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George Melashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦

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🦊 Europe-Georgia Institute, President. Patriot of 🇬🇪. Believer in Georgia's 🇪🇺 Future & Transatlantic Alliance.

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George Melashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦 @mel.ge · 26/09/2026
33 years ago today, on 27 September 1993, Sukhumi fell. For my family, it will never be just a date in the calendar. That day, in the besieged Council of Ministers building, my grandfather Alexander Berulava was killed alongside Zhiuli Shartava and others who refused to leave. [1/6]
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George Melashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦 @mel.ge · 21/09/2026
A bit of an unexpected turn, and a real pleasure: I moderated a panel at the Tbilisi Architecture Forum - "Beyond Shelter: Rebuilding Homes, Identity and Belonging After War." [1/6]
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George Melashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦 @mel.ge · 03/09/2026
Delighted to be speaking at the London Security Conference: Frontlines of Europe on 7 September at the National Liberal Club - organised by @eurliberalforum.bsky.social , Liberal International & a host of brilliant partners.If you're in London, drop me a message. Always glad to meet and chat.
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George Melashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦 @mel.ge · 01/09/2026
Ex-Georgian Dream PM Gharibashvili is now publicly raising doubts about a series of suicides "during the Kobakhidze-Mdinaradze rule". He says a respondent in Dito Chubinidze's article later took his own life, and [1/2]
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George Melashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦 @mel.ge · 28/08/2026
Daur Buava has been found dead. My condolences to his family, his friends, and everyone who knew him. He was born and raised in Russian-occupied Abkhazia, under an apartheid regime built on propaganda and lies, where an ethnic Georgian was, and still is, a dehumanised enemy. [1/3]
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George Melashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦 @mel.ge · 26/08/2026
Georgian Dream tried to eliminate civil society. It yet stands. But surviving isn't winning. My new @gmfus.bsky.social paper: the shift now has to be from a protest mentality to a construction mentality. Georgian civil society can do it. 📄 Read more 👉 www.gmfus.org/news/defendi...
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George Melashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦 @mel.ge · 26/08/2026
University admissions data landed yesterday, and it tells two stories the government would rather you didn't read side by side: Russian: 2.7%; English: 96.7%.Ilia State University: 3468 students last year; only 304 this year. [1/5]
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George Melashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦 @mel.ge · 22/08/2026
Georgian Studies program at Harvard University, launched in 2022 within the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies with the Georgian government's backing, has closed after the Georgian Education Ministry refused to extend funding. civil.ge/archives/748...
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Harvard Georgian Studies Program Closes After Tbilisi Does Not Extend Funding - Civil Georgia
The program on Georgian Studies at Harvard University in the U.S., launched in 2022 within the Davis
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George Melashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦 @mel.ge · 14/08/2026
34 years ago today, war broke out in Abkhazia. Every year on this day we pay our respects to the victims of Russian imperialism - and this year there's something rare to add. A man of genuine dignity within Russia, 🧵 [1/16]
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George Melashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦 @mel.ge · 13/08/2026
Two empires tried to delete this man from Georgian history. The Russian Empire started it. The Soviets finished the job. In 1810 they arrested him. He escaped and raised a rebellion. 🧵 [1/14]
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George Melashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦 @mel.ge · 07/08/2026
🧵 Russia initiated 2008 war with Georgia. Here's how events unfolded step-by-step, highlighting Russia's premeditation and escalation: 1️⃣ July 29, 2008: South Ossetian forces, backed by RU, fired upon OSCE observers and GE peacekeepers with artillery prohibited in the conflict zone since 2004. [1/10]
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George Melashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦 @mel.ge · 29/07/2026
🇬🇪🇳🇷 Nauru has recognised Georgia's territorial integrity and withdrawn its recognition of #Abkhazia and #Tskhinvali region, terminating diplomatic relations with both.
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George Melashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦 @mel.ge · 03/07/2026
Peter Fischer was the rare kind of diplomat: one who defended a friendship rather than merely managed a relationship. My latest for @ocmedia.bsky.social is a farewell to the outgoing German Ambassador & Germany's quiet, steadfast support for Georgia's European path. 🇩🇪🇬🇪 oc-media.org/opinion-sayi...
