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Gocha Gogsadze

@gochag.bsky.social
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Georgian activist. Psychology, IR & security enthusiast. Former lecturer at GIONFE youth summits. Committed to a free, democratic, Euro-Atlantic Georgia. NAFO. x.com/gocha_gogsadze?s=21

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Gocha Gogsadze @gochag.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Before Bucha, there was Abkhazia. On August 14, 1992, Russia 🇷🇺 and Russian-backed forces attacked Georgia 🇬🇪, starting a war that led to the ethnic cleansing and displacement of over 200,000 Georgians and an ongoing occupation — the same imperialist crimes seen in Ukraine today.
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Gocha Gogsadze @gochag.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
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Gocha Gogsadze @gochag.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
17 years ago, Russia launched its war against Georgia, with aggression starting days earlier. Shelling of Georgian 🇬🇪 villages and illegal troop deployments preceded August 7, 2008. The world must not forget how appeasing Russia in Georgia led to war in Ukraine. #WeRemember2008
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Rusudan Djakeli @rusudandjakeli.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Day 197 of daily, nationwide protests in Georgia. Public anger is growing after a court handed down an unjust verdict against a 21-year-old protester.
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Marika Mikiashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺 @marikamikiashvili.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
The regime in Georgia began issuing verdicts for its prisoners of conscience. 21-year-old Mate Devidze just got 4.5 years for “attacking the police.” #terrorinGeorgia
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 04/06/2025
Sanction the Georgian regime
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Gocha Gogsadze @gochag.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
#terrorinGeorgia The pro-russian Georgian Dream regime has just arrested a key opposition figure, Nika Melia — the second major opposition leader now behind bars. It’s a dictatorship in motion, eliminating political opposition. Share and spread the word.
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Gocha Gogsadze @gochag.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Happy Independence Day, Georgia 🇬🇪! Empires and centuries couldn’t break you. You’ll be free from the russian puppet regime too. Day 180 of the #Georgiaprotests.
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Gocha Gogsadze @gochag.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
One year ago on this day, taken by me. We are born to resist 🇬🇪🇪🇺
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Gocha Gogsadze @gochag.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Waiting for the moment Trump’s ‘4D chess’ backfires when China and Russia stop playing along and the board flips on him and the U.S.
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Ministry of Foreign Affairs 🇵🇱 @polandmfa.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
In response to the increasing repressions of the opposition in Georgia, Poland has banned 8 representatives of enforcement authorities responsible for the violence against protesters, from entering its territory. Poland supports the pro-European aspirations of 🇬🇪 society.
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Gocha Gogsadze @gochag.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Meeting with school students to discuss Georgian security & Russian hybrid warfare. Knowing the younger generation, I can say that Russia will never be able to conquer their minds and therefore, our homeland. Georgia will be free.
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Marika Mikiashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺 @marikamikiashvili.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Thank you, Poland!
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Gocha Gogsadze @gochag.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
$169,500 of public money wasted in 3 months by Georgian Dream to boost 7 propaganda facebook pages. Lies over lives, disinformation over development.
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Publika.ge @publikage.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
1/ On the night of April 8–9, 2025, parents of regime prisoners spent the night on Rustaveli Ave, aiming to prevent representatives of GD from decorating the memorial with flowers. Irakli Kobakhidze and other members of GD went to the Cathedral instead of Rustaveli.
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Gocha Gogsadze @gochag.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
These pictures of the heroic Georgian woman Nana Makharadze are more than symbolic. She faced russian aggression on April 9, 1989, and she’s still resisting it today. #GeorgiaProtests #Stoprussia
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Gocha Gogsadze @gochag.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
36 years ago, soviet russia brutally suppressed a protest against its occupation in Tbilisi 🇬🇪, killing 21, including 17 women and the youngest, just 16. We honor those who sacrificed for our freedom. russia’s imperialism will inevitably fall, just like the USSR!
