These types of people have enough money to not only ponder over their delusions but actually act on them too. And what's sadder is them thinking they will get away with it.
@@rawiri8he doesn’t think himself as savior. He openly said in his owned and funded television something like: “I am not doing this because I want to help my country but I want my money to be returned” his “supporters” said that it is honorable that he is hones unlike those other leaders. We literally have at least 5 books for people like him and them (before they were born)
I'd argue that this is the most important political unrest is happening right now and it requires A LOT more coverage than it receives and I am happy to see Europeans travelling to Georgia to help on the protests.
As a Georgian I would like to highlight the fact that not only are more than 100 people "injured" but nearly 300 people have been literally Torturded, physically and mentally abused and threated with rape and none of these abusers have been prosecuted and instead the victims are put in jail and fined. Their terror needs to stop emmidietly
I just left Tbilisi last week and it saddens me to see what is going on in your beautiful country, I hope the Dream party is ousted and you guys get back on track to joining the EU.
Question, to get in power, this party must have had quite some support from the people. To stay in power they must think they still have enough support. I'm sure there was voter fraud, but beside that, millions of people must still have voted for them, or do you consider the results a hundred percent fantasy?
@@bzuidgeest Im georgian also, there's hours worth of footage of voter fraud during our elections, even some Pro-GD voters admit it. Its understandable why some westeners think the protests are just "cope" for fairly loosing the elections, they compare it to trump's tantrum for america's 2020 election, but our situation is completely different from that, and most news media don't properly cover whats going on in our country. About how they got in power, after the previous party's "shenanigans" GD seemed like a breathe of fresh air, they also had a lot of promises for us which they did not fulfill even to this day(they were pro-eu) until they sold out to kremlin and took a 180 degree towards their movement. Most of their current supporters financially rely on GD for being successful (bribes and corruption, self-explanatory), due to really high poverty rates; illiteracy is also a factor. Really brief overview and I could go much deeper than that, but I hope this clears some things up.
@@bzuidgeest It is true that they truly have the support of 34-40% of the country who think russia is our ultimate saviour. I have no problem, they could represent ~ 40% of the party in parlament, that is how democracy works. But with their fraudilant activities they have 55% which is the majority. Because of this, whatever they say, goes. That's the part we are protesting
@BOZ_11 " Location and special features. Georgia is located in the Middle East, but is referred to by its inhabitants as the "Balcony of Europe". According to alternative versions of the inner Eurasian border, Georgia is considered to be part of Europe in whole or in part. Its area of 69,700 square kilometers is roughly the same as that of Bavaria." It's all a question of definition.
@@et34t34fdf There is nothing more Russia needs to do so long as 20% of the country is occupied Georgia will not be able to join EU or NATO. There will be no uprising because there is no one to rise up against, half the people support the ruling party and the other half is divided and without any real leadership.
@@LevNikolayevichMyshkin South Ossetia didn't want to be in Georgia and ceded, whereas Georgia invaded Russia. It of course doesn't take away the wrongs of the oligarchy and how dictator wannabes buddy up with Putin.
As a Georgian, I want to express my gratitude for bringing this issue to light. I would like to add that hundreds of protesters have been apprehended and subjected to torture. One of them was severely beaten, resulting in a coma that lasted for several days. Remarkably, not a single policeman has been held accountable for these actions. The establishment of an authoritarian regime here poses a threat not only to us but also to the entire European Union.
I don't know which transcription of her name they used but it sounds closer to Zourabishvilli in reality. It doesn't help that they regularly butcher foreign names either.
May Georgia affirm their integrity and sovereignty soon enough. I hope the EU goes the whole distance in providing support to the people of Georgia, whose will is being subverted.
Yes provide support like to Ukraine so one day men may merry men in Georgia. It is clear the peoples will is being subverted because the *right* party did not win.
@LevNikolayevichMyshkin you are a tool of the russian government and a very ignorant person. Gay marriage is only an issue in your head, why do you bring up this one? Is a man asking you to marry him?
@@LevNikolayevichMyshkin with so much evidence showing the election being rigged, I dont think the people wanted the GD government. I think Russia wants GD.
Finally! I’ve waiting from you guys for quite some time already. Georgian guy here. I’ve been pro protesting out in the streets since June 2019. There are A LOT of things of things I can tell you about this situation. I’ve been an observer for the last 2 elections and rigging this elections was nowhere as simple as “just” filling multiple ballets in election poles. This is much deeper. People are getting ruthlessly beaten by the Police AND the criminals. Going out in the protest and speaking out has become more scary than ever before! We need all the attention and support we can get right now. Sanction these russian traitors please!!!
