#republic of Georgia

[victusinveritas]

Georgian food is great though (this is a Khatchapuri).

[jadeseadragon]

Archaeologists Found an Ancient Tablet With 39 Letters That Don’t Belong to Any Known Language

[pinotn]

Abandoned trains, Republic of Georgia

[abwwia]

Georgian Women Artists

[briery]

Dmitry Gomberg: Akrak Vazha (The Shepherd’s Way) Artist’s statement: “This is a story about Tusheti - mountain region in the Republic of Georgia. Tusheti lies near the Chechen border and it is culturally closer to Chechens than to Georgians.

The story is about shepherds who travel every summer to their ancestors’ land Tusheti and than return to spend the winter at the bottom of the mountain. Twice a year they travel with their sheep through the pass in the Caucasus which is 3,000 meters high. 

I was staying and documenting life of the Shepherds in the Caucasus mountains for 5 years. These people have been cheese makers since before Christ. Their life is simple and harsh, but beautiful.”

[newbiepagancat]

Meanwhile in Republic of Georgia

GD has proposed legislative changes that would allow the banning of political parties if they are deemed similar to previously banned parties. The ruling party initiated these changes amid its threats to ban the currently existing opposition groups.

The 'GD" - "Georgian Dream" is the ruling party here in Republic of Georgia, since 2012. Its boss is a billionaire and Russian oligarch (by source of his capital and intense ties with Kremlin).

The "Georgian Dream" party come to power as result of Kremlin disinfo campaign took place in 2011-2012 years. Kremlin gave Bidzina Ivanishvili 2 biliion USD to oust Mikheil Saakashvili and is team, and United National Movement, from the power here in Georgia country.

At first Ivanishvili played "lets sit on 2 stools" game. GD even got visa liberalization for Georgia, even repressions against UNM, and Milkheil Saakashvili were ongoing already.

Mikheil Saakashvili is in prison now, and I guess it was a state services trap to lure him return to Georgia, in FSB-style.

Recently GD rigged parliamentary elections in 2024, and made a sham "president elections" using parody to Electoral College, stuffed with GD loyalists, prepared during years of election stealing and voters buyout and manipulation with disinfo campaigns, and other dirty tactics.

People starting for more than 125 days in a row after GD declared to stop EU membership negotiations.

So current news should not surprise anyone.

GD wants violence and does anything to shrink legal field of protest and reduces legalized political space to soviet-style single-party political graveyard landscape.

[seeingthework]

King Tamar's Palace and others, Republic of Georgia

[erik-even-wordier]

To be fair, the flag in the OP -- depending on browser support and installed fonts -- may be very tiny or not shown at all.

hi if ur unaware georgia 🇬🇪 (where i live) has officially banned gay marriage, gay ‘propaganda’, gender reassignment surgery and anything ’promoting’ it. a trans model, kesaria abramidze, has been murdered as a direct consequence of this legislation. if you have a queer georgian in your life pls let them know they are loved and let this solidify why we Need pride and hope cause jesus fuck man

[wolfie-wolfgang]

Going to Georgia

[victusinveritas]

[pinotn]

Enguri dam, Georgia

[abwwia]

Ketevan Magalashvili (1894-1973)

#bornonhisday Ketevan Magalashvili (1894-1973) was a Georgian and Soviet painter and art conservator. via Wikipedia #PalianSHOW

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View of the Caucasus from overhead

Taken March 2025

[drinksss]

flag beasts (disputed territories edition)

[ezicorifl]

[seeingthework]

Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia

Few places are as cool as Tbilisi and having high school friends who are native made the experience even better! The graffiti was very interesting too!