Very disappointed to see @europeelects.bsky.social now charges for private non commercial access to their polling data. This is a step backwards and a restriction of information flows. They also say they will process in 7 days when the data used to be available directly on the website.

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Limiting it to slow official institutional email addresses is also a backward step in a world full of freelance journalists and independent researchers, never mind the modern world.

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If they’re having trouble covering hosting costs let me know and I’ll create a public GitHub repo in which the data can be stored.

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Update: Saakashvili’s lawyers and other sources confirm he’s had a health-related accident but the severity of it seems to be managed and Saakashvili is said to be relatively okay now.

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Marina Terishvili, a heroine Georgian mother. Her son was killed by the military junta in the 1990s for carrying a flag of Georgia, and her other son is a political prisoner of the current Russian regime in Georgia. “Freedom to Giorgi Terishvili,” her banner says. 📷 MOSE

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