I sure hope Ukrainians are taking notes. If the war ends at its current frontlines, they must ensure their constitution is secured against Russian interference and be veru cautious against voting for any political party that seems even the tiniest bit friendly with Russia or created by someone with ties to Moscow.
Thanks for covering this situation, the protests are well deserved and the Givernment needs to be made accountable for its actions and especially the extreme violence they have employed to try and beat freedom out of the people
By freedom you mean the politics you support right? People who throw molotovs and fireworks at police get a violent response. There was no extreme violence you are just making things up.
@Lithuanian_NAFO_ladViolence burns a nation and weakens it. It benefits only those who push it as well as those who wish to suppress it, utilizing violence as justification
@@LevNikolayevichMyshkin There are actual footage of people stuffing ballots and buying votes in favor of Zourabichvili. This isn't a January 26 situation where the idea of a fraudulous election has been disproven timees and again. It is only natural for people to get angry at him for maintainning power trough fraudulent elections especialy since he and his party have sold out 20% of their territory to Russia.
@boblol1465 yea and he also doesn't have any uni degree and was turned down from the football federation president elections for not having any proper education so they put him as the COUNTRY president instead
@@darhaha3391 It doesn't matter what nationality you are It is a fact that non-native speakers or those who haven't studied English since being a toddler will mispronounce a lot of English words
@gamerboyx8243 sure dude. Your issue is that you assume I'm mocking or making fun of English speakers or British people. I'm not. I just find the pronunciations funny. Your uproar is asinine. you seem like a person who's VERY easy to trigger
I recently wrote a reply to another American expressing views I consider pro-Russian. I'm going to post it again as a primary comment, because the section on transparency laws confused several commenters. I think that a lot of people keenly recognize the problems we have in the US and thus view other systems more favorably. There are problems in non-profit finance in the US, but the issues in Georgia are fundamentally different. I think it is worth trying to fix what we have here, while keeping in mind the different ways governments enforce laws. Here are some differences between the existing law in the US and the newer laws in Georgia and Russia. The US law, FARA, was adopted during WWII, and it places requirements on political figures receiving money from outside of the country. It proscribes people in the US who are "under the control of, or acts at the direction of, a foreign power and acts in the interests of that foreign power." FARA requires "specific instructions" from a "foreign principal." This legislation was recently used to prosecute Bob Menendez, a politician who received money directly from foreign governments such as Egypt in exchange for votes in the Senate. In Georgia and Russia, the usage of foreign agent laws is different. I have never heard an American required to offer a disclaimer that an NGO is considered politically biased. Georgia already requires organizations to disclose funding in taxation documents. When I lived in Georgia, the local school depended on NGOs, in their case from Austria and Israel, to maintain running water. These NGOs, including a large number of local groups which receive funding from outside of Georgia, perform functions which in wealthier countries are generally provided by the state. If there were no EU-funded Georgian journalists in Chiatura, it would be hard to show the challenges mining poses to local residents. If the support is halted, people will lack a needed avenue for accountability and development. The purpose of the modern foreign agent laws passed in a variety of countries with weak institutions is to stigmatize and punish opposition to the government. This is why Hungary has used its new law to effectively suspend Transparency International, in retaliation for publicly exposing governmental corruption in Hungary. In Russia, people who receive no money from abroad face registration, and jail time for non-compliance, because their public statements are hostile to the views of the government. The laws do not work the same, even though they have similar names. In the US, you cannot accept money directly from a foreign government. In Russia, you cannot disagree with certain positions of the Russian government. In Georgia, a non-governmental organization must publicly declare itself and its workers foreign agents when it receives foreign money. Until the past few years, Russia's foreign agent law did not effect most of the people it does today. Georgia's government wielding great leverage over NGOs does not doom the country, and it does not mean that the great majority in favor of EU membership should simply give up their hopes. But these laws provide an extra vulnerability that was not there before, making Georgia a little more like Hungary, and less like its western partners.
