Co-founder and director International Journalism Festival @journalismfest - Founder @valigiablu
Perugia - Italy
Joined October 2008
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While OSCE/ODIHR preliminary report highlighted plethora of serious problems with 2024 elections in 🇬🇪, it stopped short of labeling election as fraudulent, raising the question: “How much fraud is too much fraud?” Read more in article by Ryan Sherman 👇
civil.ge/archives/633218
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This week's IJF round-up:
How my investigation led to sex trafficking charges against ex-Abercrombie boss, the revolt of creators against mainstream media, and where is the money?
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The Russian Independent Media Archive, targeting and discrediting of Palestinian journalists in Gaza, and lost control of our social media feeds journalismfestival.com/news/… via @journalismfest
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Una decisione coraggiosa, e coerente, di @valigiablu. Speriamo molti altri seguano.
Perché abbiamo deciso di lasciare X di Elon Musk valigiablu.it/valigia-blu-la… via @valigiablu
Perché abbiamo deciso di lasciare X di Elon Musk valigiablu.it/valigia-blu-la… via @valigiablu
Georgia: elezioni contestate fra brogli, violenze e l’ombra del Cremlino. In gioco il futuro della democrazia | @TilmanAlioscia valigiablu.it/georgia-brogli… via @valigiablu
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Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili has called for a protest tomorrow at 19:00 on the central Rustaveli Avenue in Tbilisi.
▶️ Georgia election live updates: oc-media.org/live-updates-op…
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Sanewashing news stories. Shrugging at excesses. Ignoring mental deterioration. Refusing to endorse, making his threat seem trivial. Marching on the road to fascism. All by those he deemed enemy of the people.
What @GregTSargent notices I have noticed too. Have you? Trump's free pass (if he wins) is taken for granted. newrepublic.com/article/1875…
"The fact that he will cancel prosecutions of himself is a standalone alarming story in its own right. It’s almost always mentioned in passing."
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🇬🇪 ‼️ BREAKING: #Georgia’s President @Zourabichvili_S says won’t recognise Saturday’s parliamentary polls, two opposition parties will boycott entering the next parliament. Calls for mass protests tomorrow evening 7pm local Tbilisi time.
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Tre giornalisti uccisi da un attacco aereo israeliano nel Libano meridionale. Sono 131 dall'inizio del conflitto facebook.com/share/p/76NBihV…? Via @valigiablu
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"The elections were neither free nor fair...the European Union cannot recognize the result," senior European parliamentarians said on the Georgian elections, in which official data gave victory to the GD.
civil.ge/?p=631433
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Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia. 4 countries, but one major problem: Russia.
Russia interfering and invading its neighbors makes it so obvious that no agreement or treaty can solve this problem. It is part of Russia's imperial ambition and culture. You cannot negotiate that away, you have to make it. Anyone claiming that this can be solved through negotiations is either unaware of the magnitude of the problem Russia poses or simply lying.
Ukraine is the focal point of that struggle and it will be determined there, if Europe and the West altogether will be free or subject to another series of dictatorships sweeping across the continent. It is the single-greatest fight of our times.
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.@isfed_official head says elections were marked by serious violations, as there were cases of pressure, threats, illegal collection of personal data, expulsion of observers, irregularities in the procedure of marking voters, mobilization of unauthorized people near polling stations, cases of multiple voting and exercising control over voters, insertion of multiple ballots into the ballot box, etc.
According to ISFED, these violations had a serious impact on the election results.
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Gakharia - For Georgia party leader, ex-PM Giorgi Gakharia held a briefing stating that the will of the Georgian people was violated in the elections, but noted, “Now is not the time of hopelessness […] we must all turn to the smart forms of protest, which will be aimed first and foremost at protecting the choice of our citizens, protecting the European future of our country, and protecting the electoral institution as such.”
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Georgia’s opposition has called for protests after rejecting results showing victory for the ruling party. This pivotal election is widely seen as a choice between a future in Europe – or with Russia.
@NastyaStognei in Tbilisi with all the latest on.ft.com/4hoEv7M
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After a day of violence, voter intimidation, raiding homes and offices of opposition and epic level election fraud, the Russian-backed regime has claimed victory in the Georgian Parliamentary elections, releasing the following results.
Georgian Dream: 54.2%
Coalition for Change: 10.82%
Unity National Movement: 10.11%
Strong Georgia: 8.76%
Happy for Georgia: 7.75%
Alliance of Patriots: 2.45%
Labor Party of Georgia: 0.73%
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It looks like I was right when I predicted that Georgian Dream would rig elections. Reposting my letter to the editor, which was kindly published by Civil.ge. Now a lot depends on what opposition & public do as well as on Western reaction. civil.ge/archives/629180
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"Official" results based on 70% of the votes being counted: the exact opposite ,53% for the pro-Russian Georgian Dream. I hate to be right in this case, but it appears that the Kremlin plan for crude vote rigging is in motion.
