George Melashvili 🇺🇦🇬🇪
@mel.ge
🦊 Europe-Georgia Institute, President. Patriot of 🇬🇪. Believer in Georgia's 🇪🇺 Future & Transatlantic Alliance.
As the grandson of a man who embodied courage, dignity, and unwavering duty, this Remembrance Day is both national and deeply personal for me – his values remain with me every single day. [1/7]
November 11, 2025 at 6:33 PM
As the grandson of a man who embodied courage, dignity, and unwavering duty, this Remembrance Day is both national and deeply personal for me – his values remain with me every single day. [1/7]
🧵“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...
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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...
From Kyiv in 3 days to [...] - please fill the gap.
And Ukrainians don't even have Tomahawks... yet - it is proven that best defence against them is tortoise formation.
And Ukrainians don't even have Tomahawks... yet - it is proven that best defence against them is tortoise formation.
October 26, 2025 at 11:10 PM
From Kyiv in 3 days to [...] - please fill the gap.
And Ukrainians don't even have Tomahawks... yet - it is proven that best defence against them is tortoise formation.
And Ukrainians don't even have Tomahawks... yet - it is proven that best defence against them is tortoise formation.
#Putin is the only one responsible for Putin's war - and I am very 'happy' that #Merkel's mask is falling off. Misperception of #Russia, being a #Putinversteher, endangering security of the European continent and responsibility for all the mess we're in now - that's her legacy.
October 6, 2025 at 6:24 AM
#Putin is the only one responsible for Putin's war - and I am very 'happy' that #Merkel's mask is falling off. Misperception of #Russia, being a #Putinversteher, endangering security of the European continent and responsibility for all the mess we're in now - that's her legacy.
🇬🇪 In my recent interview with TVP WORLD, I discussed the mass protests in Georgia on October 4th - and what they reveal about the state of democracy and governance in the country.
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Mass protest in Georgia after local elections | George Melashvili
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October 5, 2025 at 9:00 PM
🇬🇪 In my recent interview with TVP WORLD, I discussed the mass protests in Georgia on October 4th - and what they reveal about the state of democracy and governance in the country.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BLf...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BLf...
🗳️ The lowest voter turnout in Georgia’s municipal election history. The regime wanted a referendum on its legitimacy?
The people have spoken - with silence.
The people have spoken - with silence.
October 5, 2025 at 9:12 AM
🗳️ The lowest voter turnout in Georgia’s municipal election history. The regime wanted a referendum on its legitimacy?
The people have spoken - with silence.
The people have spoken - with silence.
Georgian Nightmare propagandists brag, but lie:
1.) GD froze bank accounts of ISFED - Georgia's oldest & most respected election observer;
2.) GD DID NOT invite OSCE/ODIHR - and utilized Lukashenko's trick by 'inviting' them a couple weeks before the election, [1/2]
1.) GD froze bank accounts of ISFED - Georgia's oldest & most respected election observer;
2.) GD DID NOT invite OSCE/ODIHR - and utilized Lukashenko's trick by 'inviting' them a couple weeks before the election, [1/2]
October 4, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Georgian Nightmare propagandists brag, but lie:
1.) GD froze bank accounts of ISFED - Georgia's oldest & most respected election observer;
2.) GD DID NOT invite OSCE/ODIHR - and utilized Lukashenko's trick by 'inviting' them a couple weeks before the election, [1/2]
1.) GD froze bank accounts of ISFED - Georgia's oldest & most respected election observer;
2.) GD DID NOT invite OSCE/ODIHR - and utilized Lukashenko's trick by 'inviting' them a couple weeks before the election, [1/2]
🇩🇪 Today we congratulate #Germany on Unity Day - a celebration of freedom, resilience, and democracy.
The fall of the Berlin Wall showed the world that no division is eternal, and that freedom always finds its way. [1/9]
The fall of the Berlin Wall showed the world that no division is eternal, and that freedom always finds its way. [1/9]
October 3, 2025 at 8:38 AM
🇩🇪 Today we congratulate #Germany on Unity Day - a celebration of freedom, resilience, and democracy.
The fall of the Berlin Wall showed the world that no division is eternal, and that freedom always finds its way. [1/9]
The fall of the Berlin Wall showed the world that no division is eternal, and that freedom always finds its way. [1/9]
One of Georgia’s oldest non-partisan independent think tanks and research centers, the Georgian Institute of Politics, has succumbed to pressure and is forced to suspend its operations indefinitely. Yet another example of authoritarian and draconian Georgian Nightmare.