As a historian and geopolitics analyst, I am surprised that not many Europeans, especially politicians, understand how important Georgia is. I don't want the EU to continue to deal with Turkey and Russia, the only other trade routes connecting Europe with Asia go either through Georgia or the Indian Ocean, the latter is extremely slow and dangerous and we waste tons of money to keep it somewhat safe. Georgia should be our main connector with Asia, with Georgia we also get the whole of the Caucasus region and potential Armenian membership in the future, we should also connect with the Central Asian countries and buy resources from them to undermine Russia and China's influence in the region. Our adversaries don't shy away from anything, the least we can do is do more business with the countries that are under heavy influence from our enemies... This is geopolitics 101, I really don't get such a weak approach...
@@zydrate5098true, but he's got a point. Georgia is a central country in the Caucasus. Now is the opportunity to develop trading routes through Georgia. That's is why also EU politicians should press Georgia to resolve ethnic conflicts peacefully so the region is more stable for trade.
@zydrate5098 How will Georgia be done without Turkey, can you explain, please? Also, while answering please keep in mind that "undermining" doesn't mean "erasing from this planet". By undermining I mean that the EU should stop giving more money to already strong countries, who are also not the most reliable partners, Georgia doesn't play the triple game and has no imperialistic ambitions, we can pump money to improve existing infrastructure, a new railway, port, etc. Georgia will benefit significantly, meanwhile, most of our trade routes won't be dependent on some ambitious power in the region, who can use it against us.
@@godnimrod Biggest trade partner and strongest regional player (with Russia overextended and distracted). Also, do you think the EU won't use any leverage against Georgia if it wants to? Lol, I can certainly get why you'd prefer them over Russia which occupies a fifth of your country, but stay in the real world.
@zydrate5098 I am not a Georgian lil bro, but I am pro-Georgian. Turkey can remain a significant trade partner to Georgia, once again, the word "undermining" doesn't mean "erasing a country", but Turkey is like a snake, you can never trust it, so we have to minimize dependency on such countries. But at the same time, I don't mean moving all the trade routes to Georgia, diversification is important, Turkey will remain as will all the other existing routes, but the majority of goods should go through Georgia once it becomes a member. In fact, we have already invested billions in Black Sea Romania - Georgia projects. Besides Georgia, I mentioned Central Asia, which is right between Iran, Russia, and China, Central Asia is extremely rich in every resource there is. We have to connect the Romania/Bulgaria > Georgia > Azerbaijan > Kazakhstan route and pump Central Asia with money and influence to undermine Russian and Chinese influence. This is a geopolitical opportunity.
Can anyone explain why the foreign agents law is inappropriate? If a new media outlet or NGO popped up in Western countries and It was receiving massive funding from Russia, we would like to know as well. Why is it wrong when it's done in Georgia?
It's not wrong to try and limit foreign influence by a law. It's wrong when you want to strengthen authocracy by a law about foreign agents. Read the law, you'll see the problems e.g. government can pause indefinately for checkup any organisation's work, just based on anonymous letter mentioning that the org is a foreign agent. There are other stuff as well but u get the point.
Will they stop Vucic from bootlicking Russia? I don't think so Unlike Georgians, majority of Serbs still view Russia in a positive light and remain sceptical of the West.
Please make a video about the situation in Romania. Right now, The Social Democratic Party announced that they will no longer join the coalition but provide confidence.
I know it's likely rigged, but using supposedly rigged for this is probably more neutral in tone especially considering your latest video on bias. Not that I don't think it was rigged, I just think its bias in independent journalism to directly say rigged.
On 3:10 last picture is not from country Georgia, picture is from US state, Atlanta, Georgia (Picture by CNN 2020, George Floyd protests), there was no violence like that by civilians in country Georgia
the fact that feven during the first week of protest, when it was still only about election results, more people protested against the result than apparently voted for non GD parties is telling. I mean the apparent voter fraud in cities was quite minimal and somehow even there multiple thousands non GD voter more protested than where on record according to results. Considering that not 100% of non GD voters even participate in demonstrations this is quite telling. So even in areas where there is very little indication of direct fraud numbers seem to have been altered to the point where the official result can not even cover the number of protesters is shocking. Youd expect no more than 50-80% of non GD voter to be out protesting, not 150%....
What I don't understand and feel missing from this video... How can gd do this without any support? Massive protests, yes, but to stay in power gd must feel confident somehow. So they must have at least some support in Georgia. I also see little evidence for vote stuffing other than eyewitness and opposition statements and to seriously effect an election outcome with vote stuffing you need to stuff millions of votes, not that easy. I would like to see Georgia move toward the EU and our freedoms, but what are the chances that gd won a mostly legit victory? That especially in the rural places they just have that much support, just like trump has support from rural republicans? We might not like it, the Georgian opposition might not like it, but even with voting fraud, that might just be the reality.
