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Tamar Kintsurashvili

Tamar Kintsurashvili is the executive director of the Media Development Foundation (MDF) in Georgia. Kintsurashvili is also the chief editor of the fact-checking initiative Myth Detector.

Articles

Georgian students rally to protest the controversial "foreign influence" bill

Opinion: With elections ahead, Georgia stands between Russia and the West

by Tamar Kintsurashvili
Two years ago, a Georgian pro-Kremlin fringe channel aired a fabricated story featuring photoshopped images of several NGO representatives, including myself, in handcuffs at a fictional trial. This scenario, supposedly the result of a meeting between then-Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili and Russian President Vladimir Putin, was laughable at the time – a case of wishful thinking by pro-Kremlin actors. The current situation in Georgia is no longer a joke. The West’s first wake-up call