Today the OSCE #MoscowMechanism report “to assess Georgia’s implementation of its OSCE commitments, with a particular focus on developments since spring 2024” was presented to the OSCE Permanent Council.
Read the full report on 🇬🇪 #Georgia: https://t.co/bo1awHWeqp
We are ready for real compromises. But not compromises at the cost of our independence and sovereignty. We are ready to speak about compromises with the United States. But not to get ultimatums from the Russians again and again. They are the aggressor. Everybody has recognized it. It hasn’t changed. Many countries that have been mediators or tried to be mediators from the very beginning of this war, especially in the Middle East and Asia, as well as other countries, they all recognize that Russia is the aggressor.
That's why it is already our compromise that we are speaking with the aggressor about compromises. “Stay where we stay” – this is a big compromise. They took almost 20% of our territory. And we are ready to speak about peace at this moment, on the basis of “Stay where we stay”. This is a big compromise.
What does Russia offer us as a compromise? What are they ready to do? They said, “We are ready not to occupy your other regions”. But it is terrorism. Even that language, it is terrorism. “I’m ready not to kill you – give us everything”. What does it mean? It's not a compromise. This is an ultimatum. That's why I said: We are ready for compromises that respect Ukrainian sovereignty and territorial integrity, our army, our people, and our children. But we are not ready for ultimatums.
From my conversation with Kyodo News (3/3)
Ultimately, history punishes those who stand aside. In many respects, the wars of the 20th century were the result of the indifference of those in power in the 19th century.
Russia’s war against Ukraine and its other wars – against Moldova, Chechnya, and Georgia – are the result of indifference to the truth of our nations, a truth our people feel, and indifference shown by the world’s leading states at the end of the Soviet era, throughout the 1990s, and at the beginning of the 21st century, when they chose to place their bet on Russia – on a so-called “reset” with Russia that, in reality, turned into an “overload” for all of us.
There was so much talk about the protests in Iran – but they drowned in blood. The world has not helped enough the Iranian people, it has stood aside.
What will Iran become after this bloodshed? If the regime survives, it sends a clear signal to every bully – kill enough people, and you stay in power.
"One of the reasons they refuse to say what substance was mixed into that water is that it doesn’t even matter what they name.
That substance, combined with the solvent they already confirmed (which is a toxin on its own), combined with the so-called pepper spray, combined with the suffocating gas they used on us, when you are soaked in it from head to toe, when it gets into your eyes, nose, ears, mouth (not to mention the skin), when this goes on for hours, repeated for several nights, across two seasons of the year (spring to autumn), even if it were carrot juice, it would still be harmful.
It is impossible for any substance classified under that category (UN349, I believe) to be legally used in such a form and with such intensity.
Another reason they panicked is that the use of a chemical agent against their own population morally legitimizes many forms of resistance against such a regime, forms that, under normal circumstances, some people might hesitate to support (regardless of whether they’re tactically wise).
For example: is a person justified in tearing down the fence of the presidential residence or setting fire to an empty courthouse at night if their elections were stolen, if their European future was taken from them, and if chemical agents were used against them, their friends, and their family members? That is the issue here.
There is another point, so they don’t fool us with wording.
“Not prohibited” does not mean that it can be used to drench tens of thousands of people with high-pressure streams.
There is probably no law specifically banning the dispersal of protests with gasoline, simply because no one ever imagined something so outrageous. Gasoline is just as much a solvent as the one shown in the BBC film, the same solvent the regime has already admitted using.
Likewise, many everyday products are legally available and even useful when used correctly, but their packaging clearly warns: “Do not ingest,” “Avoid contact with eyes,” “Keep out of reach of children.” This is why “not prohibited” on its own means nothing.
P.S. When you say that the 2008 war was started by the previous government, you are accusing the previous government, this has nothing to do with the country’s legal responsibility or its international image.
But when you say that in 2024 Georgian Dream most likely used chemical agents against Georgian citizens, the harm does not fall on Georgian Dream, it directly accuses the country of a horrific act and damages the country’s image. And that is an act of betrayal.
Rashist logic.
05.12.25"
Zura Girchi Japaridze from Rustavi prison.
The pro-Russian regime has once again launched politically motivated criminal prosecutions against democratic forces, aiming to silence them and remove them from public life.
Our leader Zurab Japaridze was weeks from release, yet they added 7-15 years to keep him jailed.
@shpapuashvili Shalva 🦓 , stop bullshiting.
1. New fair elections!
2. Release all political prisoners!
We won't give our country to Russia's puppet Ivanishvili.
We have just created ImediWatch - an AI tool that tracks and translates Russian propaganda from the infamous TV Imedi channel. Hopefully, this will help fasten the decisions to sanction TV Imedi and other propaganda channels. Link: https://t.co/jdH1D6jqj3
Peaceful protestors have gathered in front of the Parliament Building in Tbilisi, Georgia, to voice their concern over the repressive direction of their country. They have every right to democracy, to freedom of expression and basic human rights.
We are here to support them.
Prime Minister Kobakhidze,
The Georgian future is only for the Georgian people to decide. The same applies to every OSCE participating state. For people to be able to exercise this right, they need freedom of speech and free and fair elections with political alternatives to choose from.
Helsinki Final Act (1975):
✔️[Participating states] commit to promote and encourage the effective exercise of civil, political, economic, social, cultural, and other rights and freedoms for all individuals.
✔️They affirm that these rights and freedoms derive from the inherent dignity of the human person and are essential to the development of free and democratic societies.
In this spirit, as Chair of the OSCE and 50 years since the signing of this document, I invite you, @PM_Kobakhidze, to come to Finland, meet the free press and observe any demonstration of your liking.
PS. Sorry I had to cancel our meeting in Tbilisi because of clashing schedules.