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mariacallous · 3 months

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In April 2018, I was invited by the American ambassador to a meeting at the embassy in Tbilisi, Georgia. The ambassador had assembled a group of nongovernmental organization (NGO) leaders in the field of disinformation to meet with a senior Trump administration official from the State Department. He asked us to describe the main narratives of Kremlin disinformation. As the director of a large international democracy organization, I highlighted Russia’s manipulation of gender and LGBTQ issues to sway Georgians away from the perceived “cultural decadence” of the European Union. The official’s frustration was palpable. His response, tinged with irritation, was telling: “Is that all you people can talk about? The gays?”

A year before, several international organizations partnered with Georgian parliamentarians on a gender equality assessment, supported by several government donors. This collaboration led to an internal conflict. The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) wanted to scrub the original report, as it covered abortion, notably legal in Georgia, while the Swedish government and other stakeholders wanted the complete assessment. As a result, at the time of its release, two distinct reports had to be printed, one with references to abortion and one without.

Former U.S. President Donald Trump emerged victorious from last week’s New Hampshire primary and is likely to be the Republican Party’s presidential nominee. His closing statement in New Hampshire praised Hungarian leader Viktor Orban, who embraces the oxymoronic term “illiberal democracy” while suppressing independent media, civil society, and courts. He has repeatedly emphasized the glory of strongmen like Orban. His foreign policy has been clear: stopping support for Ukraine, NATO, and our European allies.

But while there has been plenty of analysis of Trump’s America First impact on foreign policy and security, less covered is how it will also completely redefine foreign aid as well as the liberal democracy agenda. My experience with the first Trump administration as a senior leader in democracy organizations receiving funding from USAID provides some insight into the foreign-aid agenda of a second, but likely only scratches the surface of what is to come.

The Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, established in 2022, offers a detailed roadmap for revamping USAID under Trump—one that will undermine, eliminate, and censor the critical work of thousands of people and organizations committed to building more just societies. The Heritage Foundation has been staffing and providing a pipeline of ideas to Republican administrations since President Ronald Reagan. Project 2025 is a plan to shape the next Republican administration, and its funders have close ties to Trump. The project’s objective is to replace “deep state” employees with conservative thought leaders to carry out an executive-driven agenda.

In the overview, the project articulates its goal to end what it calls USAID’s “divisive political and cultural agenda that promotes abortion, climate extremism, gender radicalism, and interventions against perceived systemic racism.” A key component of the illiberal playbook is to attack gender and marginalized communities, an early warning sign of democratic backsliding. Illiberal strongmen, such as Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Russia’s Vladimir Putin, exploit traditional hierarchies to divide society and create pecking orders of power. Russia refused to sign, and Turkey withdrew from, the Istanbul Convention, a commitment to protect women from domestic violence. The Narendra Modi administration in India filed an affidavit in the Supreme Court against criminalizing marital rape, arguing it would destabilize marriage. Hungary and Poland lobbied to ban the term “gender equality” in international agreements and implemented anti-LGBTQ policies, including local municipalities adopting “LGBT-free” zones as part of a government-supported “Family Charter” in Poland.

As a first step, Trump’s USAID will “dismantle” all diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives, which Project 2025 calls “discriminatory.” This mandate includes firing the chief diversity officer and all advisors and committees. In 2016, the Obama administration issued a DEI presidential memorandum to ensure USAID, among other agencies, had a diverse and representative workforce. Trump scaled back these efforts. On Jan. 20, 2021, Biden’s first day in office, he signed an executive order that demanded that government agencies devise strategies to tackle DEI issues. Pursuant to this, USAID Administrator Samantha Power signed USAID’s DEI strategy on her first day in May 2021. Project 2025 would reverse this strategy, requiring USAID to “cease promotion of the DEI agenda, including the bullying LGBTQ+ agenda,” which entails support for organizations overseas that work on these issues.

According to Project 2025, Trump’s new USAID will also eliminate the word “gender” full stop, arguing that “Democrat Administrations have nearly erased what females are.” This is bizarre, as I have decades of experience receiving USAID funding for numerous programs to advance women in political life and support women’s organizations. Working for democracy organizations across Asia and the former Soviet Union, I saw USAID provide critical support to expand women’s wings of political parties; recruit women election officials, observers, and administrators; train women’s advocacy and rights organizations; and build women’s committees in parliaments.

The Heritage Foundation report also accuses USAID of “outright bias against men,” an equally strange claim; in fact, gender realignment was needed and implemented. A Trump USAID will fire more than 180 gender advisors and points of contact, who work alongside USAID colleagues “to integrate gender and advance gender equality objectives in USAID’s work worldwide,” and scrub the words “gender,” “gender equality,” and “gender equity” from all documents. This would require a massive purge of decades of USAID materials and websites.

USAID has spent years incorporating gender into all aspects of its programming to ensure the agency addresses the needs of women, including unique development obstacles they face. Removing a gender lens would take us back in time to programming that often harmed women, inadvertently, by failing to analyze the varying effects of programming based on gender and power dynamics in different environments. To erase all of USAID’s tools, learning, and research on how to ensure best practice would have dangerous consequences. For example, when I worked for USAID in Cambodia in the 1990s, the agency supported micro-lending for small community projects, in which most of the loans went to women. This resulted in increased domestic violence, as men were angry about the financial imbalance in the home. Today, USAID has gender analysis and research on risk factors to mitigate against such outcomes.

Relatedly, a Trump USAID will make anti-choice “core” to its mission, removing all “references to ‘abortion,’ ‘reproductive health,’ and ‘sexual and reproductive rights.’” Project 2025’s blueprint singles out specific organizations and U.N. agencies to target and defund. Further, the president himself would have the ability to oversee programming directly: “Current law in the Foreign Assistance Act gives the President broad authority to set ‘such terms and conditions as he may determine’ on foreign assistance, which legally empowers the next conservative President to expand this pro-life policy.” Previous administrations have restricted funding to organizations that provide abortions (the “Mexico City Policy”), which resulted in an increase in maternal and child mortality and unsafe abortions—exactly what the policy claimed to want to prevent. In sub-Saharan Africa, data shows the policy increased abortions by defunding clinics that provided family-planning services. The first Trump administration expanded restrictions further, impacting speech and service delivery around the world.

A Trump USAID would not only stop funding local partner organizations that support gender, LGBTQ, and rights agendas but redirect that money to religious organizations. In fact, it would mandate training and indoctrination for all USAID staff on the link between religion and development. USAID would also ensure conservative oversight of all grantmaking to ensure against “progressive policies” and a “radical agenda.” USAID already engages with faith-based partnerships, alongside secular NGOs, but Project 2025 would like to shift the balance, creating a “New Partnership Initiative” that would help prioritize religious groups.

A stated “key outcome of the transformation of USAID” under Trump will be a complete revamp of the Bureau for Democracy, Development, and Innovation, shifting its focus to trade, the private sector, and religious communities, and purging staff. Importantly, all directors of each center—not just the assistant administrator—will have political leadership, not career experts. In addition, Trump’s USAID will rewrite all policy “as soon as possible” to ensure a conservative agenda.

