From me and peter pomerantsev, a new narrative podcast drops today: AUTOCRACY IN AMERICA the first episode is here: theatlantic.com/podcasts/archi…

Georgian PM Irakli Kobakhidze says that Sen. Jeanne Shaheen’s claim he asked her to stop funding all government-critical NGOs is a “pure lie” and that he “didn’t say anything like that at the meeting”.

JUST NOW!!! Biden Administration Announces Additional Security Assistance for Ukraine This Presidential Drawdown Authority (PDA) package, which has an estimated value of $250 million, will provide Ukraine additional capabilities to meet its most urgent needs, including: air

russia is a terrorist state.

lavrov slammed Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili and former president Saakashvili for not establishing an anti-terrorist center in Georgia with Russian involvement. Must take quite audacity to say this but this is Russia we are talking about. civil.ge/archives/622797

Irakli Kobakhidze stated that meeting with the German delegation is unacceptable because Michael Roth - official 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇮🇱🇬🇪 gave a speech from the stage at the Tbilisi protests against the foreign agents law, accusing Roth of being involved in "revolutionary" activities.

the world owes this man answers why it didn’t stop this.

„When they go low, we go high.“ Anyone in Georgia who holds a parliamentary delegation collectively responsible for the actions of a freely elected MP doesn’t understand democracy. 1/2

During my visit in Tbilisi as a member of a cross-party delegation from 🇱🇹🇵🇱🇨🇿🇫🇮🇩🇪 the government refused to talk to us and we were’nt received in parliament. Demonizing and criminalising one's own civil society, demonstrating simply for European values, is a disgrace. 2/2

WSJ: US has told allies that Iran has sent short-range ballistic missiles to Russia. So far, hundreds sent. Sanctions being worked up by U.S., EU and partners liveuamap.com/en/2024/6-sept…

HAPPENING NOW: U.S. intel officials are briefing foreign reporters on election security "Russia, Iran and China, are all trying by some measure, to exacerbate divisions in U.S. society for their own benefit, and see election periods as moments of vulnerability" officials say

After a month of Ukrainian ground operation inside Kursk region of Russia, Ukraine holds a sizeable piece of Russia in control, no meaningful counter-offensive attempts by Russian armed forces

Very democratic

And lavrov dares and lectures Georgians on our identity and how to preserve it.

Russian efforts to spread propaganda in the United States are not free speech. They're part of a shadow war Russia is waging against Americans and people living in democracies around the world designed to undermine the freedoms we cherish.