Antonia Langford

Dancing fabrics and contested poetry: inside Georgia’s resilient animation scene Georgian artists continue to demonstrate the medium’s capacity to spread joy, even amidst difficult political circumstances.

Recent piece for @ocmedia.bsky.social on Georgian animation, with photos by Poppy Askham:

oc-media.org/dancing-fabr...

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The Fontaine des Éléphants in Chambéry

The Château des Ducs de Savoie

A view of a street in Chambéry in the early evening

A statue of the de Maistre brothers

On my way back to Italy I stopped in Chambéry, capital of the Savoyard state before it was moved to Turin in 1562. If things had gone differently between 1500 and 1860, this could have been the capital of a small but significant bilingual European state, a sort of alpine Brussels...

16.08.2025 14:50 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 1

Ukraine war latest: Russia not serious about peace, says Zelensky Ukraine war news today: Zelensky holds talks in Istanbul — follow live

Who is Vladimir Medinsky, Russia’s chief negotiator in Turkey?

Read my mini profile of Putin's bespectacled aide in Istanbul in
@thetimes.com live blog as we keep you updated on the proposed Russia-Ukraine negotiations as they progress.

www.thetimes.com/world/russia...

15.05.2025 16:00 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Really pleased to have a piece in the most recent issue of
@indexoncensorship.org
about a cinematographer from Yemen and his beautiful film about music, resilience and joy

14.04.2025 10:34 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

His final photo was of the bomber that killed him: the last journalist to die before Assad fell Anas Alkharboutli was fatally injured in a missile attack just four days before the president fled to Russia. His colleagues and friends explain why his life was more exceptional than his death

His final photo was of the bomber that killed him: the last journalist to die before Assad fell

Anas Alkharboutli was fatally injured in a missile attack just four days before Assad fled to Russia. Colleagues and friends tell of his life.
@theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

06.03.2025 09:15 — 👍 23    🔁 12    💬 0    📌 1

An excellent and fascinating interview from @antonialangford.bsky.social and Ms. Magee! I would encourage people to read it to learn about culture and activism in #Belarus.
www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/03/02/m...

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‘My Plays Train the Audience To Stay Human’: Belarusian Playwright Andrei Kureichik - The Moscow Times “I hate theater,” reads the opening line of “Insulted.

"The biggest tragedy is that all of our mistakes could be possible again because we don’t remember. This play is a way of training the audience to stay human."

With Heather Magee, I interviewed the Belarusian playwright Andrei Kureichik for The Moscow Times.

www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/03/02/m...

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Israel has killed 110 Palestinians in Gaza since the ceasefire was announced, in case another reminder was needed of which lives matter and which don't. Fairly sure if 110 Israelis had been killed we wouldn't be hearing that the Palestinian groups had kept to the ceasefire deal

10.02.2025 20:10 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

‼️ Warning: The following content contains explicit wording.

Radio Liberty interviewed women after they had been arrested and collected the dehumanizing, insulting, sexually assaulting remarks and actions police officers used against them:

#TerrorinGeorgia 1/

07.02.2025 14:52 — 👍 98    🔁 45    💬 4    📌 1

Trump will now be judged like any other politician The abiding question for the 47th President of the United States of America is whether he now, after running against everything that counts as orthodox in the way of politics, has suddenly become a po...

"The conjuring trick, rhetorically, for every successful candidate is the extent to which he can maintain outsider status after an emphatic victory. That was the conundrum of Trump’s second inaugural."

✍️Our founder Philip Collins in The Spectator today:

www.spectator.co.uk/article/trum...

21.01.2025 11:56 — 👍 2    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

The Draft is now on Bluesky - give us a follow!

17.01.2025 13:03 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Georgia’s two presidents Georgia’s new pro-Moscow president is determined to fight his own people – meanwhile, his pro-EU predecessor has left office and gone into the streets to join the protests

Georgia’s new pro-Moscow president is determined to fight his own people – meanwhile, his pro-EU predecessor has left office and gone into the streets to join the protests

30.12.2024 15:53 — 👍 37    🔁 17    💬 1    📌 0

The diaspora Georgians fighting for their homeland Since ferocious anti-government and pro-EU demonstrations flared up in Georgia at the end of last month, some Georgians living across the world have returned to their country to take to the streets an...

#Background #stories | #GeorgianProtest #Georgia #SouthCaucasus #FBPE #NAFO
"The diaspora Georgians fighting for their homeland" by @antonialangford.bsky.social via @ocmedia.bsky.social
oc-media.org/the-diaspora...

26.12.2024 07:50 — 👍 18    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 0

On Day 21 of protests in Georgia, thousands are still gathering each night to demand a European future and protest disputed election results.

My piece in @prospectmagazine.co.uk today

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16.12.2024 15:52 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The diaspora Georgians fighting for their homeland Georgians living across the world have returned to their country to participate in anti-government and pro-EU demonstrations

"People are not scared — they’re getting angrier and angrier"

Posting this very belatedly, but proud to have written this for @ocmedia.bsky.social last week on the Georgians who travelled thousands of miles home to take part in protests.

oc-media.org/features/the...

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At the heart of the Cresta Court Hotel storm ‘Altrincham is a very pleasant community, but it’s never had anything to rattle it’

“People died on the journey here. Do you think we would take that risk for a free breakfast, lunch and dinner?”

My piece in The Mill on the asylum seekers housed in a hotel in Altrincham and the deluge of far-right activity surrounding their arrival.

manchestermill.co.uk/p/at-the-hea...

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