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Georgia, Caucasus, London, Galloway, carpets, architecture Co-director www.rewoven.net

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undrawbill.bsky.social @undrawbill.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Me on BBC From Our Own Correspondent discussing the first humans out of Africa, and how even the Lower Paleolithic isn't safe from the Georgian government. lnkd.in/eh__SS7S
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undrawbill.bsky.social @undrawbill.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Me on BBC From Our Own Correspondent discussing the first humans out of Africa, and how even the Lower Paleolithic isn't safe from the Georgian government. lnkd.in/eh__SS7S
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undrawbill.bsky.social @undrawbill.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
What went wrong in Georgia and what can be done? Me and my colleagues from @RANDEurope discuss in this paper www.rand.org/pubs/perspec...
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Countering Russia-style autocracy in Georgia
The Georgia Dream party is embracing illiberalism, despite the pro-European aspirations of most Georgians. In this perspective, RAND Europe researchers trace this shift and offer options for increased...
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undrawbill.bsky.social @undrawbill.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Read my paean to the architecture of Yerevan in the new issue of Apollo apollo-magazine.com/yerevan-arme...
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The magisterial modernism of Yerevan
A century ago, the architect Alexander Tamanyan devised a startling layout for the city and his vision has endured against the odds, writes William Dunbar
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undrawbill.bsky.social @undrawbill.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Armenia coverage in today’s @private eyenews.bsky.social
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undrawbill.bsky.social @undrawbill.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
More Georgia coverage in today’s @privateeyenews.bsky.social
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undrawbill.bsky.social @undrawbill.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Fascinating study of Georgian Dream voter motivation. If opposition wants to win it must have sensible answer about a) maintaining peace w Russia and b) get serious about unity. All plainly apparent before last election but good to see it spelled out tabula.ge/ge/news/7327...
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ქართული ოცნების მომხრეებში მაღალია კრიზისის შეგრძნება - კვლევა
2025 წლის იანვარ-თებერვალში ქცევის ანალიზის, სტრატეგიისა და კომუნიკაციების გუნდმა (BISC Partners) ქართული ოცნების მხარდამჭერთა გადაწყვეტილების მიღების მამოძრავებელი ფაქტორების კვლევა ჩაატარა.  დოკუმე...
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undrawbill.bsky.social @undrawbill.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
In tribute to March 8 here is my story about the worlds first democratically elected Muslim woman eurasianet.org/the-worlds-f...
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The world's first democratically elected Muslim woman was from Georgia
Armed with a Mauser and smoking a pipe, Peri-Khan is almost unimaginable in the firmly patriarchal Azeri society of today.
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undrawbill.bsky.social @undrawbill.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Some Georgia coverage in Private Eye—who on earth do they get to write this stuff ;)
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undrawbill.bsky.social @undrawbill.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
When Bidzina tore up decades of foreign policy work and turned Georgia towards Russia I was shocked more diplomats—people whose life’s work was ruined—didn’t resign. Now Trump has done the same thing and the State Department is falling into line just like in Georgia
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undrawbill.bsky.social @undrawbill.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Read and subscribe to the first newsletter from www.reWoven.net! mailchi.mp/901e262b4262...
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undrawbill.bsky.social @undrawbill.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Finally my work is published in the Glenkens Gazette, the worlds best local paper
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undrawbill.bsky.social @undrawbill.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Happy news for the Patarkatsishvili family as they get their money back on their Ladbroke Grove palace. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Couple can hand back moth-infested £32.5m mansion
The pair - who bought the London property in 2019 - found moths on toothbrushes and in their clothes.
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undrawbill.bsky.social @undrawbill.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Fascinating account of a high society murder trial that shocked Tiflis in the 1870s diletant.media/articles/452...
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Несчастный случай или убийство? Дело Нины Андреевской
В июле 1876 года в Тифлисе пропала Нина Андреевская. Ее тело нашли в реке, и чтобы разобраться, убийство это или нет, привлекли лучшего юриста того времени.
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undrawbill.bsky.social @undrawbill.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...
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Save The Prince Charles Cinema
The future of the iconic Prince Charles Cinema in London’s West End is under serious threat! We are beyond disappointed that our landlords, Zedwell LSQ Ltd and their ultimate parent company Criterion...
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undrawbill.bsky.social @undrawbill.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Some very happy memories as a teenager here dressed in a basque and feather boa-- please sign: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...
