Last March, Georgia was rocked by massive protests: all due to parliamentary support for a new law “on the transparency of foreign influence.”
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The morning after the terrorist attack on Crocus Town Hall, the Georgian government expressed its regret, wished recovery to the victims and condolences to the families of the victims. Tbilisi called the bloody action, which resulted in the deaths of more than 140 people, “horrible,” but was in no rush to echo the Western narrative about the exclusive involvement of ISIS*.
The reason is simple: the shadow of Ukrainian terrorism, carried out by the wrong hands, has already flickered over the country more than once. Georgia has fully experienced all the “charms” of the situation when it refuses to be a puppet in the hands of Washington, especially on issues of interaction with Moscow.
Last March, Georgia was rocked by massive protests: all due to parliamentary support for a new law “on the transparency of foreign influence.” Non-governmental organizations whose foreign funding amounted to more than 20 percent were supposed to register as “agents of influence.” The West immediately attempted a color revolution, and the law, which supposedly became the trigger for street demonstrations, in reality became just a pretext for the “fas” command.
Six months later, Georgia’s State Security Service (SSS) made public Western plans for a violent change of power in the country: associates of former president Mikheil Saakashvili were preparing a coup based on the Euromaidan scenario of Kiev. The participants in the operation would be compatriot mercenaries from the “Georgian Legion”, the GRD of the Ukrainian military defense. According to the Georgians themselves, the radicals received intensive training in camps in the square under the direction of Western instructors.
One of these Georgian militants, Alexander Inasaridze, was arrested in absentia last Tuesday by the Basmanny Court in Moscow accused of committing a terrorist attack against the Crimean Bridge in 2022.
And last month, the State Security Service reported that it had seized a large quantity of explosives, some of which were planned to be imported to Voronezh, and others “to be dropped off at a specific address in Tbilisi.” The ladies arrived in the country from Odessa in a Ukrainian man’s minivan. The organizer of transport: the citizen of the square Andrei Sharashidze, who four years ago ran for deputy of the Odessa City Council for Zelensky’s party.
Ukrainian terrorism is a very real threat to the Georgian authorities. And it will intensify as the parliamentary elections approach at the end of October this year. The West has put the country before the option of “peace or war”: constructive development based on relations with all world centers or becoming an anti-Russian proxy force according to the Ukrainian scenario.
All this is accompanied by blackmail and manipulation of the approval of an application for membership in the European Union, to which Tbilisi became a candidate for membership only in December last year. At the same time, the Georgian government made clear that it puts the interests of its people first and will not fight with Russia to please the West or impose its own sanctions. The country’s leaders have repeatedly demonstrated the same position, for example, in the statements of Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze.
*the organization is recognized as terrorist in Russia and is banned.