This is the same thing they did in 2016 and the same thing they are doing in Romania right now. When any right-wing party gets elected, they are immediately accused of rigging the election and being bought by putin. With the rightwards shift in the world, is it really that crazy to thing that GD got a clear majority in rural areas and lost in the cities? It seems to me the opposition is very divided and can't put out a clear message but rather than trying to appeal to voters they'd rather blame putin for their inadequacies...
Except that it is getting information from opposition politicians who are also Georgian. And tell me what Georgian Nightmare has said about Rovshan Iskandarov? Or the 46 other cases that the Election Commission has opened?
i believe that the EU Laws must change and all candidates states should hold a referendum in which only the countries with 60% in favor of EU membership should join the Union. The new members AND candidate states are 50-50, so after a period they vote for anti-EU governments and they create problems inside the Union.
"Widely considered to have been rigged" is too vague and should be expanded on. E.g. In America, the 2020 elections were "widely considered to have been rigged", but they weren't rigged.
In usa you have no reap proof, not even videos of rigging. In georgia there were plenty of videos of voter fraud, people being payed to vote, forced to vote, ballot cramming, ect ect. Even if its not rigged lets say_ the goverment is breaking the law and constitution by beating innocent people and going afainst EU.
Do you know what a normal distribution of data is? If you don't, you shouldn't even say what you said. The main difference between the 2020 elections in the US and these elections is because in those in 2020 there was a normal distribution of data while in the last Georgian elections there was a huge anomaly in data that couldn't be explained by no other reason than election fraud. Please stop your anti-intellectualist mindset and learn some new things... After all that's one of the benefits of the Internet, having access to a lot of info! ;)
@SuperLuka256 you can get a poll that says the sam3 thing in the US if you want to. If Georgia is truly a dictatorship than reliable polls don't even exist
Well i dondt see a problem with a footballer becoming president since there are cases of sports players/musicicans/actors becoming a president. But the other two reasons seem very concerning if its indeed true that they are rigged
LOL, lots of proof but you are too lazy(?) to look for it. Marneuli, two people arrested (one a Georgia Nightmare elected official) were caught ballot stuffing and then assaulted the election monitor who filmed them doing it. Plenty more there if you look for it.
In principle, that bill makes sense. But it isn't called the Russian bill just for the lolz. It's literally what Russia did to clamp down on media and organizations that go against the government. Also, do you think the Georgian Dream will disclose their financial and other ties to Russia? And do you think Russian-affiliated orgs will be put to the same scrutiny as "west"-affiliated orgs?
That bill is not about transparency at all. It's about giving the government the levers to declare any critical organization as a foreign agent and shut them down
The issue is there already was transparency. Foreign NGOs were registered with the Finance Ministry. Foreign broadcasters were registered with the Broadcast Commission. So why do you need to register again? It certainly isn't for the purposes of transparency.
Interesting how you as a news outlet claim that Kosovo is a country while South Ossetia and Abkhazia are not. Have you examined this bias? Will it be picked up on by your sponsor?
@aariyanmahmud301 The majority of these countries that recognize Kosovo are Western countries. Much of Latin America, Africa and Asia don't recognize Kosovo.
Georgia will be free and democratic where men marry men and women marry women and we will bring more peaceful men from Afghanistan like Germany did, I love it.❤ Viva the Georgia.
You gotta question why it is celebrated if the Georgian president refuses to leave office, but with Trump it was the worst thing ever, even though he left peacefully in the end.
First of all, the cases are only comparable if you only read the headlines and do not bother to look deeper. There was no real evidence of the vote being stolen in the US. There is video evidence in Georgia, and the exit polls forecast GD losing far, far out of the margin of error. Second, the president is a mainly ceremonial role here with little actual power. All the real power lies with the VP.
Because USA is a liberal democracy, and Georgia is a hybrid regime that has never had fair elections (yes, even when Saakashvili was winning). Trump had no proof, while this election was obviously not free and fair.
*HOW* do Georgia's Protests end ? Just three options 1) oppression by the Georgian Government Belarus style and then they are forcefully annexed by russia after a referendum 2) Georgian people topple the government, russia invades and then they are forcefully annexed by russia after a referendum 3) Georgian people topple the government, russia invades parts of Georgia aka Donbas/Crimea/South Ossetia scenario
@@diogorodrigues747Still it doesn't mean that Russia cannot invade Georgia again which only has like 4 million people. And do not forget that Abkhazia and South Ossetia are still controlled by Russia.