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Save The Prince Charles Cinema
The future of the iconic Prince Charles Cinema in London’s West End is under serious threat! We are beyond disappointed that our landlords, Zedwell LSQ Ltd and their ultimate parent company Criterion...
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undrawbill.bsky.social @undrawbill.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Thai women kept as slaves and farmed for their eggs by Chinese gangsters. This is the dystopia of Bidzina’s Georgia—and it’s only getting worse www.nationthailand.com/news/general...
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Urgent help sought for 100 Thai women forced into human egg farm in Georgia
The Pavena Foundation has urged the Thai government to seek China’s help in cracking down on a Chinese gang that has lured and forced around 100 Thai women into an illegal human egg farm in Georgia.
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Hans Gutbrod @hansgutbrod.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Here you see the white bus into which some of the arrested were taken -- they're trying to keep the door mostly closed but if you look closely you can see the policeman punching. Wanton GD brutality. #Tbilisi #Georgia
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undrawbill.bsky.social @undrawbill.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Marianne died. The mother of my older brother, I knew her in the capacity of a glamorous aunt (or a dowager empress). An extraordinary woman who made music that will last forever. I always hoped there would be one last album, but it was not to be www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0Nx...
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Marianne Faithfull -- The Ballad Of Lucy Jordan HD
YouTube video by walter “Club Dj 80s” mogentale
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undrawbill.bsky.social @undrawbill.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Read this banger by my friend @willcathcart.bsky.social thehill.com/opinion/5113...
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undrawbill.bsky.social @undrawbill.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
A teenager fell through an open manhole and died. This is the second young person to dies in such a way in less than a year in Tbilisi. This is what an unaccountable government run by a feudal lord gets you tvpirveli.ge/ka/siaxleebi...
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undrawbill.bsky.social @undrawbill.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Kazakhstan is sentencing police officers to prison for brutalising protesters during unrest 2 years ago. Georgian cops be warned: the government will will betray you and send some of you to prison the moment they deem in necessary—just like in Kz kaztag.kz/ru/news/prig...
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Приговор полицейским за пытки джазмена и других лиц в ходе Қаңтара – подробности
Конаев. 17 января. КазТАГ – Редакция выяснила подробности по делу о пытках кыргызского джазмена Викрама Рузахунова и других лиц в ходе январских событий, за что в пятницу в Карасайском район...
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undrawbill.bsky.social @undrawbill.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
“You can’t not invite us we weren’t gonna come anyway”
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undrawbill.bsky.social @undrawbill.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Least of his crimes and all that, but how predictable of Zarkua to be a Coldplay fan oc-media.org/georgian-dre...
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Georgian Dream deputies attack Georgian citizen in Abu Dhabi hotel, sparking violent chaos
The incident was caught on film and widely shared on social media.
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undrawbill.bsky.social @undrawbill.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
I say we add it. I want holiday season to extend from Gregorian Barbaroba to Julian Epiphany
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undrawbill.bsky.social @undrawbill.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
I would like to make it clear that while I support moving Christmas to Dec 25th, that comes with the important proviso that January 7th remain a public holiday as "Old Christmas", just like we have Old New Year on Jan 14. This is fitting and what the baby Jesus would have wanted
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undrawbill.bsky.social @undrawbill.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Rene Magritte looks like a mix of David Lynch and Leonid Brezhnev
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undrawbill.bsky.social @undrawbill.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Could they be doing this to each other???
