Giorgi Kepuladze

Founder/Chairman of the Board at Society and Banks (NGO). Economic Observer

[England @England]

Ready for Argentina! 👊

[Giorgi Kepuladze @giokepo]

როგორ ფიქრობ, უნდა არსებობდეს თუ არა მინიმალური ხელფასი? 💰 https://t.co/H968cUL0aS via @YouTube

[Rikard Jozwiak @RikardJozwiak]

this is THE correct 🇪🇺letter sent to 🇬🇪 on potential visa lib suspension. It mentions the August deadline. The one provided to 🇬🇪 media outlets was just a draft

[Serving Georgia @ServingG32005]

🇬🇪 Welcome to The Georgian Diaries — your insight into Georgia’s fight for democracy with @mariamgegu

Here’s your latest update on what’s happening in Georgia!

#GeorgiaProtests

@JosepBorrellF @OliverVarhelyi @kajakallas @EP_President @SecRubio @SecBlinken @David_Cameron @aliciakearns @MartaKosEU @RepJoeWilson

[Giorgi Kepuladze @giokepo]

გადასახადები საქართველოში
https://t.co/Df03V9nYWF

[Tabula Media @Tabula_Media]

🚨 Georgia's Ivanishvili regime has recently launched a barrage of attacks on the Trump administration – even comparing him to President Biden and claiming he's similarly controlled by the 'Deep State'

Over the past two days, the Ivanishvili regime and its proxies have begun shifting their narrative regarding the Trump administration

🧵(1/6) Here is a thread of several statements made by the ruling Georgian Dream representatives, GD proxies, and government-affiliated figures that show the shift in the government’s narrative regarding Trump and demonstrate the emerging claim that the 'Deep State' persists through Trump’s administration👇

[Alex Raufoglu @ralexdc]

JUST NOW! U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee passes bipartisan bill to hold Georgia's "russian dream" officials accountable after assault on Georgian democracy, violence against protestors

S.868 –the “MEGOBARI Act" just passed the committee vote unamended

[Alex Raufoglu @ralexdc]

THIS!!! Georgians call on the Trump admin to sanction the hell out of IRGC-sympatizer 'russian dream' clowns 👇
#StandWithGeorgianPEOPLE

[Civil.ge @CivilGe]

A giant United States flag was displayed and U.S., Georgian national anthems were played as MEGOBARI Act march reached parliament. Day 115 of #GeorgiaProtests
🎥 Nini Gabritchidze/Civil.ge

[Protest 24 @protest_24]

For contrast:
First photo: Georgians, with the Megobari Act, demanding protection from Ivanishvili’s authoritarianism from their ally, #America.

Second photo: Ivanishvili’s PM Irakli Kobakhidze standing next to Hamas’ leader at the inauguration of Iran’s new president, where chants of “Death to America” were heard.
#GeorgiaProtests

[Katie Shoshiashvili @KShoshiashvili]

Tbilisi is flooded with Georgian and American flags as a symbol of a long time friendship between the two nations as Georgians rally in support of the MEGOBARI Act, which is set to be considered in five days in @SenateForeign @SFRCdems. Video: @Publika_ge

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

I would like to reiterate Ukraine’s commitment to peace.

None of us wants an endless war. Ukraine is ready to come to the negotiating table as soon as possible to bring lasting peace closer. Nobody wants peace more than Ukrainians. My team and I stand ready to work under President Trump’s strong leadership to get a peace that lasts.

We are ready to work fast to end the war, and the first stages could be the release of prisoners and truce in the sky — ban on missiles, long-ranged drones, bombs on energy and other civilian infrastructure — and truce in the sea immediately, if Russia will do the same. Then we want to move very fast through all next stages and to work with the US to agree a strong final deal.

We do really value how much America has done to help Ukraine maintain its sovereignty and independence. And we remember the moment when things changed when President Trump provided Ukraine with Javelins. We are grateful for this.

Our meeting in Washington, at the White House on Friday, did not go the way it was supposed to be. It is regrettable that it happened this way. It is time to make things right. We would like future cooperation and communication to be constructive.

Regarding the agreement on minerals and security, Ukraine is ready to sign it in any time and in any convenient format. We see this agreement as a step toward greater security and solid security guarantees, and I truly hope it will work effectively.

[Saturday Night Live @nbcsnl]

Zelenskyy’s White House meeting with Trump and Vance

[Alex Raufoglu @ralexdc]

NEW!! “Georgian Nightmare Non-Recognition Act’ (H.R.-243), the bill that prohibits the U.S. from recognizing ivanishvili regime, now has FOUR new co-sponsors

@RepLloydDoggett 👏
@RepMikeLawler 👏
@RepMikeTurner👏
@repcleaver 👏

Tks for #StandingWithGeorgianPeople!

[Kaja Kallas @kajakallas]

The brutal crackdown on peaceful protesters, journalists and politicians tonight in Tbilisi is unacceptable.

Georgia falls short of any expectation from a candidate country.

The EU stands with the people of Georgia in their fight for freedom and democracy.