During the first Trump administration, I felt the impact in my work overseas. I worked closely with the LGBTQ community in Georgia, which faced horrific obstacles—ostracization, violence, homelessness—and which was targeted relentlessly by Kremlin information operations. USAID has long been a defender of human rights and funded projects on these issues. There was a shift under Trump, though I applaud individual USAID employees for creatively trying to find workarounds and continue support—like slight renaming of initiatives or cleverly filing them under more favorable, broader categories like “human rights.” They no doubt prevented damaging cuts to our important work.

I am far more worried about the impact of a second administration. Back then, there was no concrete, detailed roadmap like Project 2025 and no massive replacement of foreign aid professionals with conservative political operatives. Under a second administration, under Schedule F, Trump has planned a sweeping political takeover of our civil service, stripping civil servants of protection, forcing them to implement his political policy agenda, and giving the president unilateral power to fire employees at will.

The organization I now work for, the German Marshall Fund, supports hundreds of civil society organizations across the Balkans, Black Sea region, Ukraine, and Central Europe—thanks to more than a decade of USAID support. USAID has encouraged our goals of promoting democracy; bolstering the rights of women, LGBTQ, and other marginalized communities; and deterring illiberalism through independent media, watchdog organizations, and information integrity efforts. We do this through grantmaking, capacity-building and technical assistance, leadership programs, and policy dialogues.

With democracy in global decline and illiberal strongmen on the rise, we need these efforts more than ever. Backsliding elsewhere affects democracy everywhere. America benefits from strong, free, liberal societies—it is in our national interest and key to our global security and order. While few voters go to the polls with foreign aid on their minds, the consequences for millions of people worldwide are on the ballot this November.

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panelki · 1 year

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To Europe “po Blatu”

It seems that less-than-democratic regimes in the Balkans and the Caucasus are entertaining the feeling that Victor Orban’s Hungary represents their access point to the European Union on their own terms. We are witnessing the revival of a very Soviet concept of “blat” on European soil. Anyone who has lived, even for a fleeting moment, in the Soviet Union is familiar with the concept of “blat.” Linguists say the concept was apparently born in the Russian Empire’s petty criminal underworld and denoted a person, who, while not being part of the thieving enterprise, could provide vital information or access to coveted property. In Soviet gulags, the meaning of “blat” changed : it now meant someone in the prison system who was willing to provide access to goods or privileges that inmates were not allowed. As the gulag subculture and jargon expanded throughout the Soviet Union, to get things “po blatu” (or “through blat”) evolved to mean accessing goods and services that ordinary Soviet citizens were not entitled to — from toilet paper to caviar to Bolshoi theater tickets — through a conveniently placed facilitator or intermediary. Today, European Union membership is one such coveted privilege. Yes, it can be accessed legally, but many entrenched regimes would prefer not to pay the high price of adapting their system of governance — simply because the rule of law, free elections and free media might mean the demise of their own rule. So they seek a roundabout way. Enter Victor Orban, self-professed ideological architect of another, “illiberal” Europe — “the Dark Continent” to borrow the title of Mark Mazower’s excellent historical review, which argues that nothing was preordained in the emergence of democratic Europe, and that another European ideology — of petty nationalisms, fascism, and authoritarianism - was just as potent. True, Hungary was a functioning democracy when it entered the European Union. But as it stands now, Budapest is a beacon of hope for all those profiteering leaders convinced that all the talk of rule of law, human rights, and freedoms emanating from Brussels is just empty ideologized banter — just like the communist ideological cliches were in the late Soviet period. They hope their man on the inside — one Mr. Orban — could unlock the door from within, providing access to the coveted structural funds and other EU goodies that could cement their regimes for posterity, by preventing the collapse of badly managed economies. But can Orban do that, really? Given the EU’s complex decision-making structure, especially when it comes to membership, the correct answer is probably “no”. But in this game, just as often in politics, perception matters more. Accession to the EU is a multi-stage process. Given that EU membership is popular with electorates — for political, but also mercantile reasons - clearing each stage brings electoral benefits to the ruling parties and politicians, not to mention the ideological boost. By showing they advance toward the EU without changing their ways, they can demoralize the opposition and further undermine it electorally. This was apparently the thinking of Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili when he rolled out the red carpet in Tbilisi to EU Enlargement Commissioner Oliver Varhelyi in mid-November. Mr. Varhelyi is known as Orban’s close ally. He has been called “Orban’s man in Brussels” by respectable Deutsche Welle, and even the “Voldemort of enlargement” by no less respectable Politico. The Georgian and Hungarian prime ministers signed a declaration of “strategic partnership” in October, and Varhelyi has met Garibashvili, who governs the country on behalf of his boss, oligarch Bidzina Ivanishvili, on at least four occasions in one year. Oliver Varhelyiand Irakli Garibachvili, in November. // Varhelyi’s Twitter account As always, the tone was cordial, with the Commissioner pointing out that “the economy is apparently doing great” judging by the capital’s main throughfare, and ducking questions about the ruling party pressuring the opposition. Yes, he paid pro forma lip service to the reforms necessary for Georgia to get the status of a candidate state. But the main thrust of his commentary was about ensuring connectivity — oil and gas pipelines, and perhaps internet cable — to authoritarian Azerbaijan, which has become an energy lifeline to the EU. Garibashvili has been irritated by hundreds of thousands of Georgians hitting the streets over the summer when his government failed to secure the candidacy alongside Ukraine and Moldova. Tbilisi’s official line on the war in Ukraine repeats almost word for word Orban’s own messaging about his government securing “stability and security.” Just like Hungary’s ruling “Fidesz”, the ruling “Georgian Dream” has articulated the message about the “duplicitous western conspiracy” to use Ukraine as an armed stick to beat Putin’s Russia with. Kim Lane Scheppele demonstrated brilliantly how that message helped Orban defeat the united opposition in the last elections and to cement his power to the extent that it no longer seems to be possible to unseat him through constitutional means. Now Mr. Ivanishvili aims to keep Garibashvili’s unpopular government in place by using similar tactics. Georgia is not the first to try and use the Hungarian “blat”. Serbia’s authoritarian ruler, Aleksandar Vucic, has taken many a leaf from Orban’s playbook. He has also courted Commissioner Varhelyi to advance on the EU path, while muzzling the media, bullying the opposition, and staying as ambiguous as possible about Putin’s regime. Dysfunctional politicians in Bosnia and Herzegovina have tried to do the same. Where does this leave the European Union? Of course, Mr. Orban’s motives are not altruistic. He has been the enfant terrible of the EU for a while now, at odds with Brussels on too many counts. The front he put up together with Poland to protect himself from tougher EU sanctions has weakened considerably, as Budapest increasingly diverged with Warsaw on Russia. But helping Brussels out in getting Azerbaijani oil and gas may compensate that damage somewhat, while grooming the regimes in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, and Georgia as potentially grateful candidates may bring dividends down the road. This is a dangerous path for the internal coherence of the European Union as a value-based alliance of states. If the ability of Ukraine to resist the Russian aggression has demonstrated anything, it is that cohesion based on values is not only ethically admirable, but it also underpins the state’s resilience against undemocratic foes. The Ukrainian resistance — and Putin’s brutal recklessness - has opened eyes wide shut in the Western capitals to the expediency of admitting new members. But admitting governments that cynically defy the EU’s own rules would only boost the pattern of “negative convergence” where increasingly seasoned European democracies come to resemble dysfunctional central and Eastern European polities. It seems now that Europe is aware of the challenge. The European Commission has blocked €7.5bn in cohesion funds to Hungary, while the European Parliament’s Committee on Foreign Affairs has requested an investigation into the conduct of Commissioner Varhelyi for “deliberately seeking to circumvent and undermine the centrality of the rule of law reforms in EU accession countries.” Does this signal the end of the authoritarian and oligarchic “blat” in Europe? Anything is still possible.

