The new law targets specific protest behaviors. Demonstrators who cover their faces with masks, carry tear gas, block roads, or erect temporary structures during assemblies face administrative detention of up to 15 days. Organizers doing the same get up to 20 days. What triggers the harshest penalties Participating in aContinue Reading
On 4 October, twenty thousand Georgians tried to storm the presidential palace in what they called the “Revolution of Flags” in response to contested elections securing the pro-Russian party’s grip even further. Three days later, the regime charged five opposition leaders with attempting a coup d’état—crimes carrying up to nineContinue Reading
On 4 October, opera singer Paata Burchuladze stood before tens of thousands in Tbilisi’s Freedom Square and issued an ultimatum: Georgia’s government had 24 hours to surrender power. By dawn 5 October, security forces arrested all five protest organizers—Burchuladze, Irakli Nadiradze, Murtaz Zodelava, Paata Manjgaladze, and Lasha Beridze. By 6Continue Reading
A Romanian politician is warning that his country’s economic crisis has become a weapon in Russia’s hands—even as he breaks with his own party to call for sending troops to Ukraine. Claudiu Năsui, former economy minister and opposition MP, told Euromaidan Press that Romania should deploy forces to prevent RussianContinue Reading
On 28 September, Moldova faces one of the most consequential elections in its modern history—and Russia is spending $180 million, more than 1% of the country’s GDP, to manipulate the outcome. While the vote formally determines the composition of the 101-seat parliament, in reality, it will decide whether the countryContinue Reading