
Georgian Dream escalates rhetoric against Western ambassadors and Ukraine
Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze said that European ambassadors must stop acting like ‘ambassadors of hate’.
The Georgian Government’s announcement on 28 November that they would not seek to open accession negotiations with the EU ‘until 2028’ has led to a crisis in the country.
Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze said that European ambassadors must stop acting like ‘ambassadors of hate’.
According to the Interior Ministry, the detained person is 16 years old.
Elene Koshtaria, the leader of Georgia’s opposition party Droa, was arrested for ‘damaging’ Tbilisi Mayor Kakha Kaladze’s re-election poster.
Anastasia Zinovkina and Artem Gribul were active in the protests against Georgian Dream and believe the drugs were planted on them.
Levan Khabeishvili, a member of the former ruling United National Movement (UNM) party, offered riot police $200,000 not to disperse protesters.
One of the men was caught on film striking a woman protester in the face, while the other used a police officer’s baton to beat protesters.
Parliamentary speaker Shalva Papuashvili has repeatedly accused German Ambassador Peter Fischer of supporting violence against the government.