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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 28m

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Eto Buziashvili @buziashvili.bsky.social · 54m

Here, again exactly on Putin's birthday yesterday.

Pravda Publisher Dies After Fall From a Window in Putin’s Moscow

Authorities claimed Vyacheslav Leontyev had a “nervous breakdown” and stumbled out of a window.

www.thedailybeast.com

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Eto Buziashvili @buziashvili.bsky.social · 1d

Russian journalists Anna politkovskaya, Stanislav Markelov, Natalya Estemirova. Grozny 2005. All of them were assassinated.

Photo credit: gulagu[.]net

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Eto Buziashvili @buziashvili.bsky.social · 1d

In the West, journalists receive the Pulitzer award for truth-telling.
In Russia, there is also a 9mm award - a 9mm bullet in the forehead for telling the truth.

Anna Politkovskaya was one of the many journalists that the Kremlin regime assasinated for telling the truth.

Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 1d

OTD in 2006 journalist & activist Anna Politkovskaya was shot dead. Whoever is responsible for having her killed is still at large. And turns 73 today.

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Alexandre Alaphilippe @aa.disinfo.eu · 3d

Important visualization of current air strikes targeting Ukraine.

Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 3d

Massive Russian missile and drone attack on #Ukraine last night. Russia used different types of cruise missiles, Kinzhal missiles and drones on Ukrainian energy infrastructure and civilian objects. Western regions of Ukraine were under the most intense attack.

◾️Lviv and Lviv region: massive attack.

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Eto Buziashvili @buziashvili.bsky.social · 2d

@jospang.bsky.social Jochen, last time we met in Georgia, it still breathed freely. I hope we’ll meet there again soon - in a free Georgia - and talk not about the survival of the information space, but about better practices to strengthen and protect it. I appreciate your support. ❤️

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Benjamin Husstad-Nedberg @factforce.bsky.social · 2d

Important sit rap👇

Remember that #Georgia is on the frontline - like #Ukraine - in the fight against fascist #Russia. Do as Eto says, and raise this in your capitals.

The most likely next targets for Russia's imperial war - before they test NATO - is Georgia and #Moldova.

Eto Buziashvili @buziashvili.bsky.social · 2d

It’s been hard 24h for Georgians. Grave mistakes were made. Yesterday, Georgia lost a battle against Russian takeover - but the fight for freedom &democracy continues. If there’s one thing yst proved, it’s that resistance hasnt disappeared. They tried to bury us. They didn’t know we were seeds. 1/12

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Andreas Oetker-Kast @andreasok.bsky.social · 2d

Good read about what happened in 🇬🇪 in the last 24h …

Eto Buziashvili @buziashvili.bsky.social · 2d

It’s been hard 24h for Georgians. Grave mistakes were made. Yesterday, Georgia lost a battle against Russian takeover - but the fight for freedom &democracy continues. If there’s one thing yst proved, it’s that resistance hasnt disappeared. They tried to bury us. They didn’t know we were seeds. 1/12

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⚫️🐦‍⬛ 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺 @theskyisnotblue.bsky.social · 2d

This thread by @buziashvili.bsky.social is a must-read!👇
🇬🇪🇪🇺 #GeorgiaProtests

Eto Buziashvili @buziashvili.bsky.social · 2d

It’s been hard 24h for Georgians. Grave mistakes were made. Yesterday, Georgia lost a battle against Russian takeover - but the fight for freedom &democracy continues. If there’s one thing yst proved, it’s that resistance hasnt disappeared. They tried to bury us. They didn’t know we were seeds. 1/12

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Eto Buziashvili @buziashvili.bsky.social · 2d

Georgia and Ukraine are now the two main fronts against tyranny. Georgians, like Ukrainians, will never surrender. We know the price of freedom - we have paid it in blood, and we will continue to pay it. Until victory. 12/12

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Eto Buziashvili @buziashvili.bsky.social · 2d

What can you do? Raise Georgia’s name in your capitals, on social media, at conferences, and on international platforms. Check in with your Georgian friends - they are not okay. And check in with your Ukrainian friends too. 11/12

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Eto Buziashvili @buziashvili.bsky.social · 2d

I cannot express how deeply moving it’s been to see especially Ukrainians living through war sending words of encouragement and solidarity. So many people from different countries have been posting online - their messages are heartbreaking and heartening at once. 10/12

