Our new study is now published @Nature's @SciReports . 🎮
Among international students in Georgia, weekly gaming duration, burnout & gender were independently associated with IGD symptom severity.
#Gaming#MentalHealth#Research https://t.co/htaW4Ky80R
Blacked-out car windows are prohibited in Georgia; only government vehicles are permitted to have them. Georgian activists documented vehicles with blacked-out windows accompanying fuel trucks headed toward Abkhazia.
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I asked a random question to my Facebook friends: how would they estimate the contribution of call centers to Georgia’s economy? The answer was around 10%.
We know this is a global problem, targeting many pensioners in wealthy countries.
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In 2002, the Liberty Institute was attacked by an organized mob. Everyone in the office was assaulted, including myself. The use of violent groups, such as the one established by MMA fighter Kartvelishvili, is not a new phenomenon in Georgian politics.
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Giorgi Akhobadze, a doctor who was vindicated in a drug-related case after the court confirmed that police had planted drugs in his clothing to justify his arrest, has now been sentenced to 25 days' imprisonment for criticizing the police.
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To understand the scale of the stupidity of the decision Miladze vs Georgia by the UCHR, they keep citing this case and throwing people into the jail. Not taking context into account is highly irresponsible. @EUinGeorgia
Giorgi Akhobadze, who was framed with planted drugs during the 2024 #GeorgiaProtests and spent nine months in prison before being acquitted, has today been sentenced to 25 days in detention over a Facebook post.
During those nine months behind bars, his mother, whom he was the sole caregiver for, passed away.
It is reported that companies involved in crypto exchange in Georgia + Kulevi Oil Terminal have been sanctioned by EU. Big step in weakening of Ivanishvili's cartel
The anti-American Georgian Dream regime again escalates its attack on freedom of expression! I call for the immediate release of Vakho Sanaia and all political prisoners. All options are on the table!
Journalist Vakho Sanaia was arrested over a Facebook post. The arrest was carried out in front of cameras, with handcuffs. Was this intended to instill fear? I believe the answer is obvious.
Decision N4/4998-26, issued by Judge Chagunava of the Tbilisi City Court and dated 13.05.26, illustrates how domestic courts may instrumentalize the European Court of Human Rights' judgment in Miladze v. Georgia. (The decision was discovered by lawyer Mikheil Zakareishvili.)
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Zurab japaridze, leader of the Girchi party, yesterday wrote that he is ready to go to jail and does not consider option of exile. There is an expectation that by the end of August all key political leaders will either be in jail or in exile.
OSCE PA “Calls on OSCE participating States and the international community to:
b. withhold recognition of any election results in Georgia that have not been certified as free, fair and democratic by credible international and domestic observation missions;”
Full text here: https://t.co/kJwxaSd5XR
Georgia resolution starts from page 75.
And analysis on Georgia below in @CivilGe post.
Zura Japaridze (Girchi) says that politically motivated investigations against opposition leaders will be completed by the end of the month and opposition leaders will either be imprisoned or forced into exile in retaliation for the sanctions imposed on Ivanishvili.
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"If you do not want to die, your hunger strike is not convincing" - says GD supporter, former Europe Foundation staff member, Zaal Anjaparidze.
And he is not the only GD talking head who tries to normalize torture, savagery, cruelty and corruption.
Huge victory for Georgia 🇬🇪 The European Court of Human Rights has found Russia responsible for the torture and killing of Georgian POWs during the 2008 war, including National Hero Giorgi Antsukhelidze. 1/
The Iranian Ambassador in Georgia — who has publicly threatened the country with internal instability — has endorsed the criminal investigation launched following our Hudson Institute report which I co-authored with Luke Coffey - says Giorgi Kandelaki
https://t.co/jwvcAWOELW
Ukraine's war is a war against Russian imperialism. Will it define Europe? It already is. Perhaps it's time to abandon the old East-West divide and start speaking instead of a post-imperial Europe - one shaped by shared political values?
Nonviolent campaigns do not work - claim critics. Think of fundamentals. Nonviolent campaigns were successful within unified political societies, where major agreements are shared across political and social actors.
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