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Apr 15, 2024 • 12 tweets • 5 min read • Read on X
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yesterday at the #Tbilisi Art Fair -- ran into various friends, and saw some things I really liked.
Here the Hive, where various artists could showcase their work. 1/ Image
here "Kobi", George Kobiashvili, with strong symbolism, and lots of detail, and a v expressive rendering of the figures. 2/
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Maya Baratashvili, also fair young artist, born 1984, this already sold, "Being Liza", I found this evocative, the overall vibe. 3/ Image
Sandro Antadze's paintings you see in a fair amount of places (I think also in Cafe Gallery), always a bit quirky, here an entire wall of them. 4/ Image
the Tbilisi Public Art Fund, with some contested pieces recently (the Saarbrücken Square statue), but overall a v good idea, also here. 5/
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Tedo Rekhviashvili had the most engaged gallery staff, who drew attention to detail in his paintings, and explained some of the symbolism that I otherwise would not have caught. He has an exhibition at Silk Factory at the moment also. 6/
instagram.com/tedo_rekhviash…
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some non-Georgian artists -- here Guan Yu, who had striking drawings on his migration story, Istanbul, Georgia, Central America and then across Rio Grande to US, incl arrest and detention. 7/
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nice to see some art from #Azerbaijan -- by Museib Amirov.
I do not know background of artist, but liked these pieces, did remind me of #Absheron (whether rightly or wrongly, idk). 8/ Image
often my favorite, Gela Patiashvili or #GuelaPatiachvili w vibrant hues, playful and dogs all over, "La Haute Société" 2020, an explosion of color. #art #dogs 9/ Image
last bit - drew a lot of attention, Giorgi Manjgaladze, intricate assembly of bamboo, big beautiful pattern w lots of substories, hieroglyphs, really a striking and large piece. (Indicating some success, priced at $26k, but also likely months of work.) You could spend hours.

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Very glad I went. (Yep, politics also a conversation, but this was a great art event & well done, organizers!)
Now over, but worth putting this on your calendar for next year. tbilisiartfair.art
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Feb 2
if you follow #Georgia, you have heard about the beatings in especially designated mini-vans -- not in the heat of an arrest or maybe subduing, but afterwards, deliberate & systematic.

And here you can see this for yourself, as it happened this evening by Tbilisi Mall. In four parts.

Here you see just after arrest. 1/
On next video, you need to look closely -- you will see the man in the van thumping someone, it's a clear hitting motion.

It even seems you can hear it. Almost all of these riot police wear tactical gloves, i.e. ones with hardened knuckles.

In this context, these gloves are not for protection, but to inflict injury.
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This is about 60 seconds later, at 19:08, you see six (!) men leaving the van, after they have been busy inside -- and if you look closely, you see the detainee in green anorak still holding his hands up, in a protective motion.

To anyone looking, it's clear what has been happening here: subdued detainees, sitting, beaten by multiple men. This fits exactly with the reports. 3/ @dolidze_anna @KShoshiashvili @terjehelland
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Oct 27, 2024
A tiny clique in charge of the ruling party has stolen Georgia's European future. They stole that European future in good part by bribery, intimidation, direct violence, and some manipulation of the voting process.
The tiny clique also took that future away by overwhelming many voters with their dystopian vision of the world -- a vision that has nothing to do with Europe.

Where the vote was comparatively free and fair, in parts of Tbilisi's capital, the opposition parties clearly won. 1/n
The evening of the vote, we could see two starkly contrasting realities -- two exit polls, sponsored by the opposition, that put the opposition parties clearly ahead. While I am cautious/skeptical about exit polls, these polls closely tallied each other.

You can of course believe that these efforts coordinated to represent a manipulated reality. I tend to believe that overall they likely represent the actual will of the people. 2/Image
there are several additional items re the plausibility of these exit polls.
1. Edison in the past seems to have gotten GD results fairly aligned. This chart is doing rounds in Georgia right now, showing actual GD results (yellowish) and Edison exit poll (blue). It is not to scale, but you see the big discrepancy is *now*. I quickly checked this also, and found similar results, see the screenshot.

2/ Edison tanked UNM in comparison to C4C, even though they are typically assumed to be funded by one of UNM's main donor.Image
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Aug 4, 2024
The implementation rules of so-called transparency law in #Georgia have been released – I previously called it a “repress anyone you want law.” That is what it is.

(Let's not forget all the shills who misrepresented the law, too.) 1/freiheit.org/south-caucasus…
Organizations have to submit declarations this summer. The requirements are retroactive (!), reporting for 2023.

The reporting is *transparently* designed to overwhelm organizations. The declaration Excel form has twelve (yes: 12) worksheets.
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On income, orgs will have to submit details that in the past you were never asked to keep.

On your donors, you need to submit income and all material benefit. You got a bit of furniture donated? Technically, that is material benefit. 3/ Image
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May 10, 2024
what goes on in #Georgia right now is best described as a coup: "an unlawful seizure of power", in this case by a small clique under direct instructions from BI who in his paranoia has become a kind of Macbeth of the Caucasus.
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Constitutional order is sidelined to follow paranoid ravings and on April 29 we heard Macbeth in Tbilisi having his go at the ghost of Banquo, sitting in the empty chair. (BI's obsession is the spectre of Credit Suisse as global war party.) 2/ read:
As Stephen Jones put it, "In his April 29 speech before a crowd of state employees and citizens bussed in from Georgian provinces, Bidzina Ivanishvili [...], declared war against the Georgian people." 3/ eurasianet.org/perspectives-i…
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May 7, 2024
one good person wrote he shared recent Jacobin article on the NGO law bc he found it refreshing & "offering a different perspective". Draws lots of Likes and Retweets.

If you don't know much else about #Georgia, you will read about "hyper-political NGOs". 1/ Image
...and this will be a dominant feature stuck in your mind.
Yes, if you are a corrupt regime that has been massively robbing from people of Georgia, those who even merely *highlight* that fact are "partisan" & "hyper-political", and you will seek to eliminate them.

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you see just one such listing of the public allegations.
Let those numbers sink in: 30+ MPs, 30 ministers & deputies, 13 judges -- and that is what is known!
This is the good work of @Transparency_GE -- which the government is seeking to snuff out. 3/
transparency.ge/en/blog/allege…
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Apr 26, 2024
when the GD gov claims that the non-profit sector in #Georgia is particularly non-transparent, it has not provided *a shred* of evidence.

Back in 2016, we had actually looked at 150+ think tanks around the world -- and found that Georgia had among the most transparent... 1/
sectors of all the countries we looked at.
There was zero politics to the claim at the time, there was just genuine reason to be proud, as @Transparency_GE @EPRC_Georgia @IDFIGeorgia had been real leaders (unprompted) when we first looked at them. 2/ @ISET_PI @PMCGofficial Image
There were some structural reasons for this -- Georgia was an enthusiastic member of @opengovpart from 2011. @g_kldiashvili from IDFI had led a (then) one-man insurgency, very successfully, for more open archives from mid-2000s (hating UNM, incidentally). 3/ @GilbreathDustin
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