[Transparency Int'l GE @Transparency_GE]

Fifteen members of the UK House of Commons have called on the executive branch to impose sanctions on Bidzina Ivanishvili.

If the UK sanctions Bidzina Ivanishvili and his family members, nearly the entire business empire of the Ivanishvili family would be affected by financial sanctions, as these companies are ultimately registered in the UK’s territories (the British Virgin Islands and the Cayman Islands).

The sanctions would encompass over 95 Georgian companies owned by the Ivanishvili family, including:
❌ Cartu Bank
❌Cartu Foundation
❌Galleria Tbilisi
❌Axis Towers
❌Heidelberg Cement, co-owned with Irakli Rukhadze, the proprietor of TV Imedi, the primary propaganda outlet of the "Georgian Dream" party.
❌Georgian Tourism Development Fund, which owns Ivanishvili’s hotels: Paragraph in Tbilisi, Shekvetili, and Abastumani, among others.
❌Poti Free Industrial Zone, co-owned with Vano Chkhartishvili.
❌Russian company LLC Aqua Space, which manages the Ivanishvili family’s residences in Moscow.

The United Kingdom operates under a stringent sanctions regime. Financial sanctions imposed by the UK involve freezing assets and suspending access to financial services, resources, and markets.

The UK includes so-called offshore territories such as the British Virgin Islands and the Cayman Islands, where Bidzina Ivanishvili’s companies are registered. Under UK legislation, sanctions imposed by the UK extend to these offshore territories.

It is worth noting that the sanctions are justified by reasons including the halting of Georgia’s EU integration process, excessive use of force against peaceful protesters, undermining democracy, facilitating Russian influence in Georgia, and the U.S. sanctions already imposed on Bidzina Ivanishvili.

[Giorgi Agirbaia @AgirbaiaGiorgi]

#GeorgiaProtests 40 days in the wind or rain, on New Year's Day and Christmas eve 💫 thousands of 🇬🇪's protest For freedom & Democracy, against injustice & repressions.
Special new Georgian civil society forming these days in the streets✊️ #MerryChristmas #Tbilisi 💫

[Katie Shoshiashvili @KShoshiashvili]

🇬🇪🇪🇺 Welcome to Georgia, a nation of freedom-loving and fighter people who have protested nonstop for 40+ days in freezing cold—a fight that has continued for over five years, with months of demonstrations each year, to defend democracy, security, and their European future. Proud of their Caucasus Mountains heritage, Georgians even protest while skiing. Video: https://t.co/yHKtOAlDdl

[Rihards Kols @RihardsKols]

Together with the International Friends of Georgia, we call on all free governments to demand free and fair elections in Georgia and reject the illegitimate Ivanishvili regime. We call for unified sanctions on Ivanishvili's regime and Georgian Dream officials and propagandists undermining Georgian democracy and sovereignty.

Signed:
🇺🇸 @RepJoeWilson
🇺🇸 @RepRichHudson
🇪🇺🇵🇱 @MichalSzczerba
🇪🇪 @EerikNKross
🇬🇧 @TomTugendhat
🇵🇱 @radekfogiel
🇪🇪 @UrmasReinsalu
🇺🇸 @RepCohen
🇺🇸 @MarcVeasey
🇱🇻 @irma_kalnina
🇩🇪 @MiRo_SPD
🇪🇪 @markomihkelson
🇸🇪 @gustafgothberg
🇮🇹 @LiaQuartapelle
🇱🇹 @ZygisPavilionis
🇪🇺🇩🇪 @gahler_michael
🇪🇺🇦🇹 @HBrandstaetter
🇨🇿 @PavelFischer
🇪🇺🇵🇱 @MicWawrykiewicz
🇵🇱 @pomaska
🇪🇺🇳🇱 @RLanschot
🇪🇺🇱🇹 @RJukneviciene
🇪🇺🇱🇻 @RihardsKols
🇺🇦 @ChairOlek
🇪🇺🇱🇹 Dainius Žalimas
🇪🇺🇫🇮 @SebastianTyne
🇪🇺🇫🇷 @NathalieLoiseau
🇮🇹 Filippo Sensi
🇩🇪 @ulrichlechte
🇫🇷 @guetta_en
🇱🇹 @GLandsbergis
🇺🇸 @ikelly731
🇺🇸 Randy Scheunemann
🇺🇸 Kenneth Yalowitz
🇺🇸 @LauraLThornton
🇺🇦 @HopkoHanna
🇺🇸 David J. Kramer
🇩🇪 @ViolavonCramon
🇦🇹 @rumeliobserver
🇺🇸 @general_ben
🇺🇸 Evelyn Farkas
🇬🇧 @alexhallhall
🇺🇸 @GaryJSchmitt1

[Alex Raufoglu @ralexdc]

Democratic backsliding in Georgia ‘deeply concerning,” Blinken says…

“And not just democratic backsliding, but a retreat away from the aspirations of the overwhelming majority of the Georgia people, the aspiration to build a future that is closer and closer to Europe.”