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( V1 : Gun for hire )

After seven and a half years serving her country at the highest level accessible to women, it was over before she had a chance to work out how. Coming through the injury that put an end to her career without an addiction to narcotics or any more serious damage should be considered a fresh start, and yet Alex feels like she’s free falling.

Now, she’s a highly trained rescue and record specialist with a background in military intelligence. And there’s plenty of people who would pay for a skillset like that- especially in cash and beneath the table.

LOCATION: Alex is living in London, but will travel across mainland Europe as needed.

OCCUPATION: Freelance security specialist

HOW TO CONTACT: There are a few trusted people who have fallen into her line of work that can recommend her. They’ll often direct you to a pub near the Edgware road called The Swing (The Dead Man’s Swing, hidden beneath an arch in Connaught Place).

( V2 : Shoot to kill )

She should have died in that hole in Tbilisi. Maybe she did. Maybe this is death. Maybe this is hell and it’s all the pain and suffering she deserves. After being held captive for eighteen months and finally working back to full strength, Alex is at the beck and call of a criminal madman in London who goes by the moniker of M. She’s only met him twice, and that was twice too many.

KNOWN AS: Moran.

LOCATION: Willing to travel.

OCCUPATION: Weapon.

HOW TO CONTACT: Don’t. She’ll find you.

( V3 : Dirty business )

There are people the government calls when they need a mess cleaned up. Untraceable. Untraceable. People who have nothing to lose. And it’s a long story as to how Alex Moran ended up on that list.

Too well trained to be wasted behind bars, Alex is living out the last of her ‘ten year’ sentence doing whatever queen and her majesty’s intelligence service deem necessary. She isn’t there to question orders, or leave any footprints. Sure, it would be nice if she could finish out her ten years in peace, but lately the missions have been getting closer and closer than comfortable. There’s a high likelihood they’re hoping a dead girl tells no secrets.

KNOWN AS: Grey.

LOCATION: Alex is living in Highbury, London- off of Highbury fields.

OCCUPATION: Unassigned Agent of MI6

HOW TO CONTACT: Alex is wanted dead or alive by several gangs, criminal masterminds and governments globally. Usually attached to a different name and blurry CCTV image. The list of people who know she’s even alive is small, but she frequents a small coffee stand on Highbury Fields and orders a Black Americano every time she’s in town.

#( INFO : details )#( V1 : Gun for hire )#( V2 : Shoot to kill )#( V3 : Dirty business )

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amprosite · 9 months

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“Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye.” -Proverbs 7:2 We all know that American law is predicated upon Common Law, God’s Torah. We also all know in this country that sodomy is against God's law. Furthermore, He calls it an abomination (Leviticus 18:22, 20:13). The whole agenda is

#torah

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crimerecords-info · 1 year

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April 9 - National Unity Day of Georgia

The Day of National Unity of Georgia (the Day of National Unity, Civil Accord and Remembrance of those who Died for their Homeland in Georgia) was declared a public holiday after the events of April 9, 1989, known as the "Night of Sapper Shovels".

In March 1989, Abkhazia announced its intention to secede from Georgia and become a separate union republic. In response to this, a wave of unauthorized rallies swept through Georgia. On April 4, under the leadership of one of the leaders of the Georgian national movement, Zviad Gamsakhurdia, an indefinite rally began in Tbilisi, which from April 6 began to take place under anti-Soviet and anti-communist slogans. This scared the local authorities, and they turned to Moscow for help, asking for military assistance. It was decided to involve the motorized rifle regiment of the Dzerzhinsky Division of Internal Troops in the dispersal of the rally. During the day, cadets and army units were transferred to Georgia.

The operation to suppress the demonstration began around four o'clock in the morning on April 9. The commander of the Transcaucasian Military District, Igor Rodionov, ordered the ousting of the demonstrators from the square. Armored vehicles moved to the Government house, followed by fighters. Rubber batons, tear gas, and sapper shovels were used. The demonstrators began to leave the square, but almost all exits from it were blocked by vehicles, which sharply reduced the escape routes, panic and a massive stampede arose. The result of this special operation was the death (according to official data) of 19 people. Of these, 17 are women.

After this tragedy, the Georgian government was forced to resign, and confidence in the head of the USSR Gorbachev and the central authorities was finally undermined.

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swldx · 1 year

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9915Khz 0359 8 MAR 2023 - BBC (UNITED KINGDOM) in ENGLISH from TALATA VOLONONDRY. SINPO = 45433. English, dead carrier s/on @0359z then ID@0359z pips and newsday preview. @0401z World News anchored by Gareth Barlow. Protesters have clashed with police in Georgia's capital, Tbilisi, after parliament backed a controversial draft law which critics say limits press freedom and suppresses civil society. There has been widespread international condemnation of the bill, which would require non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and independent media who receive more than 20% of their funding from abroad to declare themselves as foreign agents. Rishi Sunak has said he is "up for the fight" to bring in new legislation to prevent migrants crossing the Channel on small boats to reach the UK. It is not just opposition MPs who have criticised the plans. The UN's refugee agency, the UNHCR, said the proposed legislation amounted to an "asylum ban". The U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee voted on Wednesday along party lines to give President Joe Biden the power to ban Chinese-owned TikTok, in what would be the most far-reaching U.S. restriction on any social media app. Five women who say they were denied abortions in Texas despite facing life-threatening health risks have sued the state over its abortion ban. According to the lawsuit, doctors are refusing the procedure even in extreme cases out of fear of prosecution. Cyclone Freddy is expected to make landfall again in Mozambique later this week after it struck Madagascar for a second time on Monday. In recent years, people around the world have lost hundreds of millions of dollars to online romance scams. One of the most lucrative of these, being run by criminal gangs across South East Asia, is called the “pig butchering romance scam”. The scammers refer to their victims as pigs, whom they fatten up to be "butchered" - or conned, out of as much money as possible. A BBC World Service investigation has spoken to former insiders, who reveal the brutal conditions facing many of those working as scammers and the sophisticated techniques that are used. Twitter chief executive Elon Musk has apologised over an exchange he had on the platform with an employee. It came after worker Halli Thorleifsson tweeted to Mr Musk saying: "Your head of HR is not able to confirm if I am employed or not". Mr Musk responded by asking: "What work have you been doing?" After a series of follow up questions and answers Mr Thorleifsson said he received an email confirming that he had been fired. Mr Musk followed that Twitter conversation with a tweet on Tuesday describing Mr Thorleifsson as "the worst" before deleting it. @0406z "Newsday" begins. Backyard fence antenna, Etón e1XM. 250kW, beamAz 315°, bearing 63°. Received at Plymouth, United States, 15359KM from transmitter at Talata Volonondry. Local time: 2159.

