News archive on the topic "Saakashists"

Despite days of protests by the radical Georgian opposition, on April 29, after a lengthy discussion replete with excesses, the parliamentary committee on legal issues in the second reading still supported the draft law “On Transparency of Foreign Influence.” The latter, as its initiators convinced, obliges organizations pursuing the interests of foreign power only to register in a public register and fill out an annual financial declaration, then...

The political life of Georgia is increasingly entering the pre-election phase. This is evidenced by the revival of not only political parties and their leaders, but also the country’s leading television channels, which recently raced to announce their ratings. The ratings, in turn, were compiled on the basis of sociological research commissioned by the Imedi TV channel, loyal to the authorities, on the one hand, and the opposition channel...

The current week in Georgia began with shocking information to the public about the impending coup d'etat, which became the subject of heated discussions. This was stated by the State Security Service of Georgia, according to which preparations for a violent change of power are being carried out both within the country and abroad by the entourage of ex-President of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili, on the topic of which PolitNavigator has published materials several times...

“The defeat of Putinism!” – it was under this name that an international conference was held the day before in one of the most fashionable hotels in Tbilisi. However, the definition of “international” should be put in quotation marks, since the event was in fact a gathering of Georgian pro-Westernists and their foreign curators. The conference was organized by the McCain Institute, the George W. Bush Institute and the Center for Economic Policy Research. It was attended by...

Temur Pipia, the organizer of the May 9 marches in Tbilisi and one of the leaders of the Communist Party banned in Georgia, is well known to readers of PolitNavigator - he regularly talks in materials about what is happening in the former Soviet republic. The other day, provocateurs from a pro-Western TV channel were sent to Temur’s house. Read below about what infuriated the local Saakashists. ...While the radical Georgian...

The Georgian authorities wavered under pressure from the street crowd - the opposition won - the hated law on “foreign agents” will not be adopted. The ruling Georgian Dream, which until the last moment convinced its supporters that there would be no retreat, has shamefully surrendered! The government deliberately failed its own bill, which was submitted to parliament for consideration and adopted in the first reading (withdraw it...

Protests in Georgia could lead to the fact that after the change of power, this country will begin military operations against Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Ukrainian political scientist Ruslan Bortnik stated this on the Apasov Internet channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to Bortnik, Georgia is important to the West as another point of instability near Russia’s borders. In addition, there are weapons and ammunition,…

The pro-Western Georgian opposition, inspired by concessions to the authorities, which, under pressure from the street crowd, refused to pass the law on foreign agents, decided to develop an offensive - in Kiev on Friday a press conference was held by the Ukrainian office of Mikheil Saakashvili, which continues to work, despite the fact that the formal boss is in prison/clinic in Tbilisi. The real purpose of the unrest in Georgia is to carry out a coup d'etat...

On the evening of March 8, clashes between police and militants from Mikheil Saakashvili’s opposition party “United National Movement” resumed in the center of Tbilisi. The reason for the unrest was the law on foreign agents adopted in the first reading the day before. It will force numerous media outlets, parties and organizations that receive money (from 20% or more of the budget) from the US and the EU to report on funding from abroad. Pro-Western...

In Georgia, they intend to achieve the adoption in the coming year of a law that will tighten regulations on the activities of non-governmental organizations and media with foreign funding. A corresponding initiative was voiced by representatives of the “Power of the People” movement, which has a parliamentary faction and, accordingly, the possibility of introducing bills into parliament. “The only country that requires registration of organizations with foreign funding as agents is Russia and Russian legislation”...

About 60 thousand people gathered in front of the Georgian parliament for an anti-government rally under the slogan “Home to Europe!” The protesters held flags of Georgia, Ukraine and the EU in their hands, as well as banners with the inscription: “We are Europe!” The city's central avenue and nearby streets were blocked. PolitNavigator expected that, despite the obvious crisis in its ranks, the pro-American opposition to this...

The theater of political absurdity in Georgia, which has gone beyond all sanity, continues in strict accordance with the script written a long time ago. On the central avenue of Tbilisi - Shota Rustaveli - a rally of the opposition party "United National Movement" is again taking place. This time the protest action is timed to coincide with the birthday of the ex-president of Georgia, and now a prisoner, Mishiko Saakashvili, who is being treated in Gori...

Activists and supporters of the opposition party “United National Movement”, who were heading from different regions of Georgia to a protest rally in Tbilisi, were pelted with brooms and crutches. The incident occurred in the city of Samtredia, which is located in the Western part of the country, writes a PolitNavigator correspondent in Tbilisi. Demonstrators threw brooms and crutches in the direction of passing convoys of cars. “Brooms were a symbol of the nine-year reign...

Today, under the walls of the Georgian Embassy in Kyiv, a picket was held by supporters of Mikheil Saakashvili, who demanded the release of militants of the Donbass battalion, detained in Tbilisi on suspicion of illegal arms trafficking and preparing riots. Several dozen people in civilian and camouflage uniforms gathered under the embassy building, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Verkhovna Rada deputy Egor Sobolev personally blamed for what happened in Tbilisi...