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Gocha Gogsadze @gochag.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
🚨 The pro-Putin Georgian Dream regime tortured a British citizen in prison, now they’re blocking his return to the UK. 🇬🇪🇬🇧 #SanctionGeorgianDream www.express.co.uk/news/world/2...
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'Pro-Putin agents tortured me in prison - now I'm told I can't go home to UK'
EXCLUSIVE: Brit Daniel Travis has revealed he has been put on an effective 'no-fly list' by Georgian officials after being beaten in prison last year.
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Gocha Gogsadze @gochag.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
©️ Tamunia Budaghashvili
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Marika Mikiashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺 @marikamikiashvili.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Day 128. No way that we stop. And they cannot consolidate “painlessly,” without years of instability. You can help us avoid costs that can be avoided in our liberation struggle through sanctions that are tailored to push the regime to schedule free elections. #GeorgiaProtests
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Gocha Gogsadze @gochag.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
The regime is potentially preparing for early parliamentary elections to secure a constitutional majority and may aim to expel Article 78 of the Constitution, which mandates constitutional bodies to take all necessary measures to ensure 🇬🇪’s full integration into EU and NATO. 5/5
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Gocha Gogsadze @gochag.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Observers will be expelled for “standing in the wrong place” — Until now, they could choose the best vantage point to monitor the process. Now, election officials will have the power to restrict their movement and expel them from polling stations if they don’t comply. 4/5
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Gocha Gogsadze @gochag.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Voter identification checks have been restricted — Opposition election commission members and independent observers will no longer be able to verify whether a voter’s personal information matches the data in the official voter list. 3/5
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Gocha Gogsadze @gochag.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
With the new laws, independent observers are now banned from monitoring the verification device at polling station — This means there will be no way to verify who is voting and whose data the power usurpers are using to falsify elections. 2/5
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Gocha Gogsadze @gochag.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Today Georgian Dream has completely dismantled election transparency, de facto rendering the new elections meaningless. 1/5
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Gocha Gogsadze @gochag.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
I told the AI to turn one of the photos of me and my friends from the Georgia protest into a cartoon.
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Marika Mikiashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺 @marikamikiashvili.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
A sixth month of #GeorgiaProtests. As President Zourabichvili pointed out during her tonight’s address, the dictatorship stands on 3 pillars that our partners can help us shake: 1. Financial network of the oligarch; 2. Russian(-style) propaganda; 3. Repressive resources.
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Marika Mikiashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺 @marikamikiashvili.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
At this very moment, it’s getting a little tense in Tbilisi - for the first time in months. Protesters are numerous, angry, and fed up. ALL EYES ON GEORGIA! #GeorgiaProtests
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Gocha Gogsadze @gochag.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
March 31, 1991 – The day Georgia 🇬🇪 chose its future. 99% voted for independence from the Soviet Union, reclaiming the nation’s freedom. The fight for true independence continues.
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Anna Gvarishvili @annagvarish.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Rustaveli Avenue now!
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Anna Gvarishvili @annagvarish.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
🧵Dear Georgia watchers, please help me spread the word about how Ivanishvili’s regime is working to fulfill Putin’s dream by justifying Russia’s 2008 August aggression against Georgia. 1/
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Gocha Gogsadze @gochag.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
A must-read on Russia’s influence operations in Georgia — a case study in modern hybrid warfare. What’s happening there is a warning to all democracies. www.fpri.org/article/2025...
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Russian Influence Operations in Georgia: A Threat to Democracy and Regional Stability - Foreign Policy Research Institute
Russia's influence operations in Georgia represent one of the Black Sea region's most comprehensive hybrid warfare campaigns. The Kremlin has employed
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Gocha Gogsadze @gochag.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Just found out that a wonderful painting from Zelensky’s cabinet with the Kremlin in flames was created by Georgian artist Sandro Antadze. A powerful symbol of two nations, one fight. Slava Ukraini! 🇬🇪🇺🇦
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Gocha Gogsadze @gochag.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
I think, in our dangerous times, the U.S. should not be setting precedents like this. Instead, it should be standing firmly against these abnormal actions. The actions we see from russia today and could see from China tomorrow.