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magicalthoughtsendinterriblefics · 4 years

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Baghdad gone wrong - Request

Request: @green-spotlight I was wondering if you could do a Sherlock x wife! reader one? Where, instead of Mary jumping in front of Sherlock, Reader does, but she survives

Word count: No idea, but it’s long.

Warnings: (Y/N) gets shot.

A/N: HI! Long time no see. I know I always say I’ll come back and then I disappear but it’s just because I need a job and I have to look for it and bla bla bla. Anyway, here it is. This one is fresh, it’s the first fics I’ve written in months (the past ones were kept in my drafts) so I hope you like it and I hope I’m not too rusty for this.

Enjoy!

The London aquarium was quite a flabbergasting experience to anyone who visited. The big tanks filled with different fish, the blue illumination, and the distinctive smell of chlorine made it a rather peaceful place to meditate.

“Ladies and gentlemen, the Aquarium will be closing in five minutes. Please make your way to the exit. Thank you.” The voice from the tannoy announced.

Sherlock ignored it and kept going onward along the blue-lit corridors, through the glass tunnels, up until an area with benches for people to sit. There, a lonely woman sat tranquilly.

“Your office said I’d find you here,” he said.

“This was always my favourite spot for agents to meet,” the woman replied. “We’re like them; ghostly, living in the shadows.”

She finally looked at him.

“Predatory,” Sherlock granted.

“Well, it depends which side you’re on.” She turned away to look into the shark thank again. “Also, we have to keep moving or we die.”

“Nice location for the final act. Couldn’t have chosen it better myself. But then I never could resist a touch of the dramatic.” Sherlock cocked his eyebrow, rejoicing in his own skin.

“I just come here to look at the fish,” the secretary said.

How dull she was, how boring. Sherlock was starting to get sick just by the mere existence of that woman. It was obvious to him what was going on, and yet there was no one else to show it off to. Where were his companions? He had texted them not longer than five minutes ago the exact location and they weren’t there just yet.

“I knew this would happen one day,” the secretary continued. She stood up and took a few steps closer to the tank. “It’s like that old story,” she said. She turned to face him.

She was small, just small. She was not a beautiful woman and evidently never had been, she was poorly-dressed, and her whole body expressed how small she was and felt.

It was no wonder to Sherlock why she had done it. She was a nobody, always had been and always would be. She worked for a powerful, beautiful woman who was a constant reminder of how insignificant she was. Of course, she had done it.

“I am a very busy man. Would you mind cutting to the chase?” Sherlock insisted. A rush inside of him needed the whole thing to end quickly.

“You’re very sure of yourself, aren’t you?”

“With good reason,” Sherlock said precisely. “Unlike you,” he thought.

“There was once a merchant in fa famous market in Baghdad…” The woman started.

Sherlock closed his eyes and lowered his head. It was that bloody story again. What was it with people liking it? Perhaps it was the fact that nobody wants to be entirely responsible for their acts and decide to call them upon fate, or just that dumb believing of superior power. In any case, Sherlock was sick of it.

“I really have never liked this story” he sentenced.

“I’m just like the merchant in the story. I thought I could outrun the inevitable. I’ve always been looking over my shoulder; always expecting to see the grim figure of…”

“Death.” A third voice completed.

(Y/N).

The rush inside Sherlock increased its intensity. She wasn’t supposed to be there, John and Mary were but not her.

She entered the room and stopped a couple of feet away from Sherlock’s side.

“Hello, love,” Sherlock greeted without looking at her.

��Hey,” she greeted back.

“John?”

“On his way,” (Y/N) replied.

“Mary?”

“On her way.” Sherlock shrugged and attempted no to look scattered. She was not supposed to be there. “Who am I looking at?”

“Let me introduce Amo.”

(Y/N) opened her eyes widely. She knew all about that time, Mary had told her just before escaping to try and fix things.

“I can’t say I’m impressed,” (Y/N) said. Sherlock chuckled at the thought of how obvious it was, feeling good that his partner had caught it too. “So you were Amo? You were that voice on the phone?”

“Using AGRA as her private assassination unit,” Sherlock completed.

“Why did you betray them?” (Y/N) grunted. She could be too emotional sometimes. “Do you know what you caused? The people you hurt? Do you know how that ended? WHY DID YOU BETRAY THEM?”

“Why does anyone do anything?” The secretary asked, knowing well what she had done. She didn’t seem to regret a single thing.

(Y/N) was fuming, Sherlock could hear her breathing and was getting ready to stop her in case she tried to punch the secretary.

“Let me guess,” he said in an attempt to control the room. “Selling secrets?”

“Well, it would be churlish to refuse,” the secretary admitted and Sherlock couldn’t blame her. “Worked very well for a few years. I bought a nice cottage in Cornwall on the back of it. But the ambassador in Tbilisi found out. I thought I’d had it.” She looked towards (Y/N) before returning her gaze to Sherlock. “Then she was taken hostage in that coup,” she laughed. “I couldn’t believe my luck! That bought me a little time.”

“But then you found out your boss had sent AGRA in,” Sherlock stated. He finally had an audience to show off with.

“Very handy,” the woman replied in a bitter tone. “They were always such reliable killers.”

“What you didn’t know, (Y/N), was that this one also tipped off the hostage-takers,” Sherlock explained to (Y/N). “Actually,” he said, “I don’t think Mary knows that either.”

The secretary sat back down and rested her handbag on her lap.

“Lady Smallwood gave the order, but I sent another one to the terrorists with a nice little clue about her code name should anyone have an enquiring mind.” She was proud of her doings. “Seemed to do the trick!”

“And you thought your troubles were over.” (Y/N) was furious.

“I was tired; tired of the mess of it all,” she sighed. “I just wanted some peace, some clarity.”

(Y/N) was about to go on and punch the light out of her, but Sherlock stopped her before she had even given two steps forward.

“The hostages were killed, AGRA too…” She looked across to (Y/N), “or so I thought. My secret was safe. But apparently not. Just a little peace. That’s all your friend wanted too, wasn’t it? A family, home. Really, I understand.”

(Y/N) glanced across to Sherlock, but his gaze was fixed on the secretary who lifted her handbag as if in preparation to stand, and rests one hand on the open top of it.

“So just let me get out of here, right? Let me just walk away. I’ll vanish. I’ll go forever. What d’you say?”

