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George Melashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦 @mel.ge · 02/10/2026

The regime in Tbilisi has forced out two of Germany's major political foundations, the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung and the Friedrich Naumann Foundation in a clear political signal to Germany and the EU. [1/6]

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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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 02/12/2025

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 · 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 · 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

🗳️ 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 · 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 · 26/05/2025

In 1919 Georgia celebrated Independence Day with girls from “Shevardeni” marching in the streets of Tbilisi - today, pro-democracy forces recreated this march. Georgia’s first republic was one of the first countries in the world to grant women right to vote! 🇬🇪

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George Melashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦 @mel.ge · 26/05/2025

The most meaningful way to celebrate Georgia’s Independence Day 🇬🇪 is by listening to Lasha Bakradze’s brilliant lecture on Friedrich-Werner Graf von der Schulenburg — the German diplomat whose pivotal support was instrumental in Georgia’s 1918 declaration of independence.

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George Melashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦 @mel.ge · 26/05/2025

🇬🇪 Today, Georgia marks its Independence Day — a short-lived freedom, deprived and crushed by the Russian Empire's aggression, yet the foundation of our modern state. Despite brutal occupation and repression, Georgia will rise. The regime shall fall. Our future is with Europe. Our place is in the EU.

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George Melashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦 @mel.ge · 25/05/2025

🇬🇪 Georgia's biggest & most popular music festival OpenAir turned into protest manifesto - here's the speech by Georgia's most popular music band LoudSpeakers - "Down with the Russian Regime!" "Freedom to regime's prisoners!" "Fire to the oligarchy!"

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George Melashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦 @mel.ge · 22/05/2025

Opposition leader Zurab Japaridze has been arrested - a chilling sign Georgia’s authoritarian regime is consolidating power. More to face political trials soon. Stronger reaction from the West is essential now to defend Georgia’s European future and deter Russian operation against Georgia & Europe.

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George Melashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦 @mel.ge · 04/05/2025

A woman waves the Georgian flag in solidarity with the protesters. From her balcony, she's joining the call for the release of political prisoners and free and fair elections. The protest is a genuine grassroots movement, resonating across every corner of society. / Gela Khasaia's video.

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George Melashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦 @mel.ge · 04/05/2025

Destined to be European, Georgia is. Guided by freedom, strong in will, unshaken in hope. May the 4th be with you! #StarWars #GeorgiaEU #MayThe4th

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George Melashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦 @mel.ge · 20/04/2025

✝️ Christus surréxit! Tonight, I celebrated Easter - and, coincidentally, my birthday - on Rustaveli Avenue. To me, being a Christian has always meant standing for truth, love, and justice, serving my homeland and striving for a better world. [1/3]

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George Melashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦 @mel.ge · 11/04/2025

Propaganda is expensive. The immense gaslighting of Georgian population is implemented with unlimited resources - in past THREE months alone, propaganda pages & media spent $169,500 USD on ads only (not even mentioning trolls, bots & "hidden propaganda").

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George Melashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦 @mel.ge · 30/03/2025

Giorgi Targamadze, deputy director of Formula TV & one of Georgia's most influential TV anchors, firmly refuses to participate in an illegitimate investigative commission created to accommodate Kremlin demands, undermining Georgia's national interests. [1/7]

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George Melashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦 @mel.ge · 18/03/2025

Are we getting closer to this tiny rebranding? 💭

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George Melashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦 @mel.ge · 16/03/2025

P.S. A small bonus - a screenshot from that North Korea program in 2018...

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George Melashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦 @mel.ge · 15/03/2025

Together for Europe!🤝Many cities, one voice. May we never forget: Georgians proudly defended this flag long before it became trendy! 🇬🇪🇪🇺😉 Saturday 15 March in many cities across Europe. #TogetherForEurope #EuropeItsUs

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George Melashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦 @mel.ge · 09/03/2025

So, in recent history of #Europe , there was one particular episode when great European powers cooperated against a common enemy instead of infighting - ironically, it was… Crimean war, and didn’t end well for #Russia. [this time, a 🧵 [1/12]

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George Melashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦 @mel.ge · 15/02/2025

Day 80 of the protest against rigged election & Russian regime in Georgia - alive and kicking. 2 demands only - [1] new fair elections, and [2] freedom to all political prisoners of the regime. European spirit is very much alive ;) #believeinEU

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George Melashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦 @mel.ge · 13/02/2025

Although the creativity of Georgian Nightmare is usually of poor quality, I liked this one. The only thing I don’t understand is why my-not the best pic- is there twice. That aside, it brings back childhood memories - this was one of my favorite games and animated series, and I always liked Raiden.

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George Melashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦 @mel.ge · 11/02/2025

Today, a daily protest rally was held near the Public Broadcaster. The topic was "GPB's Fairy Tales for Adults". We strayed a bit from the main subject, but the propagandistic narrative is so complex that we have to discuss many things at once. Photo: Mariam Kvashbaia @publikage.bsky.social

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George Melashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦 @mel.ge · 11/02/2025

It’s always a great pleasure to meet President Zourabichvili. Together with CSOs, we are discussing the importance of keeping Georgia’s issues on the global agenda and defend Georgia’s EUropean path. #GeorgiaProtests

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