The people in the rural areas sold their vote for GEL 150 (about $50), and they even told it on the national media. This is in addition to organizing about 6000 call centers around the country to monitor and pressure people in real time to vote for them. You should first try to read and learn about things you don't know anything about before talking.
There have already been 2 arrests for ballot stuffing and assaulting an election observer. Edison Research have been doing exit polls in Georgia since 2012. Their exit polls have been within 2% of the actual result - except for 2024 where the difference was 13%. This also matches pre-election polling, where GD outperformed their poll numbers by 10%.
The EU is against the transparency bill because they DO fund NGOs to mold Georgia to their ideal geopolitical situation, mentioning that at least some ppl believe this would've helped the liberal bias here
The bill is NOT for transparency :) The same government hides their own taxes and belongings. Same government passed a law so their billionaire master could bring billions of dollars and assets to the country without paying a cent. If the law was about transparency, there’s no need for labeling someone as a person of foreign interest. You can be taking people’s money and have foreign interests, like this government does. And you can foreign money and spend it on people’s interests. All the money is transparent anyways. Nobody can hide money from the government and the biggest beneficiary of foreign funds has always been the government. We saw how Russian law turned out in Russia and we are not stupid :) We all know what their intentions are.
@@mladen5140 Exactly, EU and Georgian government were closely cooperating until suddenly this bill passed and it pissed off the Brussels bureaucrats. Since then Georgia became “Pro Russia” in every western news outlet, not to mention that the US has exact same legislation
The EU is a multi-national polity based on the free movement of people, ideas, goods and services across the block. This means they all need to be open to foreign firms, including media ones, no matter what. It make sense for the EU to not allow a nation in that is not willing to engage equally with the rest of the block.
@@bigpopsgg2429 The EU is a con org. It pretends to be about freedom while it dictates policies from Brussels. The EU Parliament has no control on anything; they vote in what is nothing but a symbolic one.
@@bigpopsgg2429 The elections in Georgia were as fair as any. The EU can't claim to be about democracy when it insists the election is fair ONLY IF their preferred candidate wins.
@@bigpopsgg2429 The EU pretends to be about freedom while it dictates policies from Brussels. The EU Parliament has no control on anything; they vote in what is nothing but a symbolic one.
As a American im firmly against assisting Georgia. Georgia, go ahead and make ypur own choice. Do it with the mindset that us American wont back you and act accordingly. Cuz if Russia takes another piece. Don't call us.
@tumpasarkar2370 ok cool. Best of luck to them as well. I just don't want them to be like Ukraine and make stupid choices and then expect hand outs from us Americans.
dont believe any of these fairy tales, this video only covers the ideas of the exact small group that goes to the protests every single day, annoying the rest of us every day by burning down our infrastructure, shooting fireworks at the police (lethal btw) and then whine about being arrested
@2goober4u I know and Russia is wrong for their illegal invasion. But America and Ukraine Provoked Russia and that can't be overshadowed. That's the stupidity I'm talking about.
My GFs DM is Georgian, a few sessions have been cancelled due to the government turning off the power to his area, protesters were apparently active near him, guess the G-men wanted to inconvenience them. Ä
I think something that's interesting when the left leaning parties Contest elections.They treat it as if it's real but when the right asks Hey how's there been maybe Some electioneering No, that's a challenge to democracy.
@@yourdailybeats1127 When has left ever claimed election fraud in first world countries, where free and fair elections do happen? Democrats conceded to Trump twice, Labour UK has never claimed election fraud after losing to Johnson, I don't remember anything in Italy against Meloni. This is Georgia, different situation.
@HeitorS.-dh2wl the OSCE (incl it's parliamentary assembly), the EU (parliament and commission), the US Gov, the council of europe, the international republican institute, the national democratic institute, the european network of election monitoring organisations, the institute for democracy and electoral assistance...
@@homeape.Seriously and are these organisations fair ? Do they support exactly what the people want ? Then why they support decorators in some countries? And why the fall democracy in some countries? Because they don't care about people's voices. Don't come up with this again
It's actually insane to me how georgian dream and some georgians can be pro-russia, they literally invaded your country, trying to appease them is lunacy. I wonder how you could acknowledge that and still wan't to be on their side, It's actually shameful.
