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Police detain student on Tbilisi campus
TBILISI, May 14 – Police detained student Elene Gelashvili in the courtyard of the Agricultural University in Tbilisi, after a court sentenced her to two days of administrative detention. The detention took place on Wednesday, May 13, according to Interpressnews. A police officer said at the scene that Gelashvili was being detained on the basis…
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Three killed as BMW crashes into tree near Gardabani
TBILISI, May 14 – Three people were killed in a road accident in Gardabani, southeast of Tbilisi, Interpressnews reported Thursday. According to Ambebi.ge, cited by Interpressnews, a BMW traveling at high speed crashed into a tree. Early reports said the victims were not residents of Gardabani. Gardabani is a municipality in eastern Georgia, close to…
Opinion
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Tbilisi’s truth machine
Georgia’s government is currently shunned by much of Europe. An impression has taken hold that the country has slipped into authoritarian rule. Part of this image rests on the claim that the 2024 parliamentary election was stolen. The strongest false narratives are often assembled from pieces of correct facts. That is what happened here. Let…
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Advocacy dressed up as journalism
The big problem with news coverage of Georgia is that a small cluster of foreign-funded NGO media platforms have come to dominate English-language reporting on the country while presenting themselves as neutral journalism. International media benefit from this arrangement. They get English-fluent intermediaries ready with quotes, angles and ready-made narratives. The NGO platforms benefit too,…