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Eto Buziashvili @buziashvili.bsky.social · 2d

Externally, Georgia’s friends and allies have their own homework. Western pressure must intensify - sanctions and isolation of Russia’s proxy government in Georgia are life-and-death matter. 9/12

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Eto Buziashvili @buziashvili.bsky.social · 2d

Two major reboots are needed: 1) Among the opposition’s political elite - they must step aside and let new leaders emerge. 2) In the media space - media driven by donor agendas must be reformed, and new, independent media supported. 8/12

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Eto Buziashvili @buziashvili.bsky.social · 2d

The success of Georgia’s protest is inevitable but only if we understand the formula for it, both internal and external. Internally, the resistance must continue. Georgians have lived from crackdown to crackdown. And they are still standing. People must remember this is a long-term fight. 7/12

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Eto Buziashvili @buziashvili.bsky.social · 2d

"Look at Ukraine. They’ve been fighting the enemy with weapons in hand for four years, and they are not complaining. Because they can’t retreat. If they surrender, they lose everything. If they don’t, they survive." There is no time for despair. We, too, have no way to retreat. 6/12

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Eto Buziashvili @buziashvili.bsky.social · 2d

the regime's long-standing “coup d’état” narrative has now been given a real pretense, and they will absolutely go further in consolidating authoritarianism. And yet, not everything is lost. One social media post that’s gone viral among Georgians today says: 5/12

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Eto Buziashvili @buziashvili.bsky.social · 2d

What followed wasnt a surprise - proxy regime cracked down on once again, and the remaining opposition leaders were arrested. That day created: 1) A wave of depression and defeat - sense to many that neither elections nor revolutions seem to bring change. 2) A new pretext for repression, 4/12

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Eto Buziashvili @buziashvili.bsky.social · 2d

Yesterday, that 11-month peaceful resistance was damaged by an irresponsible political opposition. They prematurely declared a “government change” and made promises everyone knew couldn’t be kept. They gave people false hope that the Russian proxy government would fall that very day. 3/12

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Eto Buziashvili @buziashvili.bsky.social · 2d

For more than 300 days, peaceful protests against Russian takeover and the attempt to cement tyranny have continued. During this time - and long before - I’ve seen ordinary people, though brilliant and brave, of all ages perform an extraordinary act: fight tyranny with willpower & empty hands. 2/12

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Eto Buziashvili @buziashvili.bsky.social · 2d

It’s been hard 24h for Georgians. Grave mistakes were made. Yesterday, Georgia lost a battle against Russian takeover - but the fight for freedom &democracy continues. If there’s one thing yst proved, it’s that resistance hasnt disappeared. They tried to bury us. They didn’t know we were seeds. 1/12

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Molly McKew @mollymckew.bsky.social · 6d

I guess the good news is, we’re done with the farce that telegram was ever a platform for secure comms, now we can admit the whole stunt with protests in Russia and PD getting to cosplay a free speech hero was a giant con by the FSB to convince people to use a comms app they have a back door in

Eto Buziashvili @buziashvili.bsky.social · 6d

Left: Pavel Durov, Russian founder of Telegram, suddenly discovering democracy on the exact day of Romanian elections.

Right: same guy, this time for Moldovan elections. Czech elections are on Friday, so Pavel drop a copypasta draft “coincidentally” a third time and call it a trilogy.

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Alexandre Alaphilippe @aa.disinfo.eu · 6d

"Being stuck" means being under judicial supervision for:
→ Complicity in the organized distribution of child pornography, drug trafficking, organized fraud, and criminal conspiracy for the commission of crimes or offenses.
→ Money laundering of crimes or offenses committed by an organized group.

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Eto Buziashvili @buziashvili.bsky.social · 6d

Just remembered one of my favorite quotes by Garry Kasparov: “I believe in coincidences, but I also believe in the KGB.”

Eto Buziashvili @buziashvili.bsky.social · 6d

Left: Pavel Durov, Russian founder of Telegram, suddenly discovering democracy on the exact day of Romanian elections.

Right: same guy, this time for Moldovan elections. Czech elections are on Friday, so Pavel drop a copypasta draft “coincidentally” a third time and call it a trilogy.

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Eto Buziashvili @buziashvili.bsky.social · 6d

We’re still waiting to hear the full details of what you agreed on with the FSB back then so that Telegram could be relaunched in Russia. 🥱

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