“After what you did?!” (Y/N) roared furiously. She once again started walking towards the woman.

“(Y/N), no!” Sherlock yelled. That’s why he didn’t take her to her cases.

In a fluid moment, the secretary stood up, pulling a pistol from her handbag and aiming it at (Y/N), who stopped and backed away.

(Y/N) considered her options for a second before obliging. “Okay.” She moved back to stand at the other side of Sherlock.

The secretary stopped pointing with her pistol and looked at it as if it was a toy.

“I was never a field agent. I always thought I’d be rather good.”

(Y/N) scoffed. She was upset and she knew they were wasting their time by trying to reason with her. She never understood why Sherlock insisted on talking to the criminals first.

“Well, you handled the operation in Tbilisi very well,” Sherlock complimented and (Y/N) rolled her eyes.

“Thanks.”

“For a secretary.”

(Y/N) and the secretary looked at him with wide eyes.

“What?” The woman frowned.

“Can’t have been easy all those years, sitting in the back, keeping your mouth shut when you knew you were cleverer than most of the people in the room,” he blurted out.

“I didn’t do this out of jealousy!” She defended herself.

“No?” Sherlock smirked. “Same old drudge, day in day out, never getting out there where all the excitement was. Just back to your little flat on Wigmore Street.”

The secretary gaped.

“They’ve taken up the pavement outside the Post Office there. The local clay on your shoes is very distinctive.”

The woman looked down to her dusty shoes. She looked like a rag, no wonder why he thought she was jealous.

“Yes, your little flat.”

“How do you know?”

Sherlock was ready for a quickfire session to kill time and show off to the woman he married. He cocked his head and smirked as if he had already won.

“Well, on your salary it would have to be modest and you spent all the money on that cottage, didn’t you? And what are you? Widowed or divorced?” He focused in on a plain gold band on the index finger of her left hand. “Wedding ring’s at least thirty years old and you’ve moved it to another finger. That means you’re sentimentally attached to it but you’re not still married. I favour widowed, given the number of cats you shared your life with.”

(Y/N) watched the woman closely. She knew that look, that void of fear, that confidence. The woman wasn’t shaking, nor she was feeling vulnerable. No, she was starting to burn in anger. She was a crazy woman who thought she was better than anyone else, of course, she would burn if anyone told her she was anything less than that.

She hadn’t done it out of jealousy, she had done it because she could.

“Sherlock…” (Y/N) warned.

“Two Burmese and a tortoiseshell, judging by the cat hairs on your cardigan,” Sherlock continued. “A divorcee’s more likely to look for a new partner; a widow to fill the void left by her dead husband.”

“Sherlock, don’t,” (Y/N) insisted with a louder tone.

But instead of listening, Sherlock rose his voice ad he got fully into his stride. “Pets do that, or so I’m told, and there’s clearly no-one new in your life, otherwise you wouldn’t be spending your Friday nights in an aquarium. That probably accounts for the drinking problem too: the slight tremor in your hand… The red wine stain ghosting your top lip. So yes. I say jealousy was your motive after all - to prove how good you are...”

The secretary turned to gaze at the entrance as Mycroft walked in.

“... To make up for the inadequacies of your little life.”

The secretary was still looking at the entrance. Inspector Lestrade came in followed by three uniformed police officers.

“Well, Mrs Norbury. I must admit this is unexpected,” Mycroft said, hiding away his true feelings.

“Vivian Norbury, who outsmarted them all,” Sherlock slurred, dripping in sarcasm. “All except Sherlock Holmes.”

He took a step forward, holding out his left hand. (Y/N) and the police officers behind her also stepped forward.

“There’s no way out,” he whispered.

“So it would seem,” Mrs Norbury smiled. “You’ve seen right through me, Mr Holmes.”

“It’s what I do.”

She tilted her head to one side. “Maybe I can still surprise you.”

Swiftly, she brought up the gun and aimed it at Sherlock. Everyone got defensive instantly.

“C’mon,” Lestrade pointed at her, “be sensible.”

Sherlock held his hands out to the side. Mrs Norbury shook her head.

“No, I don’t think so.”

She fired. The bullet headed towards Sherlock who stood there unmoving. (Y/N), who had no doubt anticipated that this was going to happen, hurled herself sideways in front of him and the bullet impacted her lower chest. Blood sprayed outward and immediately there was a large bloodstain on her shirt. Crying out, she fell to the floor against a nearby bench.

“Surprise,” Mrs Norbury said, filled with spite.

(Y/N) rolled over to slump against the back of the bench, gasping in pain. As two of the police officers hurried over to Mrs Norbury to disarm her, Sherlock stared at (Y/N) in shock, then dropped to his knees to press his gloved hand against the wound. She looked up at him, her eyes wide, and whimpered.

“Everything’s fine. It’s gonna be okay,” he whispered. “Get an ambulance!” He commanded, looking round to Mycroft.

“You are such a cock,” (Y/N) whimpered.

“I know,” Sherlock smiled sadly. “But now, dare I say it, it’s not about me.”

“What do I do now, detective?”

Sherlock started checking her frantically just as John ran in. Without asking any questions, he checked her too and laid her down on the floor.

“It’s all right,” Sherlock kept saying, “it’s all right.”

“You can do better than that,” (Y/N) groaned and John kept track of her vitals.

“Like what?”

“Like what about you shut up next time?” Sherlock chuckled and nodded.

“Noted,” he said. “Anything else?”

“If I don’t die…” She started and Sherlock interrupted her.

“Which you won’t.”

“IF I DON’T DIE,” she insisted, “I want you to be more loving towards me.”

“What?” Sherlock frowned and John laughed. “No.”

“Oh, oh, I think I’m losing her,” John joked, “(Y/N), stay with us!”

“Okay, fine,” Sherlock agreed. “But only when we’re alone.”

“That’s not how it works,” John coughed.

“It is how it works!” Sherlock cried.

“It’s not!” Mary laughed and kneeled down next to (Y/N), helping John to keep her stable while the ambulance arrived.

“You two are too nosey,” Sherlock mumbled.

“Loving, you must be loving at all times or I’m going to die,” (Y/N) repeated. She was falling unconscious, so John and Mary urged Sherlock to keep her awake for just a couple of minutes now.

“Okay, what else?” Sherlock asked, “What else, (Y/N)?”

“Breakfast… in bed…” She mumbled.

“I already do that!”

“For me… breakfast in bed… for me,” (Y/N) insisted.

“You are such a cock” John mocked Sherlock.

“Yes, I’ve been told that twice in the last minute.”

Mary laughed and so the paramedics got there.

When (Y/N) woke up, she was surrounded by people. Mrs Hudson, Molly, John, Mary, and obviously Sherlock.

“We’re so glad you’re awake.”

“How are you feeling?”

“Look at you!”

All of them, talking to her nonstop. She only nodded and smiled, not knowing who to reply to first.

Her room was filled with flowers and balloons, and the dim light of midday snuck through the window, making it warm and cosy. She didn’t feel a thing because she was doped, but she faintly knew (by what she could catch hearing at least) that she had gone to surgery.