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undrawbill.bsky.social @undrawbill.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
This is a family that really sacrificed for Georgia. They've sacrificed Georgia's EU accession, its democratic institutions, and even its rule of law. It's getting so bad that now they can't even afford zebra food. Please help the Ivanishvilis any way you can by donating to GE82TB7107945066300002
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undrawbill.bsky.social @undrawbill.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
They had a really rough year. The children have a rare disease, and the dad lost his savings to a scammer in Credit Suisse. Just a week before New Year they were caught up in a misunderstanding with the American government, and now they might have to look for work in Russia. 2/n
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undrawbill.bsky.social @undrawbill.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
Guys I don't normally ask but this New Year I'm doing a fundraiser for a disadvantaged family of patriotic Georgians from a remote village in Imereti. 1/n
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undrawbill.bsky.social @undrawbill.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
An atheist who unleashes religious bigotry for political purposes. A man responsible for elevating homophobia to a national priority. He and Rukhadze are laughing at their supporters as they try to use their prejudices to maintain power. It can't go on forever. Ends
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undrawbill.bsky.social @undrawbill.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
And he's not the only one. Bidzina Ivanishvili himself, the man who spearheaded GD's anti-LGBT crusade, who has stolen Georgia's EU future and who is risking setting the country alight, is also a hypocrite. 10/n
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undrawbill.bsky.social @undrawbill.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
This is because Rukhadze, like almost everyone in GD is a hypocrite. He doesn't believe in a Soros plot to destroy civilisation. He is perfectly comfortable with same sex marriage. He just doesn't have any principals beyond maintaining his power and wealth. 9/n
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undrawbill.bsky.social @undrawbill.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
You would hope that having a gay daughter would make you think twice before turning your TV station into a platform to those who would make her marriage illegal, prevent her from appearing in public and even do her physical harm. But that doesn't seem to trouble Rukhadze. 8/n
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undrawbill.bsky.social @undrawbill.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
While many people had long know about this, it was spread widely on Georgian Facebook yesterday by LGBT and environmental activist Tamar Jakeli. 7/n
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undrawbill.bsky.social @undrawbill.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
I wish her all the best. But one has to wonder how she feels about her dad using his propaganda machine to decry same sex marriage as the greatest threat to western civilisation. How does he justify his support of anti-gay pogroms to her? Especially when she post things like this 6/n:
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undrawbill.bsky.social @undrawbill.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
The greatest irony of all, is that over the past five years, as Imedi has gone from a mere government mouthpiece to a Der Stürmer-like anti-gay hate channel, Rukhadze's American daughter Alexandra has been living openly as a gay woman. Here she is at her wedding. 5/n
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undrawbill.bsky.social @undrawbill.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Yet for Imedi owner Rukhadze this anti-gay crusade is a charade. Rukhadze himself is a liberal. An enabler of violence, a friend to pro-oligarchs, a proven liar in court, but a liberal. His mother even worked for the Soros Foundation. 4/n
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undrawbill.bsky.social @undrawbill.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Imedi's vicious campaign against LGBT people runs in parallel to that of the government, whose promise of anti-LGBT constitutional amendments were a key part of their election strategy. Their nomination of notorious homophobe Mikheil Kavelashvili was the latest move in this campaign. 3/n
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undrawbill.bsky.social @undrawbill.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
There is lots (lots) to say about Rukhadze's chequered past, but pertinent here is how the UK-resident, US citizen has turned Imedi TV into a vehicle for spreading hated, lies and conspiracy theories about gay people, Soros, and the decadent West in general. 2/n
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undrawbill.bsky.social @undrawbill.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Bitter irony that the men driving Georgia towards becoming an authoritarian, theocratic nightmare are themselves liberals. Prime example: minigarch Irakli Rukhadze, owner of H̵u̵t̵u̵ ̵P̵o̵w̵e̵r̵ ̵R̵a̵d̵i̵o̵ TV Imedi, a Goebbelsian figure at the heart of the regime. 1/n
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undrawbill.bsky.social @undrawbill.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Britain sanctions five Georgian security figures for their roles in brutal treatment of protesters. Step in right direction but more needed www.gov.uk/government/n...
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UK sanctions Georgian officials responsible for brutal crackdown on media and protestors
The UK has designated five Georgian officials for serious human rights violations.
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undrawbill.bsky.social @undrawbill.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
I hesitate to say it but I… I quite like Assad’s palace. Looks like a successful mid century university building
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undrawbill.bsky.social @undrawbill.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
I hear Gharibashvili dislocated his shoulder jerking off
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undrawbill.bsky.social @undrawbill.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Judging by this readout, Macron called Bidzina in order to berate him for an hour—which actually sounds quite fun
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undrawbill.bsky.social @undrawbill.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
An effigy of Bidzina Ivanishvili was burned at the protests tonight
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undrawbill.bsky.social @undrawbill.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
The resistance is dogged x.com/jamnewscauca...
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Kevin Rothrock @kevinrothrock.me · 09/12/2024
Pussy Riot founding member Maria Alyokhina has been barred from entering the Republic of Georgia. She shared a photo of her entry denial paperwork and a note denouncing the authorities for admitting Russian propagandists who report favorably on the police crackdown against anti-govt protesters.
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Andro @thisisandro.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
One with the star on top
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