Tbilisi, Georgia…
Watching multiple videos on TikTok from Georgia and getting goosebumps. Russia will never win. We stand together against tyranny and totalitarianism. And for those who’ll say it’s another “CIA sponsored coup” — good luck being on the wrong side of history.
So what’s going on? Last year, the Georgian Dream party attempted to pass a foreign agent law modeled on the Russian one. It’s excellent marketing because the bill will criminalize many actions by regular people. It will also put an end to a free press.
Yes, it will do in Georgia what it did in Moscow. Last year, this bill stopped when Georgians in the tens of thousands took to the streets. At this point, the best window into some of this is on Twitter, which is brilliant.
One of the participants posted this. There is a video attached so that you can watch it, too:
“Our government isn’t helping us to be free in our own country. We really need worldwide help.”
Tbilisi Protesters #NoToRussianLaw
Follow @GAMZIRI24
Yes, European diplomats are already on the ground using diplomatic language to tell us there is a political earthquake underway:
“The climate in Tbilisi is very tense. There is escalation and polarization. I urge everyone to lower the temperature. This is a very unhealthy situation.”
Oh, these eternal lovers of calm 🤷♀️
➖ European Commission Director General Gert Jan Koopman arrived in Tbilisi to discuss enlargement issues and found himself in the midst of protests over the law on foreign agents.
He reiterated that the bill as it stands is incompatible with EU values. “I hope it can still be changed,” Koopman said. He said that he had frank conversations in Tbilisi, both with the president. Same with the Prime Minister.
Koopman also emphasized that the EU Transparency Directive is a completely different type of law and references to it in the context of the Georgian bill are inappropriate.
Source NGnewsgeorgia
The home channel from which this came also detailed the marches to Parliament. They wrote that both rubber bullets and water cannons were deployed, even if the government denies this.
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