“I’m glad you’re awake and fine,” Sherlock said after everyone shut up.

“That’s all?” She complained.

John hit Sherlock slightly. The detective rolled his eyes and pulled out little cardboard cards from his pocket. He cleared his throat and started reading in a painfully monotone voice.

“My love, I am delighted for your recovery and I can’t wait for you to come back home to me. I’ve missed having you in my arms, smelling your hair in the morning, and just looking at your… bright, beautiful eyes every day. You are my soulmate, and the thought of losing you was so painful I knew right then and there that I… Nevermind that part, it’s bullshit,” he skipped three cards while everyone else either rolled their eyes or chuckled at him. “You are the love of my life… My best friends… Kiss, kiss, kiss… Er… The message is clear I think.”

“That’s all?” (Y/N) asked again.

Yes, she had technically forced him to date her, and then to marry her, and she had kind of manipulated him to promise her to be more loving, so she couldn’t really complain if he didn’t get it right the first twenty times, but she was the one laying on a hospital bed because he couldn’t get his head out of his own arse!

Sherlock exhaled heavily and looked around. Curious and impatient eyes were all over him, making feel terribly uncomfortable.

“The thought of losing you is unbearable, I was very anxious during your surgery and have been like that up until now that you’ve woken up,” he admitted.

“He also spent the night right here,” Mrs Hudson added. (Y/N) then noticed an unused blanket by the visitor’s sofa.

“Thank you, Mrs Hudson,” Sherlock groaned and gave (Y/N) a cheeky look. “I’m not good with words, but do know that I’d be damned if you, my wife, died.”

“How romantic!” (Y/N) smirked sarcastically. Sherlock eyed her, knowing she was just messing with him.

“I love you, I truly do.”

“And I love you,” (Y/N) said.

Sherlock then walked closer to her and kissed her softly on the lips. “Don’t ever follow me on a case, please.”

“I can’t promise you that.”

“Then don’t jump in front of me if I get shot.”

“Better you stop being a massive cock, ey?”

“I can’t promise that.” Sherlock smiled.

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It is an ongoing war between Azerbaijan and armenia. War zone is defined, and Azerbaijan with its military forces and army is fighting against armenian army and militaries. AGAINST ONLY MILITARIES! Not civilian population. Fearing the Azerbaijans military power, Armenians, realizing that they will not be able to fight against the army, commit terror acts against the civilian population of Azerbaijan. The Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil/gas pipeline, which has strategic importance in the region, was recently attacked with missiles by armenians! The goal is to divert the Azerbaijani army from war with terror, and continue to occupy the lands belonging to Azerbaijan! Now... Everyone whoever supports Armenians is as criminal and terrorist as they are! Supporting armenia is promoting terrorism an racism. #dontbelievearmenia

#KarabakhisAzerbaijanDontBelieveArmenianchildkillerArmenianStopAgressionArmenian

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Georgian woman ordered detained for defacing Stalin icon in Tbilisi

Feb 2 (Reuters) - A court in Georgia has ordered five days' detention for a woman who defaced a religious icon depicting Soviet leader Josef Stalin, an act which ignited large protests last month in the capital Tbilisi, her lawyers said.

The Georgian Young Lawyers' Association confirmed in an email to Reuters that Natalia Peradze, also known as Nata, was convicted on Friday of petty hooliganism.

A thousands-strong protest erupted in mid-January to demand harsh punishment for Peradze, who was accused of splashing blue paint onto an icon on display in Tbilisi's Holy Trinity Cathedral in an act of protest.

A side panel of the icon includes a depiction of the Georgian-born Stalin - an avowed atheist who violently repressed religion across the Soviet Union - being blessed by St Matrona of Moscow, a Russian Orthodox saint, during World War Two.

The icon was subsequently removed from the church following the controversy, Georgian media reported.

Peradze's lawyers added that they had requested a temporary measure of protection last week due to numerous death threats against her.

"After pouring paint on an icon depicting Stalin, Natalia Peradze's life and health were threatened, as she received numerous threatening messages on social networks and violent groups were mobilized near her residence," Veriko Jgerenaia of the Georgian Young Lawyers' Association said.

Orthodox Church activists and believers as well as far-right groups have agitated for Peradze to be subject to further criminal investigation for what they say was an act that insulted the icon and their beliefs.

