What's happening in Georgia?
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What's happening in Georgia? In October 2024, the Georgian Dream party extended its 12 years in power following rigged elections. A month later, Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze announced Georgia was freezing its application to become a member of the European Union. His speech sparked outrage, and daily public protests. Police, special forces and state-approved heavies (or 'titushkies') were deployed to brutally supress protests and target protestors and journalists. Repressive laws (FARA, the Law on Grants) were enacted to make it almost impossible for NGOs, civil society groups, independent media and lawyers to remain solvent, and to challenge the government... but still they do.
What is the story of Georgian Dream, and its backer, the billionaire oligarch Bidzhina Ivanishvili? When did this nominally 'pro-European' government cast off its mask and reveal its desire to create a Russian-style authoritarian state in pro-European Georgia?
English language podcast about the situation in Georgia.
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S1E6 6. Words Can Hurt Them
On 6 August 2025, Mzia Amaglobeli, a journalist and the co-founder of the independent news platforms Netgazeti and Batumelebi, was sentenced to two years in prison. The provocation, arrest, and…
S1E5 5. Spies Like Us
In 2022, the campaign to villify civil society intensified. The Georgian Dream fake news machine went into overdrive. False claims about NGO finance and the personal wealth and beliefs of senior…
S1E4 4. A strange kind of love
'A strange kind of love' charts Georgian Dreams journey from the 2016 parliamentary 'landslide' that masked deep voter dissatisfaction; to apparent progress on European integration that feels now…
S1E3 3. Mzia
When a regime persistently violates a range of human rights, what should journalists do? If they report the facts, should they be targeted, threatened and physically abused? Mzia Amaglobeli,…
S1E2 2. Rewind: The very generous oligarch
Who is Bidzina Ivanishvili? What are his politics? And how did he rise to power?The billionaire founder of Georgian Dream made his money in Russia in the 1990s, and retains business interests and…
S1E1 1. Introduction: What's happening in Georgia?
On 28 November last year, the man many Georgian's refer to as their 'so-called Prime Minister', Irakli Kobakhidze, announced that the ruling party, Georgian Dream, was pausing the country's…
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What's happening in Georgia? has published 6 episodes since July 2025, covering topics in Documentary, News.
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