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My 23 y/o daughter Ana fighting for our freedom, for our tomorrow in Tbilisi against the malevolent government. I dare anyone to fight her and her generation!
#Georgia #Europe #NoRussianLaw
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David Magradze
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David Magradze
@magradze
Expert in the former Soviet Union politics. Former Program Director at Eurasia Division at @IRIglobal. All tweets are personal and not always endorsements.
Katılım Ağustos 2009
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@True_Georgian Sure. We should move ahead IF and WHEN we learn on mistakes. However, being true to ourselves, we rarely do. That’s why we are reminded about mistakes.
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@magradze I am speaking about the current situation and the scope of action available to both society and the opposition. We need to learn from past mistakes, but is constantly pointing them out really more productive?!
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I would agree, if the "Georgian Dream" regime in Georgia didn't:
1. decide which parties are allowed to take part in parliamentary elections;
2. stand on the verge of banning pro-European parties;
3. drive out a large share of its most strongly opposition-minded citizens by making life here unsustainable;
4. deny hundreds of thousands of Georgian emigrants the right to vote;
5. leave the opposition without even basic financial resources;
Along with many other factors that make Hungary and Georgia fundamentally different cases.
A politically engaged, opposition-minded public is already putting considerable pressure on the existing opposition.
Yes, the Georgian opposition should take Hungary's experience into account and adopt whatever is useful and relevant from it.
Civil society, together with the opposition, is working to find a way forward and develop a strategy for action, let's see what comes of it.
However, criticism that is aimed at dragging the target down rather than improving it, something many "experts" engage in today, is neither fair nor strategically sound.
Laura Thornton@LauraLThornton
@terjehelland @MakaB__ @PM_Kobakhidze @GeorgianDream41 Well put! I hope the Georgian opposition learns a thing or two from Hungary. That it is indeed possible to win an election in a completely unfair and rigged environment if you are united and work hard enough to win over people. Boycotting elections and bickering doesn’t help
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@True_Georgian 2/ …there is not excuse for lack of unity, hard work, and disregard of basic campaign work. Let alone the stupid boycott and idiotic obsession with GD’s “legitimacy”. Let’s stop shameful whining and telling Hungarians that Georgian case is much harder, and we are special case.
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David Magradze retweetledi
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has just called to congratulate us on our victory.
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Good call
OC Media@OCMediaorg
Moldovan Parliamentary Speaker Igor Grosu, of the ruling Party of Action and Solidarity (PAS), said members of his party had declined an invitation from Georgian Dream to visit Tbilisi, citing poor relations between the two governments. oc-media.org/moldovas-rulin…
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@officer_Lew As IT, I wouldn’t have said “false alarm.”
I would’ve just validated that it’s currently working and asked him to walk me through what he did when the issue occurred. If I still couldn’t see the problem, I’d check the settings and let him know everything looks good.
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WATCH🚨: IT guy gets called in to handle a courtroom tech glitch and saves the day… just for the judge to flip on him and threaten his livelihood. Power trip much? 👀
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Political Battle For #Armenia's Future Intensifies Ahead Of June Elections by @LauraLThornton cacianalyst.org/publications/a…
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I’ve had lots of issues with OSCE over the years, particularly their election observation work. And this is precisely why. Today high quality election observation is needed more than ever (elimination of USAID) and we need a credible, respected, independent OSCE.
John O’Brennan@JohnOBrennan2
What on earth is the @OSCE doing putting a former Putin employee in charge of the Hungarian election monitoring mission? Any why are there ANY Russians with past links to Putin working at OSCE? theguardian.com/world/2026/mar…
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David Magradze retweetledi
There is time ahead of the June election to fortify Armenian defenses against Russia and its anti-democratic proxies. International support is needed.
justsecurity.org/133899/armenia…
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@LauraLThornton: Facing Russian Hybrid Threats in Advance of Elections, #Armenia Struggles to Maintain Pro-U.S. and EU Path at justsecurity.org/133899/armenia…
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@LauraLThornton @Nataly161187 @LauraLThornton please don’t waste your time responding to DG trolls. There are photos, public statements, GD’s silence to Iran’s whitewashing of history of atrocities and dithyrambs to Iran’s brutal regime. You can present all the facts and they will still deny. Ignore them!
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Every day, @GovernmentGeo confirms everyone's worst criticisms of it. Friends of Georgia like myself get lambasted by the regime for suggesting that Georgia is anti-American and is aligning itself with autocratic regimes like Iran... And just like that they prove me right.
Protest 24@protest_24
”Georgian Dream” party is funded by Iranian oil. According to a @IdeaCivic report, Iranian companies operate in Georgia, and some of them cooperate with state institutions. The report also states that 8 companies involved in importing Iranian oil are linked to donors of the ruling party, and 3 of these companies have won state tenders. One example is Emes Motors LLC. The company is described in the report as an active beneficiary of simplified procurements. Between 2012 and 2024, various state agencies purchased products worth GEL 224,712 from it. According to the report, in 2021 Emes Motors won a state tender worth GEL 20,450, and in the same year the company’s shareholder, Akaki Gurjidze, donated GEL 20,000 to Georgian Dream. The report also highlights that other individuals linked to the company are donors to Georgian Dream as well.
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@AtlanticCouncil How Moscow manufactured the myth of Putin’s inevitable victory. w/ ruslan stefanchuk Speaker of 🇺🇦 @ua_parliament youtube.com/live/MNdSW_iNy…
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@Mikiashvili_M GD obviously cares. But obsessing about GD’s legitimacy is a single most damaging wound that opposition inflicted upon itself. I would argue, that it’s even bigger than failure to unite. Absolutely pointless waste of energy and focus.
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A critic in Georgia: “The Georgian Dream
doesn’t care about legitimacy.”
Meanwhile the Georgian Dream: “We should consider jailing everyone who calls us illegitimate!”
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@Diplo_Peter @Mikiashvili_M Herr Fischer, thank you for not quitting on us. Your continued work is a proof of benefits of work and perseverance rather than boycotting and quitting.
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I tweeted this photo. Imedi and Rustavi 2 saw it and are running a campaign about a "secret" meaning. Repeat: I tweeted this photo. Get it? #disinformation
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Pleased to meet young Georgians uniting in @GeoYouthUnion for an engaging discussion on current affairs.
💫 God bless the Youth 💫
They will create our future.
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⚠️ 🇺🇸 @JeffreySachs says he cannot make sense of Europe’s current leadership, openly mocking figures like Kaja Kallas and Ursula von der Leyen as intellectually unserious. 👉 He warns this incompetence is driving Europe deeper into war instead of toward negotiations‼️
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This is an unfair comparison! WW2 Soviet push should be counted from Stalingrad, starting February 2, 1943, the day Paulus surrendered. That makes only 826 days of the push in WW2 vs today's 1419 (as of Jan 13) and counting.
826 vs 1419!
Слава Україні!
დიდება უკრაინას!
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David Magradze retweetledi
🇮🇷🇬🇪Over the past two years, Georgia’s ruling party Georgian Dream has quietly deepened ties with Iran. Not rhetorically. Practically. Through trade, business access, and political signaling that matters far more than speeches.
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