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What Secrets Do Foreign US Bio Labs Hold? Secret US bio laboratories are strewn across multiple countries in Africa, Asia, and even Europe. This is a global problem that is the attention of various media outlets as of late. More and more frequently, the numerous articles published on this issue voice questions such as: what secret programs (even supported by the country they are located in) are these US military bases pursuing? What if they are concocting a biological weapon to be used on their opposition, and are they the ones behind this entire coronavirus pandemic in the first place? Emerging from recent discussions on whether the coronavirus is natural or artificially altered, comes information that CDC biologists from the US have been conducting unstable experiments on bats, which nearly all sources agree, trace back to the origin of the virus. They were raising and incubating entire colonies of bats, infecting them with deadly viruses, to study how the carriers of many infections handled them, and how infections can spread. The NCBI website has actually published three scientific works on the experiments carried out by CDC biologists involving infected bats, who have significant populations in South Africa, Egypt, Turkey, and across Asia. The first scientific work on this topic was published in 2015, while the latest – in 2020. In particular, these experiments by CDC biologists and the Pentagon were a joint effort involving colleagues from the Ministry of Defense (sic!) were conducted in 2017, while research on bats passing the infection to people was partially mentioned in March 2020. The results of completed experiments were similar: bats carry viruses, never get sick themselves, but can pass them on to humans. We know that the USAID’s (who has undeniable ties with the Pentagon and CIA) EPT program was launched in 2009. It was to support United States monitoring and laboratory opportunities in the chosen nations for studying wildlife and people coming in contact with animals, to discover new and already known virus agents, that can present a serious threat to people’s health. In Asia especially this program took root in Thailand, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Vietnam, and China. In China, for instance, partners of this program were chosen by the government program of the Wuhan institute of virology, and the American non-government organization – EcoHealth Alliance. The specifics of what the Americans were into in Wuhan can be partially found in several scientific works posted on the NCBI website. Of course, the true secrets behind such deals are never made public. Thus, China became a complete doormat for American biologists testing viruses. However, many countries have been manipulated in such a way. US military bio laboratories work on creating bacterial weapons in the Ukraine, stated Renat Kuzmin from the Oppositional Platform for Life. He thus confirmed, as did Ukrainian political figure Aleksander Lazarev the criminal activities of 15 bio labs sanctioned by the Pentagon on Ukrainian soil. Kuzmin noted that they are carrying out intelligence measures, as well as creating bacterial weapons and testing several harmful diseases on Ukrainians. Ukrainian MPs Victor Medvedchuk and Renat Kuzmin sent a formal complaint to the UN for US bacterial labs illegally functioning on Ukrainian soil. In recently increasing wave of protests against the activities US bio labs in Ukraine, experts note that in 2001, the US declined to sign an international protocol naming 33 microorganisms as potential agents of biological warfare, suddenly finding 37 articles that were not in the interests of the United States, obviously creating a loophole for themselves to continue secret bio weapon work on foreign soil. The media has repeatedly published material proving a number of incidents with dangerous viruses and toxins, leading to the death of innocent citizens in countries unwittingly hosting secret US bio labs. A significant amount of such materials has been on a US bio laboratory named the Lugar Research center (Alekseevka, Tbilisi), confirming the concerns about illegal US activities in Georgia. Secret experiments are being conducted at the facility. Some research is even done on people, who are isolated in special units and subsequently infected with the most dangerous diseases. “The proof of this lies in the experiments carried out in this bio lab directed towards using insects as carriers for highly dangerous biological agents, and infections, as well as equipping weapons with poisonous substances and infected agents,” read a statement on the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation’s website. Since 2008, the Pentagon has created nearly a dozen bio labs in Armenia. Reports in local media reveal that the research involves pathogens that have long been studied by DARPA as potential bio weapons: anthrax, brucellosis, plague, African swine fever and tularemia. Armenia is a country that has witnessed sparks of mutating viruses over the past ten years, that have also spread through all of Transcaucasia, giving the Pentagon sufficient proof of concept of how bio weapons might work naturally, both on Russia’s southern border as well as in Iran. Pentagon bio laboratories in Armenia employ a number of US military contractors, the foremost of which being CH2M Hill, which has already spent $50 million from DTRA in 2018. CH2M Hill is famous for organizing bio labs in Georgia, Uganda, Tanzania, Iraq, Afghanistan and southeast Asian countries. CH2M Hill’s sub contractors have expressed significant interest in Black&Veach, which runs US bio labs in Ukraine, Germany, Azerbaijan, Cameroon, Thailand, Ethiopia, and Vietnam. Namely, the Battelle Memorial Institute and Southern Research Institute. Both companies are old partners of the Pentagon and CIA. Between 1952 and 1996, the Battelle Memorial Institute acquired 11 US army contracts and still conducts research and tests with the use of extremely toxic chemical substances and pathogenic bio active substances. One of Battelle’s joint operations with the CIA is Clear Vision in 1997 and 2000, while low caliber bomb with anthrax was constructed as part of the operation to study the spreading principles of the virus after an explosion. This shines a light on the data from a partially classified presentation of the US Minister of Defense in 1981, where the economics of the three scenarios of possible biological attack in a big city are laid out. 16 simultaneous attacks using infected yellow fever mosquitos through the air and aerosol attacks with spraying tularemia will lead to minimal losses. If 625,000 deaths occurred, the Pentagon would lose 29 cents per person. This is why the activities of secret US bio labs located in numerous nations worldwide as well as proof of private company’s involvement such as CH2M Hill, Battelle, Metabiota and a number of others conducting research on dangerous anthrax bacteria, tularemia, hemorrhagic fever and a whole range of harmful viruses cannot go on unnoticed, and should be presented to the international public.

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10 MOVIES WORTH CHECKING OUT - NORTH AMERICA RELEASES FEB. 2020

And Then We Danced (2020) dir. Levan Akin - A passionate coming-of-age tale set amidst the conservative confines of modern Tbilisi, the film follows Merab, a competitive dancer who is thrown off balance by the arrival of Irakli, a fellow male dancer with a rebellious streak. In Theaters:Feb 7, 2020 - RT & IMDb

Cane River (1982*) dir. Horace B. Jenkins - A racially-charged love story in Natchitoches Parish, a "free community of color" in Louisiana, a forbidden romance lays bare the tensions between two black communities, both descended from slaves but of disparate opportunity. *This lyrical, visionary film disappeared for decades after Jenkins died suddenly following the film's completion, the movie is now available for the first time in forty years. In Theaters:Feb 7, 2020 - RT & IMDb

Come to Daddy (2020) dir. Ant Timpson - A man in his thirties travels to a remote cabin to reconnect with his estranged father. In Theaters:Feb 7, 2020 - RT & IMDb

The Lodge (2020) dir. Severin Fiala, Veronika Franz - A soon-to-be stepmom is snowed in with her fiancé's two children at a remote holiday village. Just as relations begin to thaw between the trio, some strange and frightening events take place. In Theaters:Feb 7, 2020 - RT & IMDb

The Photograph (2020) dir. Stella Meghie - A series of intertwining love stories set in the past and in the present. In Theaters:Feb 14, 2020 - RT & IMDb

Corpus Christi (2020) dir. Jan Komasa - Daniel experiences a spiritual transformation in a detention center. Although his criminal record prevents him from applying to the seminary, he has no intention of giving up his dream and decides to minister a small-town parish. In Theaters:Feb 19, 2020 - RT & IMDb

Premature (2020) dir. Rashaad Ernesto Green - Seventeen year old Ayanna meets handsome and mysterious Isaiah in her path towards self-discovery. Her entire world is turned upside down as she travails on the rigorous terrain of young love on the summer before she leaves for college. In Theaters:Feb 21, 2020 - RT & IMDb

Vitalina Varela (2020) dir. Pedro Costa - A Cape Verdean woman navigates her way through Lisbon, following the scanty physical traces her deceased husband left behind and discovering his secret, illicit life. In Theaters:Feb 21, 2020 - RT & IMDb

Blood on Her Name (2020) dir. Matthew Pope - A woman's panicked decision to cover up an accidental killing spirals out of control when her conscience demands she return the dead man's body to his family. In Theaters: Feb 28, 2020 - RT & IMDb

Saint Frances (2020) dir. Alex Thompson - After an accidental pregnancy turned abortion, a deadbeat nanny finds an unlikely friendship with the six-year old she's charged with protecting. In Theaters:Feb 28, 2020 - RT & IMDb

#movies #film #cinema #movie releases #feb 2020 #february #saint frances #blood on her name #vitalina varela #premature #corpus christi #the photograph movie #the lodge #come to daddy #cane river #and then we danced

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BASIC INFORMATION:

NAME: Elene ‘Lenny’ Dadiani. AGE: 35. PLACE OF BIRTH: Zugdidi, Georgia. AFFILIATION: Neutral. OCCUPATION: Political journalist. FACE CLAIM: Lauren German. AVAILABILITY: TAKEN.

BIOGRAPHY:

(Warnings: Suicide mention.)

Growing up in 90s Georgia wasn’t something one could’ve considered a carefree childhood. The country had just won back the independence from the crumbling walls of the Soviet Union. Crime, drug, and unemployment rates were at an all-time high. Anyone with a remote connection to powerful people could have wielded a gun and ran amok to terrorise the neighbours who weren’t as “lucky.”

Yet, somehow, Elene’s parents managed to shield her and her older brother, Niko, from the nightmare. Their childhood was spent playing and reading books together, and the evenings, when often the electricity would go out, the whole family would gather around the fireplace and listen to their father’s tales of how he travelled all over the Soviet Union as a young diplomat. They were almost poor, but there was always food on the table and wood in the fireplace. In a small town in Western Georgia, that was as good as it got.

