro-Democracy parties.

    There is simple way to spot the difference. In case of polarization multiple sides of interaction spread hate, distrust, or isolation towards political opponents. In case of incompatibility with electoral dictatorship one political actor builds whole their existence over idea of building an electoral dictatorship, and come with promise to outlaw most prominent political opponent(s) or mere option of being not loyal and obedient.

    The “Georgian Dream” regime of electoral dictatorship leaded by a Kremlin operative and billionaire Ivanishvili openly plans to outlaw the same parties EU asks GD to keep dialogue with. EU even asks these parties to keep dialog with GD, if I am correct in understanding some of news about recent OSCE PA officials visit to Tbilisi.

    OSCE PA Delegation Concludes Visit to Georgia, Notes ‘Absence of Political Dialogue’

    EU speaking about some polarization assumes that there are multiple sides inducing the hate towards each other.

    Meanwhile GD electoral dictatorship regime sends leaders of opposition political parties to jail. Peaceful protesters are being jailed for peacefully standing on sidewalks now. And the peaceful protesters have been tortured, beaten, and even poisoned with chemical weapon as BBC discovered!

    Use of camite during the 2024–2026 Georgian protests

    Would you try to keep political dialog with someone who literally tries to kill you? Poison you? Jail you for peaceful protest? Outlaw any foreign funding for you? And even local one, when accounts of local NGOs and foundations who try to help you are frozen.

    Funds Supporting Protesters Frozen

    Would you keep dialog with someone who falsely declare you “foreign agent” for not being loyal and obedient enough?

    It is fascinating to see that level of “verbal blindness”.

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    Fascinating!