Georgian Dream is watching: how AI-powered surveillance is used against Tbilisi protesters

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Georgia’s new foreign agent law, FARA, means that any or all of us at OC Media could face fines or imprisonment for doing our jobs.

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Amid the current global turmoil, small news outlets like ours could be the first to close. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Thanks to our readers, 12% of our subsistence budget now comes from our community. Stand up for independent journalism.

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In our final podcast episode before pausing due to lack of funds, OC Media’s Mariam Nikuradze and Dominik K. Cagara break down how the Trump/Musk cuts have impacted us — and what we’re doing to survive in a changing world.

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🔴 BREAKING: Armenia and Azerbaijan have reportedly agreed on the terms of a historic peace deal, after over three decades of bitter conflict.

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Marco Rubio’s State Department has sent out letters cancelling US funding for media throughout the world, including for OC Media. We refuse to allow a distant politician decide our fate — become an OC Media member and help ensure our survival and growth: oc-media.org/membership/?...

For those who were asking me, how we were affected by aid cuts, here's answer, we compiled a story about it, there will be more stories coming about the impact on OC, so keep an eye.

I am sure we will survive this, we've survived worse times!
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OC Media could face closure after cuts to foreign aid spearheaded by US President Donald Trump and tech billionaire Elon Musk have left the organisation with a $250,000 shortfall.

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BREAKING: Unconfirmed reports suggest that OC Media co-founder and co-director Mariam Nikuradze may have been placed on a list of people to be arrested by the Georgian authorities. oc-media.org/oc-media-fou...

Footage of Georgian riot police kicking a man unconscious during the dispersal of protesters on Tbilisi's Rustaveli Avenue. The victim is reported to be stand up comedian Onise Chkheidze.

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After previous rounds of repression, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev is again moving to eradicate the free press. But despite his apparent strength, the existence of organisations like Abzas Media, currently in the crosshairs, proves he cannot succeed.

Georgian PM Irakli Gharibashvili, along with the speaker of parliament, the leader of the ruling party, the Mayor of Tbilisi, and ruling party MPs have flocked to the opening of a hotel in Tbilisi linked to Georgian Dream founder Bidzina Ivanishvili.

On the three-year anniversary of the end of the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War, we speak with Marut Vanyan, a journalist from Stepanakert, CivilNet’s Karen Harutyunyan, and Azerbaijani analyst @smdov.bsky.social about the lasting impact of the war, and how it continues to shape the region’s future.

I started writing this piece last December but kept postponing it as worse things kept happening. Finally, I managed to put it together. Hopefully, it will help to understand where Georgia is now and how we got there.
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Photo: Giorgi Nakashidze.

Having worked as a journalist for the past 14 years, I have seen and documented my country’s descent into authoritarianism first-hand — on the capital’s central Rustaveli Avenue through the lens of my camera, argues
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With the exodus of practically the entire population of Nagorno-Karabakh now complete, many of those forced to start new lives from scratch reflect on what — and who — they have left behind. OC Media’s Arshaluys Barseghyan reports from Goris.