Robin Forestier-Walker

TV news, journalism, current affairs and docs from the Caucasus and beyond.

[Nana Sajaia @NanaSajaia]

🚨🇬🇪
This is my friend - Beka Korshia, one of Georgia’s brightest minds, an exceptionally talented television host, who has exposed government’s corruption schemes for years.
He was reportedly arrested in Tbilisi tonight. His whereabouts and condition unknown.

@CPJ_Eurasia

[Robin Forestier-Walker @robinfwalker]

Georgia. "What is plainly alive and flourishing is a sense not simply of outrage, but of hope" excellent take here👇 https://t.co/FFdn4GbLQe

[Robin Forestier-Walker @robinfwalker]

@tortoise I think my take is broadly on point. Let’s also remind ourselves how the ruling party GD’s founder Ivanishvili’s money is key and for that… just hear it from him https://t.co/Cht0ln6qbE

[Anna Gvarishvili @AnnaGvarishvili]

🚨 Just in: Ivanishvili states that his and his regime’s recent anti-Western rhetoric is all about his money.

“I’m doing this because of my money.” 1/

[Robin Forestier-Walker @robinfwalker]

When Georgia’s prime minister denies his own statement suspending EU accession negotiations, and follows a Russian intelligence report script that foreign agents are organising the riots, one is reminded of Pomerantsev’s Nothing is True and Everything is Possible.

[Tortoise @tortoise]

Protesters confronted riot police in Georgia and rallied across the country for a fourth straight night last night following the Russia-leaning government’s announcement that it was suspending talks on EU membership.

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Read more: https://t.co/BrLg0wZ4Rg

[Robin Forestier-Walker @robinfwalker]

@alscriv Agreed there are many. But is the polarisation divide bridgeable?

[Robin Forestier-Walker @robinfwalker]

@nana_tsinadze Not in this video. Most likely this guy https://t.co/1K1AzjWypO

[Formula NEWS | English @FormulaGe]

A beaten protestor with bloodied face is seen as Police in black clothing assault another peaceful protestor lying on the ground outside the Rustaveli theatre. For the second night in a row the Georgian Dream government has cracked down on peeacful protest against aborting Georgia’s EU accession.

[Robin Forestier-Walker @robinfwalker]

@MultimediaJonny @bbc5live Sorry for just seeing this happy to chat in future

[Robin Forestier-Walker @robinfwalker]

In which the editor coined ‘Bidniz’ to describe Georgian oligarch Bidzina Ivanishvili’s financial motives for control of his country. As in Bidniz, not pleasure.

[Tortoise @tortoise]

Georgians want to join the EU, but a pliant government is dragging their country back into Russia’s orbit.

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Read more: https://t.co/HsRDKfeLFO

[Robin Forestier-Walker @robinfwalker]

Sorry this was HarrisonX pollsters I think

[Robin Forestier-Walker @robinfwalker]

Exit pollster by reputable Edison says Georgians voted for change with young female voters leading the rejection of governing GD party. Central
election prelims to come.

[Robin Forestier-Walker @robinfwalker]

This is another troubling development for freedom of the press in Georgia. Stephan is a Swiss national, and worked with me earlier this year to document the mass protests against the govt's law on foreign agents.

[Stephan Goss @GossStephan]

I tried to enter Georgia (the country, not the state) to photograph the election. I’m an @IFJGlobal accredited journalist. On arrival my passport had clearly been flagged. They took it, I waited for 1.5h and then got paperwork saying I was denied entry and was being deported.

[Robin Forestier-Walker @robinfwalker]

To understand what's at stake in 🇬🇪 Georgia's pivotal election watch my documentary "Georgians: Between European Dream & Russia". It reflects a new generation's fight for freedom while others remain gripped by state and Kremlin propaganda https://t.co/gMofbWkuui

[Robin Forestier-Walker @robinfwalker]

@IdeaCivic hi can you share the full report? I couldn't open it here just first 4 pages shown

[Robin Forestier-Walker @robinfwalker]

@HansGutbrod @SandroG991 So the AI models are working well in Georgian language?

[Robin Forestier-Walker @robinfwalker]

Timely piece that doesn’t make for easy reading about the way the wind is blowing in Georgia. And about how the West has wasted money trying to help its government.

[will neal (@willneal.bsky.social) @willneal93]

NEW: Out today with @newlinesmag, my investigation into Western support for a #GeorgianDream comms unit using troll accounts to attack critics and spread ‘pro-Russian’ disinformation. A 🧵on key findings… 1/11

https://t.co/MVaJi0ttnD

#GeorgiaProtests
#NoToRussianLaw
#Tbilisi

[Robin Forestier-Walker @robinfwalker]

@WeTransfer when I hit the contact support button I get a friendly but not so intelligent bot that doesn't give me the option to submit a ticket at all. I don't see where one can do that.

[Robin Forestier-Walker @robinfwalker]

@WeTransfer we need to talk about your user experience for file sharing. I've got a documentary project and I'm uploading a lot of gigabytes. Great, stable product, terrible interface.

[Robin Forestier-Walker @robinfwalker]

@sopjap @ErnestAReid @rochowanski My credentials are not the issue. You have some valid insights into the NGO ecosystem. But by depicting the protests as collective psychosis “a public square…swept up in lies, hysteria, and manipulation” is a denial of the protesters’ agency.

[Robin Forestier-Walker @robinfwalker]

@ErnestAReid @rochowanski @sopjap Not the ultimate appraiser lord no! But, 10 years in Georgia reporting and talking to people from across the political spectrum. Anyway, just come over and spend time with these people and see for yourself.