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Opinion | Saying farewell to Georgia’s steadfast supporter, German Ambassador Peter Fischer
Germany’s friendship with Georgia began long before Fischer, and will outlive the Georgian Dream government now bent on rejecting it.
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George Melashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦 @mel.ge · 06/05/2026
I spoke with TVP World today about Meloni's Yerevan-Baku shuttle. On 4 May, the Italian PM attended the 8th European Political Community summit in Yerevan, then flew directly to Baku to meet President Aliyev. Same roses at both airports. The sequencing was deliberate.
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George Melashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦 @mel.ge · 28/04/2026
Andrzej Poczobut is free. The Polish journalist and 2025 Sakharov laureate walks out of Lukashenko's prison today - a moment of profound relief, and a vindication of every voice that refused to let him be forgotten. [1/2]
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George Melashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦 @mel.ge · 28/04/2026
Today, #VTSakartveloNews goes on air. A Georgian-language project from the international newsroom of Poland's public broadcaster @tvpworld.bsky.social - committed to daily reporting from Georgia and the world, and standing firmly against propaganda. [1/3]
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George Melashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦 @mel.ge · 23/04/2026
Pleased to share that my essay "Georgia's democracy is being quietly strangled" is out in the latest issue of New Eastern Europe (No. 3/2026), as part of a feature package on whether human rights still matter. [1/6]
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George Melashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦 @mel.ge · 17/04/2026
Somewhere deep in the Georgian mountains, the sky just closed. A no-fly zone, larger than greater Tbilisi, appeared almost without notice. The official story involves a telescope. The telescope hasn't been touched since the Khrushchev era. The real story involves something else entirely. 👽🧵 [1/10]
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George Melashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦 @mel.ge · 15/04/2026
Yesterday Georgia celebrated National Language Day 🇬🇪 The Umm Leisun inscription - an Old Georgian limestone tombstone discovered in 2002 in Jerusalem - contains the earliest known use of the ethnonym ႵႠႰႧႥႤႪႨ [1/2]
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George Melashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦 @mel.ge · 09/04/2026
This was filmed two days before Russian forces massacred peaceful protesters in Tbilisi. April 1989. The Soviet empire was still intact - and Georgians were already fighting to escape it, already demanding our place in the West. We have paid dearly for that conviction. We are still paying. Watch.
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George Melashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦 @mel.ge · 01/04/2026
On this day in 2008, NATO made one of its greatest strategic mistakes at the Bucharest Summit. [1/5]
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George Melashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦 @mel.ge · 17/03/2026
At the age of 93, in the 49th year of his enthronement upon the Patriarchal Throne, His Holiness and Beatitude Ilia II, Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia, Archbishop of Mtskheta-Tbilisi, and Metropolitan of Bichvinta and Tskhum-Abkhazia, has fallen asleep in the Lord.
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George Melashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦 @mel.ge · 11/03/2026
An elite oligarch-backed university. A secretive research centre. A name that should have remained buried in history: Ahnenerbe. A very dark story where pseudoscience, power, and Nazi mythmaking collide in plain sight. 👇 Link in second tweet.
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George Melashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦 @mel.ge · 02/03/2026
What you need to know about REAL freedom of the press in Georgia: since Georgian Dream banned filming in courts, #Publika & other medias have submitted around 20 formal requests to the High Council of Justice asking to record trials. Zero replies. 0. [1/2]
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George Melashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦 @mel.ge · 25/02/2026
The UK sanctions Imedi TV and POSTV for Russian disinformation. Meanwhile in Georgia: critical media pushed to the brink of closure, journalists beaten, a female media leader jailed... [1/2]
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George Melashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦 @mel.ge · 21/02/2026
If you miss Dan Brown—secret codes, mystical calendars, numerology dressed up as revelation—you don’t need a thriller. Georgia now has the real thing. It’s being taught under a university logo, funded by an oligarch. Curious? Buckle up! 🧵👇
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George Melashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦 @mel.ge · 17/02/2026
Former NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg: “The big mistake was not to provide more support earlier to Ukraine.” The West’s gravest mistake was its (non-)reaction to Russia’s invasion of Georgia in 2008. That failure to act opened the gates of hell Russia would later unleash on the continent.