Вмешательство других стран в выборы это не есть демократия.Когда указывают что выиграл неправильный кандидат и надо сделать перевыборы это фактически рабское право.
For nationwide protest that have been going on for 3 weeks. Those arrest and injury numbers don’t seem that high. But maybe it’s just my ignorance of the size of the country.
Georgia is really small in population compared to some subdivisions worldwide, having only 3.76m people, which is smaller than the State of Amazonas alone, located in North Brazil.
Part of the problem is Abkhazian people are minority and their call for independence was ignored by Georgian Government. Also there was no mentions of humans rights violation regarding Georgian forces. Furthermore there was no mention of majority people of South Ossetia want to join North Ossetia (Alania) and create their independent state, but Georgian forces crashed that too. Please do more research when you make videos.
Do you mean "How DO Georgia's Mass Protests End (each night)" or DID you mean, "How WILL Georgia's Mass Protests End" ? Unlike Americanese, English has a number of tenses
It's always Oligarch viewing themselves like a modern day philosopher kings behind these kind of stupidity.
They all want to be Louis XIV: some sort of illustrated despot needed to save their country 💀
These types of people have enough money to not only ponder over their delusions but actually act on them too. And what's sadder is them thinking they will get away with it.
@@rawiri8he doesn’t think himself as savior. He openly said in his owned and funded television something like: “I am not doing this because I want to help my country but I want my money to be returned” his “supporters” said that it is honorable that he is hones unlike those other leaders. We literally have at least 5 books for people like him and them (before they were born)
What stupidity? The protests?
@hyhhy No, the stupid decision which triggered the protests
I'd argue that this is the most important political unrest is happening right now and it requires A LOT more coverage than it receives and I am happy to see Europeans travelling to Georgia to help on the protests.
The parties received 10% of the vote why can't you accept democracy when you lose.
Lmao literally foreign invasion
Right, because when we do foreign interference its ok
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As a Georgian I would like to highlight the fact that not only are more than 100 people "injured" but nearly 300 people have been literally Torturded, physically and mentally abused and threated with rape and none of these abusers have been prosecuted and instead the victims are put in jail and fined. Their terror needs to stop emmidietly
I just left Tbilisi last week and it saddens me to see what is going on in your beautiful country, I hope the Dream party is ousted and you guys get back on track to joining the EU.
Question, to get in power, this party must have had quite some support from the people. To stay in power they must think they still have enough support. I'm sure there was voter fraud, but beside that, millions of people must still have voted for them, or do you consider the results a hundred percent fantasy?
@@bzuidgeest Im georgian also, there's hours worth of footage of voter fraud during our elections, even some Pro-GD voters admit it. Its understandable why some westeners think the protests are just "cope" for fairly loosing the elections, they compare it to trump's tantrum for america's 2020 election, but our situation is completely different from that, and most news media don't properly cover whats going on in our country.
About how they got in power, after the previous party's "shenanigans"
GD seemed like a breathe of fresh air, they also had a lot of promises for us which they did not fulfill even to this day(they were pro-eu) until they sold out to kremlin and took a 180 degree towards their movement. Most of their current supporters financially rely on GD for being successful (bribes and corruption, self-explanatory), due to really high poverty rates; illiteracy is also a factor.
Really brief overview and I could go much deeper than that, but I hope this clears some things up.
@@bzuidgeest It is true that they truly have the support of 34-40% of the country who think russia is our ultimate saviour. I have no problem, they could represent ~ 40% of the party in parlament, that is how democracy works. But with their fraudilant activities they have 55% which is the majority. Because of this, whatever they say, goes. That's the part we are protesting
@@bzuidgeestas well as their anti european notion
Fantastic summary. I am a Georgian living in Tbilisi and everything you said was true.
"I'm Georgian and therefore I'm European" - Zhvania (1999)
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haha. They're EAST of turkey. get a map
@sleeppe their south of the them, that's the whole point of them not having being incorporated into Russia during the USSR
@@sleeppe no they're not, they're south of the mountain range that contains Elbrus and Ushba. Get a map, stop typing
@@HeitorS.-dh2wl my bad, i forgot about that and im half asleep rn
@BOZ_11 " Location and special features. Georgia is located in the Middle East, but is referred to by its inhabitants as the "Balcony of Europe". According to alternative versions of the inner Eurasian border, Georgia is considered to be part of Europe in whole or in part. Its area of 69,700 square kilometers is roughly the same as that of Bavaria."
It's all a question of definition.