October 2, 2025 at 8:10 PM
One of Georgia’s oldest non-partisan independent think tanks and research centers, the Georgian Institute of Politics, has succumbed to pressure and is forced to suspend its operations indefinitely. Yet another example of authoritarian and draconian Georgian Nightmare.
#Durov’s story about “mysterious” French secret services is empty theater. No proof on #Moldova. But #Telegram’s compliance with #Kremlin requests against RU opposition channels is well documented. “Private”? Not really - default E2E off, metadata on.
September 28, 2025 at 3:18 PM
#Durov’s story about “mysterious” French secret services is empty theater. No proof on #Moldova. But #Telegram’s compliance with #Kremlin requests against RU opposition channels is well documented. “Private”? Not really - default E2E off, metadata on.
Dear 🇲🇩 #Moldova, defend your democracy and European choice. Do not repeat 🇬🇪 our mistakes - don’t let Russia in again: it is hell difficult to get rid of their nightmares.
September 28, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Dear 🇲🇩 #Moldova, defend your democracy and European choice. Do not repeat 🇬🇪 our mistakes - don’t let Russia in again: it is hell difficult to get rid of their nightmares.
#Moldova banned the crew of the Georgian governmental propaganda channel #Imedi from entry—the absolutely right way to deal with Russian propagandists spreading anti-EU narratives. EU should follow!
@euingeorgia.bsky.social / @ec.europa.eu / @europarl.europa.eu
@euingeorgia.bsky.social / @ec.europa.eu / @europarl.europa.eu
September 27, 2025 at 7:56 PM
#Moldova banned the crew of the Georgian governmental propaganda channel #Imedi from entry—the absolutely right way to deal with Russian propagandists spreading anti-EU narratives. EU should follow!
@euingeorgia.bsky.social / @ec.europa.eu / @europarl.europa.eu
@euingeorgia.bsky.social / @ec.europa.eu / @europarl.europa.eu
First of all: solidarity with 🇵🇱 Poland. Poland is a country that we, Georgians, and I personally, feel especially close to. Shared pain from RU occupations, Poland’s solidarity during RU's invasion of GE in 2008, and unwavering support for GE's European future have bound our nations together. [1/7]
September 10, 2025 at 6:52 PM
First of all: solidarity with 🇵🇱 Poland. Poland is a country that we, Georgians, and I personally, feel especially close to. Shared pain from RU occupations, Poland’s solidarity during RU's invasion of GE in 2008, and unwavering support for GE's European future have bound our nations together. [1/7]
🇦🇲🇦🇿 Congratulations to our beloved neighbors — at last, this bloody chapter in the history of the #Caucasus has closed. The strings of Russian control have been severed, and a new path toward peace has emerged. May peace & prosperity bless #Armenia, #Azerbaijan, and the entire region. [1/7]
August 9, 2025 at 7:01 AM
🇦🇲🇦🇿 Congratulations to our beloved neighbors — at last, this bloody chapter in the history of the #Caucasus has closed. The strings of Russian control have been severed, and a new path toward peace has emerged. May peace & prosperity bless #Armenia, #Azerbaijan, and the entire region. [1/7]
“It has long been Georgian Dream’s strategy to gradually cut Georgia’s institutional and symbolic ties with the West,” George Melashvili, director of the Europe-Georgia Institute, said.
www.euractiv.com/section/poli...
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Brussels condemns closing down of Georgia's EU and NATO info centre - Euractiv
Tensions between Georgia and the EU have steadily escalated since the Georgian Dream party claimed victory in the 2023 parliamentary elections.
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June 5, 2025 at 5:33 PM
“It has long been Georgian Dream’s strategy to gradually cut Georgia’s institutional and symbolic ties with the West,” George Melashvili, director of the Europe-Georgia Institute, said.
www.euractiv.com/section/poli...
www.euractiv.com/section/poli...
🇬🇪 Georgian Dream is cracking down on free speech - weaponizing the Communications Commission against
TV Pirveli & TV Formula for using words like "regime", "Russification", "clan court" & others. This is not regulation. It’s censorship. Freedom of speech is under attack.
TV Pirveli & TV Formula for using words like "regime", "Russification", "clan court" & others. This is not regulation. It’s censorship. Freedom of speech is under attack.
June 2, 2025 at 4:38 PM
🇬🇪 Georgian Dream is cracking down on free speech - weaponizing the Communications Commission against
TV Pirveli & TV Formula for using words like "regime", "Russification", "clan court" & others. This is not regulation. It’s censorship. Freedom of speech is under attack.
TV Pirveli & TV Formula for using words like "regime", "Russification", "clan court" & others. This is not regulation. It’s censorship. Freedom of speech is under attack.
