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”Mr. Kakhi, greetings … I salute to you and address you as an ordinary, law-abiding citizen of Georgia, a patriot of the country, an honest person, a worker, a straight A student,

Journalist Levan Sutidze expressed his opinions on the “Formula” Channel. “My condolences to the family (of Lekso Lashkarava), to all of my colleagues and, first of all, to the Georgian society that

“5 503 and 382 734 – These are statistics, people depicted in numbers. 5503 people have died in the last 18 months, and next to that is a colossal number – 382

“I would like to make a video appeal for Gharibashvili and “Georgian Dream”, but I cannot do that, because I cannot speak. But I can write; Writing is my power. So I

Activist Kristi Chelidze writes about the current events on Facebook: “The state is clearly trying to blame Pride and other non-governmental organizations, whose offices have been ransacked and whose people chased down

“In the last few days, nothing has been harder for me than shaping my thoughts. I am experiencing every thought and feeling at once – sometimes even opposite ones. Probably weeks, months

“Why does anyone think that I’m any different from them? It hasn’t been long since I started observing people, but this short period helped me realize one thing: all of us have

Tamar Agata Kapanadze – Lawyer, Human Rights Activist, Tbilisi Shelter City Communications Manager: ”Pride Week and its aftermath have shown me a lot, first of all, that the support and visibility of

I was 17 years old on May 17, 2013, I was living in Batumi and the footage I saw on TV was the final straw for me to put an end to

Pride was first held in Ukraine in 2013. A total of 80 people attended the public gathering as a part of the Pride. Peaceful participants in the rally were attacked by members