Huge Protests Sweep Across Tbilisi

Today we speak to Irish writer and artist Adam "Spicebag" Doyle. He's just got back from Northern Ireland, where residents of Portadown's Garvaghy Road are resisting an Orange Order march through their community. Decades after brutal violence over all this ended, old divisions ar ...  عرض المزيد

Today we speak to YPG fighter and asymmetric warfare researcher Karim Franceschi. He tells us, blow by blow, how he feels Rojava's administration allowed the SDF to crumble, leaving the people at the mercy of the jihadists… No ads and all exclusives: patreon.com/popularfront Disc ...  عرض المزيد

Mikheil Saakashvili, a former president, is seven weeks into a hunger strike and protests supporting him are proliferating. We ask where the country is headed. China’s state-sponsored industrial espionage is growing <a href="https://www.economist.com/china/2021/11/11/china-sti ...

Georgia's future is hanging in the balance. The former Soviet republic has seen mass protests for weeks, coming to a head today as riot police clashed with pro-European demonstrators after its parliament passed a controversial "foreign agents" bill which critics say mirrors a law ...  عرض المزيد

The introduction laws cracking down on supposed foreign agents has become a common tactic for autocratic leaders. Activists in Georgia, who oppose the introduction of such a law, refer to theirs as “the Russian law”. They see it as moving their country closer to Putin, and awa ...