Re upping this, superb event in Tbilisi on Friday and Saturday. #Tbilisi 2026 – Debates On Europe share.google/XONUg9Ej6n6P...
and here also more on this interesting case:
www.interpressnews.ge/en/article/1...
I had missed this bit, but saw it in @ocmedia.bsky.social 's useful roundup -- with the purges inside GD guard, lots we learn, for example just how much of a cut you apparently were asked for.
More detail, and eventually the price came down a bit here: caspianpost.com/georgia/ex-g...
The lawyer of the former Deputy Head of the State Security Service, Levan Akhobadze, says that there is no evidence confirming that Akhobadze took a bribe, and announced that they will appeal the cour...
www.interpressnews.ge
Here the striking case. www.cbc.ca/player/play/...
And here a petition, in Georgian and English.
www.manifest.ge/petition/4a4...
(A/B tested the title -- curiously the old version still partially visible in shortened link.)
The article also argues that nihilistic totalitarianism still is the better label and that it may have apocalyptic consequences for GD itself.
Hans Gutbrod
Hans Gutbrod
A 22-year-old Canadian man travelling to Georgia has been detained for carrying his ADHD medication without its original packaging and a doctor's note. Simon Rovensky's sister, Nika Rovensky, shares w...
With detention of the Canadian tourist who brought his ADHD medication (w prescription!), apparently in jail for a month already, good reminder to read travel advisory ultra closely. (Acc to one report, he didn't have original packaging.)
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Hans Gutbrod
Hans Gutbrod
a while back, some of you gave input to assess the state of autocracy in #Georgia.
Results are in & detailed picture is not good. Courts, manipulating law; prosecution of oppo as worst features, many others bad also. For detail, incl surprise with AI, read here.
open.substack.com/pub/hansgutb...
really excellent post on "bad news for those who think differently", situation in Georgia -- (in German) by @thomasfranke.bsky.social www.gzaeurope.org/post/thomas-...
