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Four years into Russia’s full-scale war and no end in sight

When I came to Georgia from Kyiv in early February 2022, as warnings were heating up about an impending full-throated Russian invasion, I could not have fathomed it would even begin on the scale it did on 24 February, let alone that it would be still going on four years later. I never did end up going back to my life in Kyiv, apart from a few visits to Ukraine over the past few years, including one in 2025 when I had my first personal experience with a Russian drone and missile attack. There is

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Vance’s Armenian Genocide gaffe said the quiet part out loud

‘In solemn remembrance of the lives lost, we honour the resilience and enduring spirit of the Armenian people,’ US Vice President JD Vance wrote in the guestbook of the Armenian Genocide memorial after he visited the site during his working trip to Armenia. Not only did Vance avoid clarifying when, by whom, and how those lives were lost, but he also became a centre of online controversy after his post explicitly using the term ‘Armenian Genocide’ was deleted. The US recognised the mass murder

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The day riot police poisoned me

On 28 November 2024, after Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze announced the halting of Georgia’s EU-integration process, I went to cover the ensuing protest. As the crowd grew bigger and bigger outside the parliament building located on Tbilisi's central Rustaveli Avenue, riot police took different spots around it. As it neared midnight, they began to disperse the demonstrators. I was on the fountain structure outside the parliament building trying to document a water cannon targeting camera ope

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