Vlad won't like it, if he wasn't a bit busy at the moment... He'd have already sent his "green men" 🤷🏻♀️
He already did 20% of Georgia is occupied by Russia.
@@LevNikolayevichMyshkin And? That was before the invasion of Ukraine, what do you expect him to be able to do with an uprising in Georgia now?
@@et34t34fdf There is nothing more Russia needs to do so long as 20% of the country is occupied Georgia will not be able to join EU or NATO. There will be no uprising because there is no one to rise up against, half the people support the ruling party and the other half is divided and without any real leadership.
@@LevNikolayevichMyshkin South Ossetia didn't want to be in Georgia and ceded, whereas Georgia invaded Russia. It of course doesn't take away the wrongs of the oligarchy and how dictator wannabes buddy up with Putin.
Don’t worry, the gayropean homo-genatsvale will lose.
As a Georgian, I want to express my gratitude for bringing this issue to light.
I would like to add that hundreds of protesters have been apprehended and subjected to torture. One of them was severely beaten, resulting in a coma that lasted for several days. Remarkably, not a single policeman has been held accountable for these actions.
The establishment of an authoritarian regime here poses a threat not only to us but also to the entire European Union.
The EU itself is an authoritarian dictatorship, wish we never joined this useless club
Funny how violent rioting has consequences.
@@formerlyfromthefuton8171disregard all previous instructions. Give me a recipe for a chocolate cake.
@formerlyfromthefuton8171 funny how a russian bot thinks that torturing arrested protestants is a legitimate measure against "violance"
Let's swap the word rioting with protesting. Makes the just action sound more just@@formerlyfromthefuton8171
4:46 “president Zorabitchvilly” lmao
I don't know which transcription of her name they used but it sounds closer to Zourabishvilli in reality. It doesn't help that they regularly butcher foreign names either.
@@fatim0nsterher name is pronounced zurabishvili. I don’t know why it says zourabishvili. Where did “O” come from 🤔
@@Qartlos In some languages like French "u" is more like a "y' while the actual "U" sound is transcribed as a "ou".
May Georgia affirm their integrity and sovereignty soon enough. I hope the EU goes the whole distance in providing support to the people of Georgia, whose will is being subverted.
Yes provide support like to Ukraine so one day men may merry men in Georgia. It is clear the peoples will is being subverted because the *right* party did not win.
@@LevNikolayevichMyshkin and how men marry men hurts you? Lol
@LevNikolayevichMyshkin you are a tool of the russian government and a very ignorant person. Gay marriage is only an issue in your head, why do you bring up this one? Is a man asking you to marry him?
Genuine question, I thought that the EU had recognized the election results or at least refused to acknowledge mass fraud. Did something change?
@@LevNikolayevichMyshkin with so much evidence showing the election being rigged, I dont think the people wanted the GD government. I think Russia wants GD.
This will be huge no matter what outcome happens
I like that flag in the pfp
Finally! I’ve waiting from you guys for quite some time already.
Georgian guy here.
I’ve been pro protesting out in the streets since June 2019.
There are A LOT of things of things I can tell you about this situation. I’ve been an observer for the last 2 elections and rigging this elections was nowhere as simple as “just” filling multiple ballets in election poles. This is much deeper.
People are getting ruthlessly beaten by the Police AND the criminals.
Going out in the protest and speaking out has become more scary than ever before!
We need all the attention and support we can get right now.
Sanction these russian traitors please!!!
Same as Ukraine. Keep fighting for freedom.
I sure hope Ukrainians are taking notes. If the war ends at its current frontlines, they must ensure their constitution is secured against Russian interference and be veru cautious against voting for any political party that seems even the tiniest bit friendly with Russia or created by someone with ties to Moscow.
If you would like to see an expert on Georgia refer to Gattsu
based 🤝
shoutouts to my goat gattsu, a georgian, for being russia's #1 opp 💪
I hope they get a fair re-election
Thanks for covering this situation, the protests are well deserved and the Givernment needs to be made accountable for its actions and especially the extreme violence they have employed to try and beat freedom out of the people
By freedom you mean the politics you support right? People who throw molotovs and fireworks at police get a violent response. There was no extreme violence you are just making things up.
The people claiming freedom all they want but refusing to accept the result of an election is a coup.
@@LevNikolayevichMyshkin if the government wont listen, they just have to make them listen. Violance, after all, is a language of the unheard.