🚨 At Mariam Lashkhi’s request, a 19-year-old girl is jailed for 12 days.
A “lawmaker” obsessed with “Masonic demons” - who’s done nothing for the country - sent a teenager to prison.
What could be more Soviet, more humiliating than this?
Remember this when you shake her hand.
A “lawmaker” obsessed with “Masonic demons” - who’s done nothing for the country - sent a teenager to prison.
What could be more Soviet, more humiliating than this?
Remember this when you shake her hand.
May 30, 2025 at 5:12 PM
🚨 At Mariam Lashkhi’s request, a 19-year-old girl is jailed for 12 days.
A “lawmaker” obsessed with “Masonic demons” - who’s done nothing for the country - sent a teenager to prison.
What could be more Soviet, more humiliating than this?
Remember this when you shake her hand.
A “lawmaker” obsessed with “Masonic demons” - who’s done nothing for the country - sent a teenager to prison.
What could be more Soviet, more humiliating than this?
Remember this when you shake her hand.
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there is the beautiful theory that academics want to stand for better things & then there is the sordid reality that (especially German) academics continue *directly* collaborating with key perpetrators in #Georgia.
Here my open letter to @ralfmichaels.bsky.social of the @maxplanck.de who is...
Here my open letter to @ralfmichaels.bsky.social of the @maxplanck.de who is...
May 29, 2025 at 11:05 AM
there is the beautiful theory that academics want to stand for better things & then there is the sordid reality that (especially German) academics continue *directly* collaborating with key perpetrators in #Georgia.
Here my open letter to @ralfmichaels.bsky.social of the @maxplanck.de who is...
Here my open letter to @ralfmichaels.bsky.social of the @maxplanck.de who is...
In 1919 Georgia celebrated Independence Day with girls from “Shevardeni” marching in the streets of Tbilisi - today, pro-democracy forces recreated this march. Georgia’s first republic was one of the first countries in the world to grant women right to vote! 🇬🇪
May 26, 2025 at 3:06 PM
In 1919 Georgia celebrated Independence Day with girls from “Shevardeni” marching in the streets of Tbilisi - today, pro-democracy forces recreated this march. Georgia’s first republic was one of the first countries in the world to grant women right to vote! 🇬🇪
The most meaningful way to celebrate Georgia’s Independence Day 🇬🇪 is by listening to Lasha Bakradze’s brilliant lecture on Friedrich-Werner Graf von der Schulenburg — the German diplomat whose pivotal support was instrumental in Georgia’s 1918 declaration of independence.
May 26, 2025 at 12:08 PM
The most meaningful way to celebrate Georgia’s Independence Day 🇬🇪 is by listening to Lasha Bakradze’s brilliant lecture on Friedrich-Werner Graf von der Schulenburg — the German diplomat whose pivotal support was instrumental in Georgia’s 1918 declaration of independence.
🇬🇪 Today, Georgia marks its Independence Day — a short-lived freedom, deprived and crushed by the Russian Empire's aggression, yet the foundation of our modern state. Despite brutal occupation and repression, Georgia will rise. The regime shall fall. Our future is with Europe. Our place is in the EU.
May 26, 2025 at 5:39 AM
🇬🇪 Today, Georgia marks its Independence Day — a short-lived freedom, deprived and crushed by the Russian Empire's aggression, yet the foundation of our modern state. Despite brutal occupation and repression, Georgia will rise. The regime shall fall. Our future is with Europe. Our place is in the EU.
🇬🇪 Georgia's biggest & most popular music festival OpenAir turned into protest manifesto - here's the speech by Georgia's most popular music band LoudSpeakers - "Down with the Russian Regime!" "Freedom to regime's prisoners!" "Fire to the oligarchy!"
May 25, 2025 at 8:47 PM
🇬🇪 Georgia's biggest & most popular music festival OpenAir turned into protest manifesto - here's the speech by Georgia's most popular music band LoudSpeakers - "Down with the Russian Regime!" "Freedom to regime's prisoners!" "Fire to the oligarchy!"
Opposition leader Zurab Japaridze has been arrested - a chilling sign Georgia’s authoritarian regime is consolidating power. More to face political trials soon. Stronger reaction from the West is essential now to defend Georgia’s European future and deter Russian operation against Georgia & Europe.
May 22, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Opposition leader Zurab Japaridze has been arrested - a chilling sign Georgia’s authoritarian regime is consolidating power. More to face political trials soon. Stronger reaction from the West is essential now to defend Georgia’s European future and deter Russian operation against Georgia & Europe.