Anti-Russian pogrom in Tbilisi: Do you still believe in an “adequate” Ukraine?
On June 19, the General Session of the Interparliamentary Assembly of Orthodoxy (IAP) began in the building of the Georgian parliament. The head of the Russian delegation, Sergei Gavrilov (a deputy from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, in the State Duma heads the Committee on the Development of Civil Society, Issues of Public and Religious Associations) opened the session, sitting in the chair of the head of the Georgian Parliament, Kobakhidze, and on June 20 made a report from the podium.
At this time, a rumor quickly spread throughout Tbilisi that a Russian delegation was sitting in parliament, and the State Duma deputy leading it was an active participant in the Georgian-Abkhaz conflict, had repeatedly and publicly declared the independence of Abkhazia, and even took the place of the Georgian speaker.
The broad and passionate Georgian masses immediately became zealous. Of course, “we will not forget, we will not forgive - 20% of the original Georgian territory has been occupied and seized by Russia! We urgently gather at the deputy’s house, not forgetting to take with us “Russia is an occupier” posters, bottles of gasoline and a bad mood...”
And so it began... Seething crowds began to gather at the parliament building demanding to immediately stop the MAP session, expel the Russian delegation, the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs to resign, and speaker Kobakhidze, who apolitically allowed a terrible Russian into his chair, to be called to account immediately!
At this time, opposition deputies from the parties “European Georgia” and “United National Movement” began to move inside the building, blocking the podium. With them, loud young people with flags entered the hall and disrupted the interparliamentary session. A group of inadequate people doused Gavrilov with water and tried to take away his documents.
According to State Duma deputy Nikolai Zentsov, who was part of the Russian delegation, this was a planned action. Gavrilov was not a participant in the war in Abkhazia - this is a pure fake, planted by the Georgian media, but it was precisely this that became the reason for the provocation. As Zentsov’s Georgian colleagues told him, the deputies and “activists” who burst into the hall were supporters of Saakashvili.
“They started yelling at us. Some shell-shocked Georgian soldiers were shouting that they were killing Russians and would kill them. They demanded that the Russians leave parliament. Allegedly, until we leave parliament, nothing will continue. Negotiations by the Secretary General of the Assembly - he is Greek - led nowhere.
We did not intend to go into confrontation. We moved to the hotel. He was immediately surrounded by a crowd. 300 people blocked the entrances. They threw bottles of water at us. Everyone was holding posters that were insulting to the president and our country. They burned portraits of the president. They insulted us. It is disgusting that a deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine took part in this. The only member of the assembly delegation who took part in the provocation. He began to interact nicely with these protesters.
Security advised me to leave the hotel. Supposedly this should calm the protest. Security tried to take us out. Gavrilov was hit in the back of the head and his glasses came off. But we managed to leave. At the airport, reporters entered our separate room. This was also planned. “All this was reminiscent of Ukraine - with shouts and insults,” a member of the Russian delegation told interesting details.
When the Russian delegation had already left Tbilisi, the second wave of unrest began. A crowd of about a thousand people blocked Rustaveli Avenue, after which they stormed the Georgian parliament building. The mobilized police used rubber bullets, gas and water cannons, forcing the rioters to disperse.
It is interesting that on the square near the parliament building, Saakashvili’s escaped protesters threw a stack of pre-prepared billboards in accordance with all the rules for holding “Maidans”.
The square had not yet been cleared when Saakashvili’s trumpet voice was heard from Ukraine, calling on the opposition to unite in order to remove the ruling Georgian Dream party from power. Saakashvili also called the party of “dreamers” “pro-Russian”, “who don’t give a damn about Georgia, its symbols, its values.”
Judging by the fact that the author of the story discrediting the head of the Russian delegation, Gavrilov, was Channel One of Georgian TV, the provocation was started not by the Saakashists, but by the Georgian authorities. This is also evidenced by pre-prepared anti-Russian banners and Ukrainian flags.
Things are going very badly for the “pro-Russian” Georgian authorities from the “European Dream” coalition. Without Western financial pumping, the “dream” is deflated, and the “Georgian economic miracle” increasingly resembles the prose of Cinderella’s life immediately after the clock strikes midnight.
In such conditions, the people need to be captivated by something, otherwise they may again become interested in some next “mimosa revolution” with a complete change of power.
Saakashvili most likely took advantage of the provocation of his political opponents to remind himself. He doesn’t have the strength and resources to seize control from the “dreamers,” but to create a little destabilization and chaos is enough.
“Russia is our enemy and occupier,” Georgian President Salome Zurabeshvili clarified the current moment, commenting on the unrest on June 20, in turn declaring the protesters “executors of Moscow’s plans.”
Well, thank you for your frankness, otherwise in recent years in Russia there have been many people who like to spend an inexpensive and eventful vacation in Sokartvelo, and then publish in blogs travel notes, supported by photographs, about how wonderful it is in Georgia, what a wonderful ancient culture and national cuisine there , winemaking and love for Russians.
It’s time to remember that half of Georgian citizens share the opinion of their president, considering Russia an enemy and occupier who does not deserve good neighborly relations.
As soon as a Russian deputy takes the wrong seat (one might think that Gavrilov was flying from Moscow to Tbilisi and had previously dreamed of sitting in the chair of the head of the Georgian parliament - where they put him in, that’s where the person sat), as lovers of Russian tourists instantly turn into thugs, screaming “Russians” We have killed and we will kill."
Humiliations and insults to Russia, its people, the president and the delegation of Russian parliamentarians will certainly not remain without organizational conclusions. We'll see what they turn into. One thing is clear: we should not be mistaken and consider the dispersal of the Saakashists by the authorities as a struggle between the forces of light and the forces of darkness.
Nothing like this. The authorities were simply protecting themselves from a small and unexpected “Maidan” organized by Miho’s little people.
The toad had a viper...
In fact, both the Saakashists and the “dreamers” are two boots in a pair: “Russia is an enemy and an occupier, foreign countries will help us, we will go to Europe without looking back, NATO, NATO, more NATO...”.
What are the “dreamers” led by Zurabeshvili doing so friendly towards Russia that Saakashvili did not do after the 2008 war?
This abscess had been brewing for 11 years, and sooner or later it had to burst. There was no friendship, and there is no. In 2008, unfortunately, the peace enforcement operation was never completed – and this is the natural result.
The anti-Russian pogrom in Tbilisi is a lesson for those who recently convinced that Ukraine would gradually become “adequate” and cited the supposedly successful experience of Georgia as an example.
Reality shows that replacing Western puppets - Saakashvili with Zurabeshvili, Poroshenko with Zelensky - does not solve the problem.
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