Things finally turned around with the change of government in 2003 and the country started to function as a normal one. That was the year when she moved to the capital city of Tbilisi. Now a student of social sciences, Elene was witnessing how her country started to blossom. Soon after she finished university and started an internship for the national news channel, her brother was excelling at his military career. Life was finally good.

Little did she know, her life as she knew it, would end in less than a year.

It was the summer of 2008. She and her brother were visiting family friends in London when Elene saw the news: Her home country was under attack. Russian bombers were burning villages to the ground. Their parents called and forbade them to come back until the war was over. Their hometown was the nearest one to the Russian border.

“We’re packing our things, we’ll be staying with my sister up in the mountains,” their mother tried to sound calm, “don’t you dare board that plane. We’ll be fine.”

But Niko wouldn’t hear it. He hopped on the first plane home and joined his battalion. Elene was left behind in London.

The war didn’t last long. On August 12th, then president of France, Nicolas Sarkozy brokered a ceasefire between Russia and Georgia. But the agreement wasn’t honored and the troops remained. People died.

They found out a few days later how Niko had passed away. People called them “the heroes of Shindisi.” A 17-member detachment of Georgian soldiers came face-to-face with Russian soldiers in Shindisi Village. Niko was one of them. The Russians greatly outnumbered the Georgian side and advised the Georgians to surrender, but they refused. The uneven battle continued for several hours. Despite being greatly outnumbered, Georgia inflicted significant damage on their enemy. Finally, they ran out of bullets. In the end, there was only one soldier standing, Niko. Others were either dead or too wounded to walk. They’ve all heard the legendary cruelties that Russians inflicted upon hostages. Niko knew what he had to do. For a split second, he considered running away, but he shook his head, sat on the ground, said a prayer and blew himself and others up. Leaving his men behind to fall into enemy’s hands would’ve been fate far worse than death.

Soon after, her parents sold all of their belongings and moved to England. From the day she heard how her brother died, she decided to fight against violence and injustice in every way she could. Her parents chose quieter life in the countryside, where they could forever mourn the loss of their son. Lenny, however, remained in London to start her journalistic career. Now she works at BBC as a reporter. The politicians are not fond of Lenny, knowing her questions are always hard to answer. She had received threats on numerous occasions, but she simply doesn’t have it in her to hold back.

Whilst Lenny’s focus revolves mainly around Westminster and exposing compromised or inadequate MPs without a shred of mercy, she finds herself more and more curious to widen her investigative horizons after she had heard the whispers of legendary French Criminal Organisation arriving in London.

SOCIAL CONNECTIONS:

RELATIONSHIP STATUS: Single. FAMILY: Niko Dadiani (brother, deceased) CONNECTIONS:

Cassandra Acton: Close friend. Their friendship blossomed naturally, as both of them found themselves agreeing with one another on almost all important matters. She admires her determination and hard work. Many in her place would’ve crossed their legs and let their position as the Prime Minister’s sister open up all doors for them. But not Cassie - something Lenny appreciates.

#taken #takenf #elenedadiani #lauren german #neutral

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thegulag-2022 · 2 years

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Day 8

Thursday 3 March 2022- day 8th of terrible, criminal Putin’s war in Ukraine.

I have started this blog as a Russian citizen, enraged and despaired at my government’s terrible actions on the soil of Ukrainian people, against ordinary innocent people.

I am also despaired about my government’s actions inside Russia, against its citizens.

This blog will be focused on what is happening inside Russia, and the absuses of civil rights of Russian citizens by our state.

I am going to document all civil rights abuses of my government against its people, for the international friends of mine to follow, and know about.

You will read how everyday, we, ordinary Russians, are entering Archipelago Gulag 2022, Orwell’s worst nightmares, North Korea 2.0.

I am keeping my identity anonymous, for safety reasons. PLEASE KEEP MY IDENTITY ANONYMOUS, IF I WILL FORWARD YOU A LINK TO THIS BLOG.

I am really scared.

Yesterday we have learnt from an independent Telegram channel that Billingcat (a reputable international private intelligence agency) uncovered that:

1) Putin is prepared to use nuclear weapon against Ukraine and/or the West, if he doesn’t achieve his preliminary war goals. He is hiding in a large bunker-city in the Ural region. During isolation period of the pandemic, he has become increasingly paranoid. He has prepared this war in advance, shared his plans to his immediate circle in December 2021, and have scared them. The war is his idea and plan. He doesn’t listen to his advisors. He rules by fear, and they toe the line, reporting him only what he wants to hear.

2) He has also planned to install a total dictatorship in Russia in 2022. Tomorrow (4th of March 2022) the government will announce MARTIAL LAW in Russia. That means :

Restriction of freedom of movement. Closed borders from tomorrow.

Restriction on financial transactions (already Russians are prohibited to transfer money abroad, and to transfer money to support organisations that help Ukranians)

Prohibition on public events (we are already prohibited to protest, or gather outside in groups without prior approval from the state)

Military curfew

Suspension of activities of public organizations and political parties (already in use)

Suspension of civil law (in reality, it has long been so)

I feel scared and sick to my stomach, especially about the closing of our borders...

The Iron Curtain is closing, the next station is Gulag.

Lots of Russians who read independent Telegram and Twitter channels are getting out of country, right at this moment. Many left yesterday. They are taking flights to Istanbul, Turkey, Erevan, Armenia and Tbilisi, Georgia. Upon leaving the country, some of them were questioned by the border officials. They were asked about their political views, the reason they are going abroad and asked to let the border police check their phones and laptops (Mediazona, 2 March 2022).

I also want to leave Russia. I was thinking of going to Tbilisi, Georgia. But I consulted with my family and they said they don't want to let me leave now, because it might not be safe to be abroad, in Georgia, alone.

I am scared they will close the borders tomorrow and will lock us all in (for how long? for many years?). My chest is gripped by a tight sensation.

At the same time, I realise, lots and lots of Ukrainians are leaving their country as refugees right now. According to the UN Refugee Agency, 1 million of Ukrainians have already left the country. They are going to Poland, Moldova, and to other places in Europe, including Georgia. They will need accommodation and resources to survive. They need it more than me, so I don’t want to take up someone’s space and a chance to be abroad.

I decided to stay for now, save up money and write about what the state is doing to Russian people. I hope I will be able to leave in half a year. I am scared we will have locked borders for many months, years, decades (?). I am scared to be locked out of the free world. I am scared I won't be able to see my friends abroad ever again, I won’t be able to travel. I am scared to be pressed upon for my views, arrested and prosecuted.

I will further document news from inside of Russia, the blatant lies of our state officials in their press releases and statements, the lies and propaganda of our official state channels, the protests against the war, new restrictive laws on the freedom of speech, new closures of independent media channels, blocking of social media, new punishments by the state, mass firings from government jobs for speaking out about the war, and what people on the ground do to resist the oppression.

Thank you for following my blog.

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