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George Melashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦 @mel.ge · 15/02/2026
Pleased to be quoted in a @kyivpost.com analysis unpacking how #Georgia’s gov masks authoritarian drift behind carefully crafted rhetoric. Grateful to James Lewis for rigorous reporting & taking propaganda seriously - as policy, not noise. Clarity still matters. 🇬🇪🇪🇺 www.kyivpost.com/analysis/69983
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Analysis: The Smoke-and-Mirrors Rhetoric Shielding Georgia’s Outcast Autocracy
Although one may justifiably call Georgia’s current government pro-Russia, the approach is consciously subtle. Rather than extol Moscow, they prefer to denigrate the EU.
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George Melashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦 @mel.ge · 02/12/2025
So, the @bbcnewslive.bsky.social published its investigation. I was among the protesters sprayed by the water cannon laced with a WW1-era chemical that night. This is me afterwards. The symptoms didn’t go away: the burning, the coughing, the shortness of breath stayed with me and [1/2]
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George Melashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦 @mel.ge · 01/12/2025
Georgia just became the first country in Europe where a WW1-era chemical weapon was used against peaceful protesters. According to a BBC investigation, water cannons were laced with camite - a toxic compound from 1930s with long-lasting, dangerous effects. [1/5] www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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WW1 toxic compound sprayed on Georgian protesters, BBC evidence suggests
Anti-government demonstrators are likely to have been targeted with camite, our investigation finds.
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George Melashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦 @mel.ge · 11/11/2025
As the grandson of a man who embodied courage, dignity, and unwavering duty, this Remembrance Day is both national and deeply personal for me – his values remain with me every single day. [1/7]
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George Melashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦 @mel.ge · 30/10/2025
🧵“Sanctions Bubble”-How 🇬🇪 Became Russia’s Safe Haven for Sanctions Evasion 🇬🇪💰🇷🇺 The war in Ukraine reshaped global trade flows, but in Georgia, it created a bubble of profit around sanctions evasion, empowering oligarch and capturing the state. [1/12] fpc.org.uk/dealing-with...
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Dealing with the Sanctions Bubble in Georgia - The Foreign Policy Centre
Summary Western sanctions against Russia, designed to isolate and weaken the Kremlin’s war economy, have instead generated a global “sanctions bubble”: an adaptive ecosystem of intermediaries, offshor...
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George Melashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦 @mel.ge · 26/10/2025
From Kyiv in 3 days to [...] - please fill the gap. And Ukrainians don't even have Tomahawks... yet - it is proven that best defence against them is tortoise formation.
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George Melashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦 @mel.ge · 19/10/2025
This is Ms. Aza from #Gagra - the woman who secretly buried those executed in #Abkhazia, risking her own life. Now, GD regime police fined her for a “violation.” I can’t imagine a more painful scene. What did this heroic woman do wrong? Wore an “illegal” face mask somewhere?
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George Melashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦 @mel.ge · 06/10/2025
#Putin is the only one responsible for Putin's war - and I am very 'happy' that #Merkel's mask is falling off. Misperception of #Russia, being a #Putinversteher, endangering security of the European continent and responsibility for all the mess we're in now - that's her legacy.
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George Melashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦 @mel.ge · 05/10/2025
🇬🇪 In my recent interview with TVP WORLD, I discussed the mass protests in Georgia on October 4th - and what they reveal about the state of democracy and governance in the country. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BLf...
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Mass protest in Georgia after local elections | George Melashvili
YouTube video by TALKING WITH TVP WORLD
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George Melashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦 @mel.ge · 05/10/2025
🗳️ The lowest voter turnout in Georgia’s municipal election history. The regime wanted a referendum on its legitimacy? The people have spoken - with silence.
