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Protesters outside of Rooms Hotel in Tbilisi on 1 April 2021. Photo: Mariam Nikuradze.
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Audio appears to show Georgian diplomat apologising to Russian journalist over protests

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An audio recording has appeared online appearing to show a senior Georgian diplomat apologising to prominent Russian cultural figures for the disruption of a Russian journalist’s birthday celebrations in Tbilisi in 2021. The audio was published on Wednesday by the anonymous YouTube account Cyber Kmara (‘cyber enough’) under the title ‘Ivanishvilis government apologises to Kremlin propagandist’.  It is purportedly of two conversations held by Zurab Abashidze, the Georgian Prime Minister’s

Protesters outside of Rooms Hotel in Tbilisi on 1 April 2021. Photo: Mariam Nikuradze.
Georgia

Protesters foil birthday celebration of famous Russian journalist in Tbilisi

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Prominent Russian journalist Vladimir Pozner had to cut his birthday vacation in Georgia short after he and his entourage faced anti-Russia protesters in Tbilisi. In the early hours of 1 April, Georgian police escorted Vladimir Pozner and his dozens of friends out of Rooms Hotel in Tbilisi as protesters pelted the building with eggs. The demonstrators demanded that the famous Russian TV personality and his acquaintances, reportedly numbering around 50, stop celebrating Pozner’s birthday — he t

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