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Gocha Gogsadze @gochag.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
How did we get here, where the United States echoes the same tired excuses as russia? Annexing an independent state is indefensible. Yet when such actions are cloaked in “security concerns,” it mirrors the very rhetoric used by russia to justify its aggression.
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Gocha Gogsadze @gochag.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
In 2008, the toilet army invaded Georgia 🇬🇪, stealing everything in sight, even toilets, with their tanks. We remember.
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Gocha Gogsadze @gochag.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
I want to express my gratitude to Ukrainians 🇺🇦 once again. Kazbeg Tomov, involved in torturing Georgian 🇬🇪 national hero Giorgi Antsukhelidze, just got a one-way ticket to Kobzon’s concert. Brn in hll, 0rc.
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Gocha Gogsadze @gochag.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
MEGOBARI Act solidarity march 🇬🇪🇺🇸 #GeorgiaProtests day 115.
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Gocha Gogsadze @gochag.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
How old would this unjustly imprisoned personal captive of oligarch Bidzina Ivanishvili be? #terrorinGeorgia #GeorgiaProtests
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Gocha Gogsadze @gochag.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Pashynyan’s statement questioning Russia’s role in fabricating the Armenian genocide narrative is a bold step toward uncovering the truth and breaking free from Moscow’s manipulation of history.
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Gocha Gogsadze @gochag.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
16. Because if democracy fails in these countries, the occupation wave of Russia won’t stop at our border. The future may seem grim, but at the end of the day, I believe that truth and justice will prevail!!! Gocha out, keep fighting. 🫳🏼🎤
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Gocha Gogsadze @gochag.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
15. So I call on you to scream out there in the West, not just for us, but for all democracies under threat. Ensure Georgia remains part of the global conversation, and arm Ukraine; Support Georgia, Ukraine, Moldova, Armenia, the Baltics, and others facing similar challenges.
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Gocha Gogsadze @gochag.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
14. In this crazy reality, when the US doesn’t back Ukraine and pushes for defeat, I don’t see why Georgia’s future will be any different from Ukraine’s.
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Gocha Gogsadze @gochag.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
13. This reality doesn’t diminish Georgia’s strength or determination; it simply acknowledges the geopolitical truth—that smaller nations facing aggressive, authoritarian neighbors cannot effectively resist alone.
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Gocha Gogsadze @gochag.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
12. Georgia’s future hangs in the balance. Protests struggle to counter Russia’s external pressures with limited capabilities. Without strong international backing and pressuring Russia, resisting its political influence becomes nearly impossible.
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Gocha Gogsadze @gochag.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
11. Btw what we see today is madness. The US is doing everything to end the war on Russia’s terms, pushing Ukraine toward capitulation. The EU’s slowness shows no signs of waking up in the near future. We are back in the jungle order of the world.
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Gocha Gogsadze @gochag.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
10. GD’s propaganda focused on the West’s ineffectiveness in security. Their political campaign was not about pensions or salary, but war, and it worked, as concerns don’t stop bombs. Instead of acting, the West increased its dependence on Russia and hit reset buttons.
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Gocha Gogsadze @gochag.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
9. The West has struggled to analyze and stop the genocide in Ukraine, failing to see the pattern. Before Bucha, there was Abkhazia. Before that, Chechnya. And so on. You know what I mean.
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Gocha Gogsadze @gochag.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
8. I say this because Georgia is just a small part of a larger puzzle. What we see today on the world map was barely maintained due to the mistakes made by those in ‘our’ Western camp.
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Gocha Gogsadze @gochag.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
7. From 2016 to 2021, the EU refused to face reality, even as Georgians screamed for help. I remember in 2020 when the EU pressured the opposition to join parliament, despite their boycott, in an attempt to avoid a crisis in Georgia—twice.
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