Jill Shiskin 🤓⚖️🇨🇦🫶🏼🇬🇪🇺🇦🇸🇾
@jill-shisky.bsky.social
Criminal defence lawyer in Calgary, Canada. Social injustice warrior and colonial patriarchy smasher. Childless cat lady. Nap enthusiast. Gen X. INTJ. Swiftie.
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As independent outlets lose funding due to new repressive laws, Georgia’s ruling party is reportedly spending millions to support loyal media agencies. Read our feature on the current struggles of Georgia's critical media organizations:
How Georgian Dream Is Drying Out Independent Online Media - Civil Georgia
Author: Lea Eichhorn It’s noon on a Wednesday in October when, in the middle of her interview with C
civil.ge
October 30, 2025 at 3:05 PM
As independent outlets lose funding due to new repressive laws, Georgia’s ruling party is reportedly spending millions to support loyal media agencies. Read our feature on the current struggles of Georgia's critical media organizations:
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🧵“Sanctions Bubble”-How 🇬🇪 Became Russia’s Safe Haven for Sanctions Evasion 🇬🇪💰🇷🇺 The war in Ukraine reshaped global trade flows, but in Georgia, it created a bubble of profit around sanctions evasion, empowering oligarch and capturing the state. [1/12]
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Dealing with the Sanctions Bubble in Georgia - The Foreign Policy Centre
Summary Western sanctions against Russia, designed to isolate and weaken the Kremlin’s war economy, have instead generated a global “sanctions bubble”: an adaptive ecosystem of intermediaries, offshor...
fpc.org.uk
October 30, 2025 at 3:25 PM
🧵“Sanctions Bubble”-How 🇬🇪 Became Russia’s Safe Haven for Sanctions Evasion 🇬🇪💰🇷🇺 The war in Ukraine reshaped global trade flows, but in Georgia, it created a bubble of profit around sanctions evasion, empowering oligarch and capturing the state. [1/12]
fpc.org.uk/dealing-with...
fpc.org.uk/dealing-with...
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European liberals condemn Georgian Dream’s move to ban opposition, including @LeloStrong. These are authoritarian tactics, not EU values.
We demand free elections and the release of political prisoners. ALDE stands with Georgia’s fight for democracy 🇬🇪
#StandWithGeorgia #ALDEParty
We demand free elections and the release of political prisoners. ALDE stands with Georgia’s fight for democracy 🇬🇪
#StandWithGeorgia #ALDEParty
October 30, 2025 at 3:30 PM
European liberals condemn Georgian Dream’s move to ban opposition, including @LeloStrong. These are authoritarian tactics, not EU values.
We demand free elections and the release of political prisoners. ALDE stands with Georgia’s fight for democracy 🇬🇪
#StandWithGeorgia #ALDEParty
We demand free elections and the release of political prisoners. ALDE stands with Georgia’s fight for democracy 🇬🇪
#StandWithGeorgia #ALDEParty
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"No justice, no peace!"
Day 337 of uninterrupted, nationwide protests in Georgia, where peaceful protests are now criminalized, hundreds are arrested, and opposition parties are banned. 🇬🇪
Day 337 of uninterrupted, nationwide protests in Georgia, where peaceful protests are now criminalized, hundreds are arrested, and opposition parties are banned. 🇬🇪
October 30, 2025 at 5:39 PM
"No justice, no peace!"
Day 337 of uninterrupted, nationwide protests in Georgia, where peaceful protests are now criminalized, hundreds are arrested, and opposition parties are banned. 🇬🇪
Day 337 of uninterrupted, nationwide protests in Georgia, where peaceful protests are now criminalized, hundreds are arrested, and opposition parties are banned. 🇬🇪
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Georgian protesters are singing the EU anthem with Georgian lyrics. 🇪🇺🇬🇪
This is day 337 of uninterrupted, nationwide protests. Rustaveli Avenue is blocked at great personal risk. Dozens have been arrested for “blocking the road”; repeat “offenses” carry up to 2 years in jail.
This is day 337 of uninterrupted, nationwide protests. Rustaveli Avenue is blocked at great personal risk. Dozens have been arrested for “blocking the road”; repeat “offenses” carry up to 2 years in jail.
October 30, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Georgian protesters are singing the EU anthem with Georgian lyrics. 🇪🇺🇬🇪
This is day 337 of uninterrupted, nationwide protests. Rustaveli Avenue is blocked at great personal risk. Dozens have been arrested for “blocking the road”; repeat “offenses” carry up to 2 years in jail.
