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"Georgian Dream" steers towards Russian-style authoritarianism, say Georgia's EU partners

Foreign agents' law in Georgia

May 02, 2024

"No joint projects or photographs with high-ranking Georgian officials"

"To calm everyone down in the long term, we need to adopt the foreign agents bill,"- the Prime Minister of Georgia

Foreign agents' law in Georgia

May 01, 2024

"The government will not retreat; the protests were organized by Peter Ackerman to foment a revolution."

Protesters vs. riot police in Tbilisi: how the massive protest on April 30 was dispersed. Video

Foreign agents' law in Georgia

May 01, 2024

The riot police employed water cannons, pepper spray, tear gas, fired rubber bullets, and beat protesters

Gas, water cannons, beatings of tens of thousands of protesters in Tbilisi. How did the night go and what's next?

Foreign agents' law in Georgia

May 01, 2024

Opponents of the "agents" bill plan to hold a larger rally on May 1. Regions are joining Tbilisi

Ruling faction rejects opposition's border demarcation proposal as 'dangerous for Armenia'

Armenia

May 01, 2024

The opposition proposed establishing the border with Azerbaijan along the 1993 line of contact, which reflects the outcome of military actions. The ruling faction denounced this as an attempt to "legitimize the right to force"

Georgian prime minister called the president a traitor

Foreign agents' law in Georgia

April 30, 2024

President Salome Zourabichvili stated that "dark forces" have become active today, attempting to divide society

"I'm not sure exactly why I'm here. I'll be defending national values." Vox-pop with participants of the rally of Georgia's ruling party

Russian law

April 30, 2024

The majority of the rally participants refused to speak on camera and generally tried to avoid being filmed

Azerbaijan: Eighth arrest in the "Abzas Media case"

Arrests in Azerbaijan

April 30, 2024

This time, the well-known human rights activist engaged in election monitoring, Anar Mammadli, has been detained on charges of smuggling

Ivanishvili voiced what awaits Georgia after the elections at the rally (spoiler: nothing good)

Georgian Dream

April 30, 2024

"Saakashvili intends to silence NGOs, punish the opposition, and disregard the recommendations of the European Union"

Ruling party rally in Tbilisi: No EU flags or posters - Report, photos, videos

Georgian Dream

April 30, 2024

The participants of the rally clearly had nothing to say: no one had posters with calls to action or statements in their hands

"Ivanishvili or Georgia" - assessments of the speech by the oligarch-leader of the ruling party

Bidzina Ivanishvili

April 30, 2024

"The Georgian government has directly declared the West an enemy of Georgia and promised new repressions. It sows hatred and discord, it needs to be stopped"

"We urge Georgia's government to meet citizens' expectations," - Josep Borrell's press secretary

Foreign agents' law in Georgia

April 29, 2024

"Georgia, as an EU candidate country, is expected to meet the Copenhagen criteria, which include adherence to democratic principles, the rule of law, and human rights".

"The future of Georgia is in Europe, not Russia" - 120,000 protest in Tbilisi against the foreign agents bill. Video

Russian law

April 29, 2024

"We are facing a serious threat from Russia, we see what it is like from the example of Ukraine." Report from the rally and interviews with its participants

"Ivanishvili and his 'Dream' shifted course towards Russia," - the statement of Georgian diplomats

Georgia

April 29, 2024

"In the country's history there are moments when silence equals complicity"

Tens of thousands continue protests in Tbilisi against Georgia's 'foreign agents' bill

Foreign agents' law in Georgia

April 29, 2024

Mass anti-government demonstrations have been taking place in Tbilisi since the beginning of April

Fourteen US senators pledge sanctions and visa bans against Ivanishvili's regime in Georgia

Foreign agents' law in Georgia

April 27, 2024

"This legislation would cast Georgia’s strongest  partners, the United States and European Union, as malign actors. Such a shift would require  U.S. policy toward Georgia to change and reflect the new state of Georgia’s politics". 

"Teenager arrested and beaten for wearing a hoodie" - Scandal in Abkhazia over police abuse

Abkhazia

April 26, 2024

The mother of the teenager, who suffered from police abuse in Abkhazia, began to fight the system alone

In 2023, the number of asylum seekers in Georgia increased by 95.6%

Georgia

April 26, 2024

According to the National Statistics Service, in 2023, the number of immigrants in Georgia reached 245,064 people, which is 95.6% higher than the previous year

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