Nini Gabritchidze

Georgia

Co-Author, The Dispatch at Civil.ge

Author at @CivilGe / formerly - Georgia correspondent at @eurasianet

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Dispatch – April 15 – To kill a swallow - Civil Georgia

1 week ago | civil.ge | Nini Gabritchidze

Sometimes it feels like the only thing different about Georgian Dream supporters is that they just got tired of it all a lot sooner than the rest of us did. It is remarkable how much energy a lack of energy can have. Exhaustion, or the state of being drained of power, is still powerful enough to create discourses, build ideologies, poison with propaganda, transform worldviews, confront, destroy, hate, alienate, accuse, excuse, name and shame, or gaslight your former comrades into giving up.
Dispatch – April 7: Moveable Feast - Civil Georgia

2 weeks ago | civil.ge | Nini Gabritchidze

History does repeat itself – first as tragedy, then as FARA. The introduction of foreign agent laws has become a kind of a moveable feast in Georgia, taking place every year in the same season but in different weeks. And just like with Easter, probably the most popular of the moveable feasts, this year’s foreign agents’ celebration seems to be special as it coincides with the Western version. Or so Georgian Dream claims.
Dispatch – March 31: Last Days of Tea - Civil Georgia

3 weeks ago | civil.ge | Nini Gabritchidze

…of Revolutionary Tea, Reactionary Tea, and SolidariTeaFrom Boston to Tbilisi, tea has always been about revolution. It would be hard to find a better visual representation of the 2003 Rose Revolution than the cold images of Mikheil Saakashvili sipping tea from a cup reserved for then-president Eduard Shevardnadze on the parliamentary rostrum.
Dispatch – March 24: Magic Words - Civil Georgia

1 month ago | civil.ge | Nini Gabritchidze

Has the leading demand of the Georgian resistance outlived its purpose?
Dispatch – March 16: Dog Days - Civil Georgia

1 month ago | civil.ge | Nini Gabritchidze

On March 12, the 105th day of nonstop Georgian protests, Skelo left the Rustaveli Avenue rally early. Evidence from friends’ messages suggests that the chubby, fluffy, grayish, short-legged, sad-faced stray dog was still at the parliament when protesters again blocked Tbilisi’s main street. But minutes later he was sitting alone around the Liberty Square metro station, about 300 meters down the road, listening with watery eyes to a street musician’s lonely guitar wail.
Dispatch – March 8: Broken Seatbelt - Civil Georgia

1 month ago | civil.ge | Nini Gabritchidze

It was a rainy and gloomy morning on October 26, 2024. I needed to catch a minibus back to Tbilisi after voting in a crucial “Russia vs. Europe” parliamentary election in my hometown in western Georgia, where I was registered. I was lucky to find a minibus quickly, unlike a trip from Tbilisi two days earlier, when an unprecedented transportation collapse nearly prevented western-Georgia-registered voters from exercising their constitutional rights.
Dispatch – March 1: White Snow, Red Coat - Civil Georgia

1 month ago | civil.ge | Nini Gabritchidze

Three months into the nonstop protests, one starts to recognize patterns. When cops show up with their faces covered, expect trouble. When protesters start walking around with disposable paper bowls, trace the scent for free hot soup. And if you see a moving bright circle surrounded by swirling dark dots—somewhat similar to NASA’s depiction of the Milky Way—it usually means one thing: Salome Zurabishvili has arrived on the scene. Not many others get that much attention these days.
Dispatch – February 20: Mzia and News - Civil Georgia

2 months ago | civil.ge | Nini Gabritchidze

On who is Mzia Amaglobeli, and why her“This is Batumelebi‘s office cat named News, who officially hates everyone and everything,” a colleague of Mzia Amaglobeli, an imprisoned journalist and founder of the Batumelebi and Netgazeti outlets, posted on Facebook in late January, attaching a photo of Amaglobeli with a stern-faced black cat sitting on her desk.
Dispatch – February 12: Aquarius Season - Civil Georgia

2 months ago | civil.ge | Nini Gabritchidze

77 days of protests – wins and loses on Ivanishvili vs Protests frontlineThe latest wave of pro-EU, anti-autocracy protests in Georgia has been going on for 77 days, and one of the things that keeps the resistance alive is imaginary deadlines. Previously, it was January 20, the inauguration of President Trump in the U.S., which Georgian Dream leaders hoped would turn things in their favor.
Dispatch – February 5: Law-Abiding Citizens - Civil Georgia

2 months ago | civil.ge | Nini Gabritchidze

8 Minutes is a Georgian apocalyptic sci-fi short film about humanity figuring out how to spend the last moments of daylight after learning that the sun has gone out. “The light we see right now will disappear forever in several minutes,” a TV presenter warns, as deadly chaos and panic erupt. The people have about 8 more minutes, the time it takes for the last sunray to reach the earth before the eternal darkness falls.