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Marika Mikiashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺
@marikamikiashvili.bsky.social
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Droa Party Foreign Affairs. Lecturer, PhD student. CEE Europe & Central Asia governance, identity, hybrid threats. University of St Andrews alumna. NAFO.
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Marika Mikiashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺 @marikamikiashvili.bsky.social · Aug 30
Georgia has always been Russia's testing ground. From secessionism to embargoes and outright invasion,

the current takeover is actually a step further, it's what Russia aims to do with Ukraine eventually.

Helping Georgians means crushing Russia's playbook for the future.
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Marika Mikiashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺 @marikamikiashvili.bsky.social · 21m
Very grateful to @TVR_MOLDOVA for this opportunity for a long interview about Georgia, where I also congratulate Moldovans with having avoided a similar Russian Trojan horse takeover.
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Marika Mikiashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺 @marikamikiashvili.bsky.social · 1h
"Brussels stands behind the street wars in Tbilisi."

- Georgia's illegitimate Speaker of the Parliament, Shalva Papuashvili.
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Marika Mikiashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺 @marikamikiashvili.bsky.social · 3h
For now just more repressions
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Marika Mikiashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺 @marikamikiashvili.bsky.social · 3h
#FreeGeorgianPoliticalPrisoners
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Marika Mikiashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺 @marikamikiashvili.bsky.social · 1d
I'm so sorry and thanks a lot ❤️‍🩹❤️
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Marika Mikiashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺 @marikamikiashvili.bsky.social · 1d
I think it was my personal technical issue, but it's getting worse in Georgia, of course
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Marika Mikiashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺 @marikamikiashvili.bsky.social · 1d
Friends, I want to apologize for not having posted here during these crucial days for Georgia, which saw rapidly worsening repressions.

I had serious trouble accessing Bluesky :(

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Marika Mikiashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺 @marikamikiashvili.bsky.social · 10d
October 4 is going to be a big political watershed one way or another, and it’s disturbingly full of uncertainty in both how it might unfold as well as its potential outcomes. #GeorgiaProtests
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Marika Mikiashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺 @marikamikiashvili.bsky.social · 10d
UNM politician and Tbilisi City Council member Zviad Kuprava has just been arrested over "calls to overthrow the state authorities." He’s been vocal regarding the October 4 grand rally, and in particular, he called for the disruption of the sham local elections process.
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Marika Mikiashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺 @marikamikiashvili.bsky.social · 11d
JUST IN: the regime has trumped-up an even heavier charge against Gela Khasaia: group violence leading to light damage to health, implying 4-6 years in jail.

Anyone who has seen or spoken to Gela knows how ridiculous this is.

Apparently, he’s been a big trouble for the regime.
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Rusudan Djakeli @rusudandjakeli.bsky.social · 12d
New political prisoner in Georgia: activist Gela Khasaiya of Girchi – More Freedom. On Sept 1, 3 strangers asked him to buy beer, then fought each other. Weeks later, one had a broken arm. Gela never argued, but now faces up to 3 yrs. Another case of pre-Oct 4 repression.
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Marika Mikiashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺 @marikamikiashvili.bsky.social · 11d
There are mounting rumours / half-evidences that the Georgian Dream regime is preparing for something uniquely brutal for the grand October 4 rally.
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Marika Mikiashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺 @marikamikiashvili.bsky.social · 11d
Important.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
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Anna Gvarishvili @annagvarish.bsky.social · 11d
Ivanishvili’s former business partner, Giorgi Bachiashvili’s elderly parents have been sentenced to prison. Prosecutors accuse them of laundering money together with their son — the case is tied to Bachiashvili’s financial dispute with Ivanishvili. 1/2
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Marika Mikiashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺 @marikamikiashvili.bsky.social · 11d
Gela, my friend and my coalition member ❤️
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Anna Gvarishvili @annagvarish.bsky.social · 11d
Gela Khasaia’s letter from prison:
“I’m fine. If the aim was to scare me, the only thing I’m afraid of is losing our country.”
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Anna Gvarishvili @annagvarish.bsky.social · 11d
“More people may end up behind bars than in the previous case,” Kobakhidze threatened Georgians ahead of the October 4 mass protest. “This is our friendly warning,” he added. #GeorgiaProtests
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