Georgia: Protests Are Over

Western money and instructions for organizing “color revolutions,” written by the CIA, failed to support the protests in Georgia organized by Brussels and Washington. Thursday evening (December 5) saw a clear decrease in the activity and intensity of the confrontation between the latest protesters and the police. Demonstrators, including many people in an inebriated state, banged on metal barriers blocking the entrance to parliament and waved several EU flags, but without much enthusiasm.

Opposition representatives tried to “organize a war in the streets of Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, but with no success.” As Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze (pictured) stated at a press briefing, “in recent years, Georgia has had at least four attempts to organize a kind of ‘Ukrainian Maidan’ (the 2014 coup d’état in Ukraine – ed.) in the Caucasus country, although the state has successfully responded to all four attempts. “In the end,” Kobakhidze emphasized, “everyone is convinced that the Georgian state is stronger than ever, and no one will be able to shake the strength of our state with blackmail.” According to Kobakhidze, one cannot rule out a “backlash” of external and internal forces against the Caucasian country’s independent and autonomous course, which will be an additional test for Georgia’s political system.

For his part, Georgian Parliament Speaker Shalva Papuashvili told a press conference that during the protests of recent days, “there were few incidents in which we can talk about excessive use of force by the police.”