Camera journey update: went from "let me try this" to hiking up every hill in Tbilisi for night shots 📷⛰️ Something about capturing the city lights from above just works 🌙 Still figuring it out but the progress is real 📈 Vlogs on the horizon?! 👀✨ #Tbilisi #Georgia

South Caucasus economic update 🇬🇪🇦🇲🇦🇿 The World Bank has raised Georgia’s 2026 growth forecast to 7%, while Armenia also remains strong and Azerbaijan is expected to grow more slowly. At 7%, Georgia is also forecast to grow faster than every other EU candidate country 🇪🇺

Georgia leads in basically every global index, but Brussels still hands the “progress” trophy to Moldova. Make it make sense.🧐

Motsameta Monastery, near Kutaisi 🇬🇪 Not my best edit, but luckily the place does most of the work. 😄

Georgia’s “radical opposition” is holding a rally in Tbilisi, calling it the beginning of a new wave of protests and demanding the release of Mikheil Saakashvili. 🙂🇬🇪

Georgian media have revealed an unpublished IRI poll reportedly commissioned by the opposition itself. Georgian Dream: 36%, 55% after allocation 8 opposition parties combined: 16% Media reports describe it as GD’s highest IRI result and the opposition’s lowest. And despite commissioning the poll, the opposition reportedly never published it. That is quite a contrast with the image projected abroad of a country supposedly united behind endless anti-government protests. Street optics and international headlines are one thing. Actual support inside Georgia is another.🙌🏻🇬🇪

33 years ago today, Sukhumi fell. This photo carries pain, but also a hope that no generation should ever have to leave home this way again. May the future of Abkhazia be one of peace, reconciliation and people finding their way back to one another. 🇬🇪🕊️

“English learned in Russia” 😂 Georgian opposition TV has invented a whole new language just to mock PM Kobakhidze. The guy studied in Georgia and Germany. But why let geography get in the way of a little Russophobia.

Happy Independence Day, Armenia! 🇦🇲 Different stories, many of the same challenges. Georgians understand that better than most.🇬🇪 Peace and strength to our neighbors. 🤝

Yesterday, Georgia witnessed a rather bizarre alliance. Alt-Info’s anti-“Arabization” crowd and parts of the so-called pro-European opposition are now speaking the same language against one of the largest foreign investments in Georgia’s history. We have seen this movie before. When a Chinese company built the Olympic Village, we heard about the “Chinese takeover.” It was even claimed that 127,000 Chinese people would be settled there. It never happened. Then came Namakhvani. A huge protest campaign surrounded the $800 million project, it collapsed, and Georgia is now fighting a $350 million + interest arbitration award. Now a UAE company wants to build a luxury development in a largely undeveloped part of Tbilisi and suddenly Georgia is being “Arabized.” To me, the pattern is becoming hard to ignore. Whenever Georgia is trying to strengthen its economy, energy security or international position, groups that claim to be ideological opposites somehow end up on the same side, together with foreign-funded NGOs and activists.

Millwall vs West Ham never disappoints. What a game! 🔥

Georgian pro-EU activist Nata Peradze left Georgia saying she feared repression. Now she says she is facing a criminal case in Berlin over an alleged Facebook insult. What an irony🙃🇬🇪🇩🇪

Forget Patriot missiles. Saakashvili sang the Ukrainian anthem in court. Ukraine has received the support it was waiting for🙌🏻

First China. Now MAGA. EU Enlargement Commissioner Marta Kos says candidate countries should cut ties with Donald Trump’s MAGA movement if they want to join the EU. She has also warned about China’s growing influence in candidate countries. For Georgia 🇬🇪 the message from Brussels is becoming clear: they want to decide who we can work with. Russia is the enemy. China is a problem. MAGA is now an “adversary.” Georgia is a sovereign country. We should choose our partners based on our own interests. @realDonaldTrump 🇬🇪🇺🇸

🇨🇳 China has become Georgia’s largest foreign investor.

🇦🇲🇪🇺 Pashinyan promised Armenians visa-free travel with the EU by 2029. Now Brussels says it’s “too early” to confirm any such date. I said from the start this whole pro-EU line was being oversold. Pashinyan needed the promise. Brussels needed Armenians to believe it.

Quite a sight in Georgia today. A rare waterspout formed over the Black Sea off the coast of Adjara. 🌪️🇬🇪

🇹🇷 Turkey is considering full membership in the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, the China and Russia-led bloc. Erdoğan says this would not mean breaking with NATO or the West. If it happens, Turkey would be playing both sides of the emerging multipolar world, something very few countries have the leverage to do.

Azerbaijan’s President Aliyev saw Iran’s President Pezeshkian drinking Georgian Borjomi and immediately went into sales mode 😂 “You drink Georgian water. Try Azerbaijani water too.” He then offered him a bottle of Istisu (Azerbaijani mineral water).