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Mariam Nikuradze

Mariam Nikuradze is the co-founder and executive director of OC Media, a Tbilisi-based news site covering the North and South Caucasus.

Articles

U.S. President Donald Trump on March 3, 2025.

Trump’s aid cuts could trap Eastern Europe in a disinformation bubble

by Mariam Nikuradze
Georgia is in a grim state. Once vibrant, welcoming, and hopeful, it has become a country where peaceful protesters are beaten and journalists are branded as traitors. Over the past year, the ruling Georgian Dream party has stifled civil society and media with its foreign agent law, extended its reign for another four years through a rigged election, and announced it would “suspend” efforts to join the EU. In the Georgia of 2025, war is called peace, and slavery is called freedom. Disinformati