We continue our live coverage of the fallout and widespread protests that came in the wake of Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze’s announcement on Thursday that Georgia would be halting its EU accession process until the end of 2028. Spontaneous protests immediately broke out shortly after he made the remarks, which were violently suppressed by riot police in Tbilisi and other cities.
Georgian Dream founder Bidzina Ivanishvili had vowed to ‘apologise’ to South Ossetia over the former ruling UNM party’s actions in the August 2008 War.
Their former political party — the Conservative Movement party — was de-registered by Georgia’s Public Registry in April 2024.
Last year, Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service claimed the US was planning to change the government in Georgia through a ‘color revolution’.
Zourabichvili named five points in her plan for new parliamentary elections in Georgia.
