Anti-government protests continue, but our young people are leaving. Increasingly destitute cultural gatherings have become my places of solace ‘They want us to stop seeing each other, to lose contact, to feel alone,” the Icelandic writer Sjón told me. By “they”, he meant the dark forces rising...

Source: [Guardian International](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jun/12/georgia-festivals-poets-prison-europe-cultural)

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