This is day 337 of uninterrupted, nationwide protests. Rustaveli Avenue is blocked at great personal risk. Dozens have been arrested for “blocking the road”; repeat “offenses” carry up to 2 years in jail.
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Jailed for 7 days for blocking the street during #GeorgiaProtests
🚨Another close friend of mine, a film director Giorgi Mrevlishvili was arrested today
We don’t know exactly yet, but allegedly for "blocking the road" during a protest rally.
We don’t know exactly yet, but allegedly for "blocking the road" during a protest rally.
October 30, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Jailed for 7 days for blocking the street during #GeorgiaProtests
You are all heroes! So proud of Georgians! (So proud of my Georgian heritage and that I share some distant blood/DNA with you amazing, resilient, determined people!)💕🇬🇪
With stricter laws and over 100 detained, protesters continue to block Tbilisi's Rustaveli Avenue every evening, with traffic closed for shorter periods of time before police pushes demonstrators back to sidewalks. Day 337 of #GeorgiaProtests
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October 31, 2025 at 5:22 AM
You are all heroes! So proud of Georgians! (So proud of my Georgian heritage and that I share some distant blood/DNA with you amazing, resilient, determined people!)💕🇬🇪
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Day 3️⃣2️⃣5️⃣
Rustaveli was blocked again!
Rustaveli was blocked again!
October 18, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Day 3️⃣2️⃣5️⃣
Rustaveli was blocked again!
Rustaveli was blocked again!
We are watching! We see you! We are cheering for you!
Thousands of Georgians are filling the streets of Tbilisi to defend democracy, rule of law and their European future. The government’s response — disinformation, violence and repression — will not silence their voices.
October 5, 2025 at 4:28 AM
We are watching! We see you! We are cheering for you!
Hero! 💘
⭕️5th president of #Georgia, Salome Zourabichvili, speaking from Rustaveli Ave, condemned the attempted takeover of Presidential Palace as a provocation to discredit #GeorgiaProtests. She said protesters who’ve been on the streets for 310 days remain committed to non-violence and stay on Rustaveli
October 5, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Hero! 💘
Georgian heroes ❤️🔥🇬🇪❤️🔥
October 5, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Georgian heroes ❤️🔥🇬🇪❤️🔥
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October 4, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Georgian heroes! ❤️🤍❤️
October 5, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Georgian heroes! ❤️🤍❤️
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#GeorgiaProtests: The situation near the Orbeliani Presidential Palace has remained tense for hours, with protesters targeted by water cannons and tear gas. Demonstrations are scattered across Tbilisi.
October 4, 2025 at 7:45 PM
#GeorgiaProtests: The situation near the Orbeliani Presidential Palace has remained tense for hours, with protesters targeted by water cannons and tear gas. Demonstrations are scattered across Tbilisi.
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Georgian PM Irakli Kobakhidze has said one police officer is in ‘severe condition’ with ‘a broken bone and a hematoma’. ‘The state will be the harshest on anyone raising a hand against a police officer’, he added
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October 4, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Georgian PM Irakli Kobakhidze has said one police officer is in ‘severe condition’ with ‘a broken bone and a hematoma’. ‘The state will be the harshest on anyone raising a hand against a police officer’, he added
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🔴 Live updates: oc-media.org/live-updates...
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I stand with Georgia 🇬🇪
October 4, 2025 at 7:58 PM
I stand with Georgia 🇬🇪
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Georgia on my mind 🇬🇪
October 4, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Georgia on my mind 🇬🇪
We see you! We hear you! We support you!
October 5, 2025 at 4:20 AM
We see you! We hear you! We support you!
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#GeorgiaProtests
#GeorgiaProtests
I stand with the freedom loving people of Georgia in their protests against russia-installed government! You are not alone and not forgotten 🇬🇪❤️🇺🇦
October 4, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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#GeorgiaProtests
#GeorgiaProtests
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A doggo waiting for his owner in front of a store, wearing a mask to protect against tear gas from today's #GeorgiaProtests.
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October 4, 2025 at 9:14 PM
A doggo waiting for his owner in front of a store, wearing a mask to protect against tear gas from today's #GeorgiaProtests.
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📷 OC Media
❤️🤍❤️ 🇬🇪
October 5, 2025 at 4:18 AM
❤️🤍❤️ 🇬🇪
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Long live free Georgia!
October 4, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Long live free Georgia!