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George Melashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦 @mel.ge · 04/10/2025
Georgian Nightmare propagandists brag, but lie: 1.) GD froze bank accounts of ISFED - Georgia's oldest & most respected election observer; 2.) GD DID NOT invite OSCE/ODIHR - and utilized Lukashenko's trick by 'inviting' them a couple weeks before the election, [1/2]
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George Melashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦 @mel.ge · 03/10/2025
🇩🇪 Today we congratulate #Germany on Unity Day - a celebration of freedom, resilience, and democracy. The fall of the Berlin Wall showed the world that no division is eternal, and that freedom always finds its way. [1/9]
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George Melashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦 @mel.ge · 02/10/2025
One of Georgia’s oldest non-partisan independent think tanks and research centers, the Georgian Institute of Politics, has succumbed to pressure and is forced to suspend its operations indefinitely. Yet another example of authoritarian and draconian Georgian Nightmare.
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George Melashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦 @mel.ge · 28/09/2025
MOLDOVA - won! Kremlin's machinations failed. Despite #Russia's all-in, they lost in #Moldova tonight 🇲🇩 Great night for #Europe!
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George Melashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦 @mel.ge · 28/09/2025
#Durov’s story about “mysterious” French secret services is empty theater. No proof on #Moldova. But #Telegram’s compliance with #Kremlin requests against RU opposition channels is well documented. “Private”? Not really - default E2E off, metadata on.
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George Melashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦 @mel.ge · 28/09/2025
Dear 🇲🇩 #Moldova, defend your democracy and European choice. Do not repeat 🇬🇪 our mistakes - don’t let Russia in again: it is hell difficult to get rid of their nightmares.
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George Melashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦 @mel.ge · 27/09/2025
#Moldova banned the crew of the Georgian governmental propaganda channel #Imedi from entry—the absolutely right way to deal with Russian propagandists spreading anti-EU narratives. EU should follow! @euingeorgia.bsky.social / @ec.europa.eu / @europarl.europa.eu
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George Melashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦 @mel.ge · 10/09/2025
First of all: solidarity with 🇵🇱 Poland. Poland is a country that we, Georgians, and I personally, feel especially close to. Shared pain from RU occupations, Poland’s solidarity during RU's invasion of GE in 2008, and unwavering support for GE's European future have bound our nations together. [1/7]
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George Melashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦 @mel.ge · 09/08/2025
🇦🇲🇦🇿 Congratulations to our beloved neighbors — at last, this bloody chapter in the history of the #Caucasus has closed. The strings of Russian control have been severed, and a new path toward peace has emerged. May peace & prosperity bless #Armenia, #Azerbaijan, and the entire region. [1/7]
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George Melashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦 @mel.ge · 05/06/2025
“It has long been Georgian Dream’s strategy to gradually cut Georgia’s institutional and symbolic ties with the West,” George Melashvili, director of the Europe-Georgia Institute, said. www.euractiv.com/section/poli...
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Brussels condemns closing down of Georgia's EU and NATO info centre - Euractiv
Tensions between Georgia and the EU have steadily escalated since the Georgian Dream party claimed victory in the 2023 parliamentary elections.
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George Melashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦 @mel.ge · 02/06/2025
🇬🇪 Georgian Dream is cracking down on free speech - weaponizing the Communications Commission against TV Pirveli & TV Formula for using words like "regime", "Russification", "clan court" & others. This is not regulation. It’s censorship. Freedom of speech is under attack.
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George Melashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦 @mel.ge · 30/05/2025
🚨 At Mariam Lashkhi’s request, a 19-year-old girl is jailed for 12 days. A “lawmaker” obsessed with “Masonic demons” - who’s done nothing for the country - sent a teenager to prison. What could be more Soviet, more humiliating than this? Remember this when you shake her hand.
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Hans Gutbrod @hansgutbrod.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
there is the beautiful theory that academics want to stand for better things & then there is the sordid reality that (especially German) academics continue *directly* collaborating with key perpetrators in #Georgia. Here my open letter to @ralfmichaels.bsky.social of the @maxplanck.de who is...
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