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President Salome Zurabishviliwelcomed NATO’s decisions on Ukraine, saying it would strengthen Ukraine’s security and resolve. “A strong alliance is the only path for Georgia as for Ukraine to enduring peace and freedom,” tweeted the president, adding that no Russian veto is to be allowed on the Euro-Atlantic choice of both countries.

Former US Ambassadors to Georgia issued a statement urging the Georgian government to allow “imprisoned and emaciated former President Mikheil Saakashvili to obtain life-saving medical treatment.” In a statement dated 10 July, the Ambassadors William Harrison Courtney (1995-1997), Kenneth Spencer Yalowitz (1998-2001), Richard Monroe Miles (2002-2005), John F. Tefft (2005-2009), and Ian C. Kelly (2015-2018), joined the international concerns following Saakashvili’s frail and decimated appearance during a remote court hearing.

The EU-supported medical mission, consisting of Polish doctors, was granted access to visit and examine ex-President Saakashvili’s health condition. Polish doctors are already in the “Vivamedi” clinic, visiting ex-President Saakashvili to conduct his medical examination. The Polish doctors are to determine whether Saakashvili receives adequate treatment at the clinic.

At a protest rally near the Culture Ministry, Georgian filmmakerspublished a manifesto, decrying the ministry’s destructive actions allegedly endangering professional freedom and promoting censorship. In a manifesto, filmmakers pledged “to laugh at the unqualified censors and their intention to tame Georgian cinema.” Filmmakers have been protesting targeted layoffs and reorganizations at the National Film Center for weeks, alleging that Culture Minister Tea Tsulukiani is trying to censor cinema and replace qualified staff with loyal ones. As the protest unfolded during the day, two more people were fired from the National Film C

Georgian Minister of Corrections, Probation, and Legal Assistance Khatuna Kalmakhelidze has resigned, one day after television channels controlled by political interests opposed to President Mikheil Saakashvili aired videos purportedly showing the abuse of prisoners at a jail in Tbilisi.

The demonstrations against the inhuman acts were held in several Georgian cities and towns.

At a demonstration against prison abuse in the capital on September 18, Shorena Shaverdashvili, editor in chief of Liberali magazine, noted that such abuse is endemic in the Georgian prison system.

“This is not the first incident of torture in prisons,” she said. “Year after year, there are documented cases in the ombudsmen's report about tortured prisoners. In last year's report alone, there are different identified cases of torture or mishandling prisoners. So this is really a continuation of a tendency and a really horrendous cont

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“Georgia’s greatest museum has been saved from demolition, apparently—but for how long?”
William Dunbar, Apollo

Procrastination can turn a small chore into an unmanageable nightmare. The Art Museum of Georgia in the Eastern European capital of Tbilisi houses the country’s finest collection of artworks, such as the Golden Fund of medieval Christian art, a large collection of Islamic Qajar portraits, and work by modern Georgian artists including the painter Niko Pirosmani. Many of the exhibits, however, have been either moved to other locations or closed to the public for over a decade. In the last few years this museum, built in 1835 in a neoclassical style and one of the oldest secular buildings in the country, has fallen into a shocking state of disrepair. Though the museum’s latest director, Nikoloz Akhalbedashvili, gave orders to evacuate the remaining objects and hand over the building to Georgia’s Ministry of Economy for possible demolition, the culture minister Tea Tsulukiani has finally agreed to spend “tens of millions” on the museum’s renovation. William Dunbar writes for Apollo that “many museum employees remain skeptical” given that neither Akhalbedashvili nor Tsulukiani has previous experience working in the arts.

“Churchill as villain—but is this a character assassination too far?”
Andrew Roberts, The Spectator (World Edition)

One Churchill biographer takes on—or rather, takes down—another in this sharp-tongued book review in The Spectator. To distinguish Churchill’s Shadow: An Astonishing Life and a Dangerous Legacy from the ever-increasing pile of Churchill biographies, the book’s author, the journalist Geoffrey Wheatcroft, puts particular focus on the various ways politicians have viewed or cited the wartime leader in the decades following his death as well as on the Britons who disapproved of Churchill in his own time. Andrew Roberts, whose 2018 single-volume biography Churchil