Pity that you had to cancel the “Nations in Transit” report. This year, Georgia would have made it to the “semi-consolidated authoritarian regime” category there, on the path of rapid consolidation and stabilization.
Georgia ceased to be a democracy in any sense. Tragically.

A very good read with my humble contributions thepolitic.org/georgias-las...

Interested in how authoritarian regime penetrates, compromises and captures society ? By making people complicit in their crimes.
This is the social-economic model of authoritarianism that does not have minerals or resources to survive. When you can’t plunder oil money, you steal abroad.

🧵In my previous academic work, I have argued that the post-Soviet Georgian elites’ choice of illiberal democracy as a preferred political regime for Georgia was deliberate and conscious. /1

Hans has been vocal on this issue for a long time. This needs to be taken seriously in Germany. The reputation of German legal education is at stake.

After the PACE resolution conditioning their membership in the assembly on new elections, halting repression, and releasing political prisoners, the Ivanishvili regime decided to quit PACE.

Six UN Special rapporteurs have issued joint statement today calling for urgent investigation into systematic torture and inhuman treatment of protesters in Georgia.

Ivanishvili regime is enacting a properly Stalinist public execution show of this brave woman. In the footsteps of its patron Kremlin regime it brings back vile totalitarian practices.
This needs to stop. 🛑

It’s the first time in my career—and I’ve been a journalist for 9 years—that I’m holding a protest banner in my hands. Congrats, GD. You’ve done it; you’ve erased all the lines between journalism and activism for us.

FREEDOM FOR MZIA AMAGLOBELI!

Since the Russian law protests in the spring, the regime has criminally prosecuted 46 political prisoners. To compare, in the USSR of the 70s-80s, the annual number of political prisoners in the union never exceeded 90.

My inboxes are getting hit by messages asking whether I'm still at liberty. Even though I have long expected this hell unleash in #Georgia it still feels surreal to answer those well regarded inquiries, that as it stands, the regime still has not yet arrived at my doors. 😊

Ivanishvili's quisling regime has isolated #Georgia alienated its allies and undermined its sovereignty for the benefit of Russia. Georgian people are once again at war against Russia's imperial domination with a quisling regime of Ivanishvili.
It is urgent to sanction Russia's puppet Ivanishvili.

Russia's quisling regime in Tbilisi has unleashed a brutal wave of mass repression against the Georgian people. This is not just "disproportionate force." Words, especially legal terms, matter. It would imply that some modicum of legitimacy remains;

Tomorrow, Ivanishvili's regime will enact a stint of self-legitimation in flagrant breach of the constitution and parliamentary rules of procedure.

Georgian regime has intensified violent repression.Tents of protesters have been removed. Protesters have been beaten or detained. Regime eagerly wields its huge repressive apparatus. Opponents need a clear strategy to counter this, or developments similar to those in Belarus will become inevitable.

I kept this account dormant for some time. With increased population on this platform, I will probably begin using it as a clone account for my content on X. And we will see where this leads.