Key events from yesterday:
- The US announced personal sanctions against Georgian Dream’s founder and honourary chairman, Bidzina Ivanishvili.
- Baltic leaders call on the EU to follow suit and sanction Ivanishvili.
- The Insider, a Russian independent investigative media outlet, released a report alleging that election rigging on behalf of Georgian Dream could have resulted in approximately 300,000 fraudulent votes for the party.
- Irakli Shaishmelashvili, a former senior official in the Special Tasks Department who resigned on 4 December, following the government crackdown on street demonstrations in protest of the halting of Georgia’s EU membership bid, announced on Facebook that he was leaving the country.
- Protests continue for the 30th consecutive day.
