Nicholas Pearce @nickpearce_3
Freelance Journalist in Tbilisi. Editor @novayagazeta_en. Rerum cognoscere causas. [email protected] Joined June 2018-
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Speaker of Georgian Parliament @shpapuashvili says a database will be created collecting those who are "involved in violence, other illegal actions, threats and blackmail, or who publicly endorse such actions" "endorse such actions" is very opaque. interpressnews.ge/ka/article/798…
Projectiles fired from the parliament building by riot police. Police using tear gas to disperse protesters
Protest against the foreign agents law continues in earnest tonight. Tens of thousands gathering on Rustaveli, many have come from other regions, as far as Batumi. Today the parliament passed the second reading of the bill. It’s set to be a tense night, to put it mildly.
Bidzina Ivanishvili has emerged with a dark vision for Georgia’s future. In an unhinged rant filled with conspiracy theories and threats of repression, Georgia’s ruling oligarch made clear he will not tolerate dissent — from within or from abroad. oc-media.org/opinions/edito…
"Tomorrow, at 12:00, the whole of Batumi will gather at Europe Square and we will go to Tbilisi in a convoy" — says a joint statement of the Batumi opposition parties and non-governmental sector. Expecting other regions to join the convoy
Police have used a water cannon to disperse protesters against Georgia's foreign agent around the parliament building. Tens of riot police were seen marching onto Rustaveli Avenue from Freedom Square with water and sound cannons. ➡️ Live updates: oc-media.org/georgias-forei…
Unbelievable footage of riot police brutally beating up civilians behind the Georgian parliament in Tbilisi
Some afterthoughts:
Bidzina not looking back
Former PM, Georgian Dream leader Irakli #Garibashvili speaks: Dignity, freedom, sovereignty, key values. Recalls 2012, when Georgian people showed the intention to live in a free country and liberated from anti-national, repressive, treasonous regime under the leadership of…
Georgian Dream have organised a counter-demonstration today. Civil servants have been bused in to Tbilisi in an effort to show support for the foreign agents bill.
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I promised myself that I would tweet when my book came out. I had to get off twitter for a bit, but here it is.
Giggling while I use the suffering of Arab civilians to whitewash the suffering of North Korean civilians in the name of "intersectionality" on my $90,000 tuition campus.
Shot / chaser
what better way to honor Fyodor Dostoyevsky's legacy than to unintentionally talk like a Dostoyevsky character freaking out about something meaningless and having everyone get mad at him
Oh, my dear New York. Just want to kindly remind you that Ukrainians have been killed by russians for centuries. More than 2 years ago russia started the full-scale invasion But looks like you try to find the answers and understand this “mysterious russian soul” even more and mor
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Sheikh Essam Al Attar has passed away at age 97. A long time adversary to the Syrian regime, exiled from Syria in 1963 — never allowed to return home since. He dedicated his entire life for a better Syria.
@maxfras All hail Saint Ignatius the NGO Devourer
Protesters in Tbilisi dance a traditional 'khorumi', as they block Heroes Square. ➡️ Live updates: oc-media.org/georgias-forei…
A person plays a trumpet outside the Georgian Parliament, where police continue to deploy tear gas and water cannons against protesters. ➡️Follow our live updates on Georgia’s draft foreign agent law: oc-media.org/georgias-forei…
As Mao Zedong famously said, "revolution is a dinner party."
Reporter grills Columbia student after she demands the university help feed protestors occupying Hamilton Hall: "It seems like you're saying, 'we want to be revolutionaries, we want to take over this building, now would you please bring us some food'."
Update from Rustaveli at 2:40am: Still lots of people between Opera and Parliament with police holding line at the latter. Relatively peaceful stand-off again for now. 🧵
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This will be news to our local branch of Reform, who have been ingeniously recruiting old people through the use and relentless advertisement of pub quizzes
Britain’s Reform UK party does not exist. It’s fake. Made up. A bogeyman to scare Tory MPs and make them go to bed on time economist.com/britain/2024/0…