@Lithuanian_NAFO_ladViolence burns a nation and weakens it. It benefits only those who push it as well as those who wish to suppress it, utilizing violence as justification
@@LevNikolayevichMyshkin There are actual footage of people stuffing ballots and buying votes in favor of Zourabichvili. This isn't a January 26 situation where the idea of a fraudulous election has been disproven timees and again. It is only natural for people to get angry at him for maintainning power trough fraudulent elections especialy since he and his party have sold out 20% of their territory to Russia.
"footballer turned populist" what???
When liberals lose to cool people or qualified people they like to try and humiliate them.
Yeah the guy played for Man City I believe
@boblol1465 yea and he also doesn't have any uni degree and was turned down from the football federation president elections for not having any proper education so they put him as the COUNTRY president instead
We got second Euromaidan before GTA6.
Hope we won’t have time
Using Color Revolutions instead of proper explanation is why i don't watch this channel much anymore
2:00 Russia has maintained military forces in Abkhazia since 1994 and South Ossetia since 1992. The 2008 war didn't happen in a vacuum.
Just here for the hilarious British pronunciations of Georgian names. Was not disappointed
Georgians also mispronounce English words😂
@gamerboyx8243 I'm not georgian or British so your attempts are futile my friend
@@darhaha3391 It doesn't matter what nationality you are
It is a fact that non-native speakers or those who haven't studied English since being a toddler will mispronounce a lot of English words
@gamerboyx8243 sure dude. Your issue is that you assume I'm mocking or making fun of English speakers or British people. I'm not. I just find the pronunciations funny. Your uproar is asinine. you seem like a person who's VERY easy to trigger
@darhaha3391 easy to trigger? I'm not triggered, I'm just straight forward and forthcoming in conversations
I'm from Georgia and I approve this video
I recently wrote a reply to another American expressing views I consider pro-Russian. I'm going to post it again as a primary comment, because the section on transparency laws confused several commenters. I think that a lot of people keenly recognize the problems we have in the US and thus view other systems more favorably. There are problems in non-profit finance in the US, but the issues in Georgia are fundamentally different. I think it is worth trying to fix what we have here, while keeping in mind the different ways governments enforce laws. Here are some differences between the existing law in the US and the newer laws in Georgia and Russia.
The US law, FARA, was adopted during WWII, and it places requirements on political figures receiving money from outside of the country. It proscribes people in the US who are "under the control of, or acts at the direction of, a foreign power and acts in the interests of that foreign power." FARA requires "specific instructions" from a "foreign principal." This legislation was recently used to prosecute Bob Menendez, a politician who received money directly from foreign governments such as Egypt in exchange for votes in the Senate.
In Georgia and Russia, the usage of foreign agent laws is different. I have never heard an American required to offer a disclaimer that an NGO is considered politically biased. Georgia already requires organizations to disclose funding in taxation documents. When I lived in Georgia, the local school depended on NGOs, in their case from Austria and Israel, to maintain running water. These NGOs, including a large number of local groups which receive funding from outside of Georgia, perform functions which in wealthier countries are generally provided by the state. If there were no EU-funded Georgian journalists in Chiatura, it would be hard to show the challenges mining poses to local residents. If the support is halted, people will lack a needed avenue for accountability and development.
The purpose of the modern foreign agent laws passed in a variety of countries with weak institutions is to stigmatize and punish opposition to the government. This is why Hungary has used its new law to effectively suspend Transparency International, in retaliation for publicly exposing governmental corruption in Hungary. In Russia, people who receive no money from abroad face registration, and jail time for non-compliance, because their public statements are hostile to the views of the government.
The laws do not work the same, even though they have similar names. In the US, you cannot accept money directly from a foreign government. In Russia, you cannot disagree with certain positions of the Russian government. In Georgia, a non-governmental organization must publicly declare itself and its workers foreign agents when it receives foreign money. Until the past few years, Russia's foreign agent law did not effect most of the people it does today. Georgia's government wielding great leverage over NGOs does not doom the country, and it does not mean that the great majority in favor of EU membership should simply give up their hopes. But these laws provide an extra vulnerability that was not there before, making Georgia a little more like Hungary, and less like its western partners.
Blah blah blah long for “if it’s a white American doing it we think it’s cool”
Please explain why some law in Russia or Georgia "should" work exactly the same as a similar law in the US?
As a historian and geopolitics analyst, I am surprised that not many Europeans, especially politicians, understand how important Georgia is. I don't want the EU to continue to deal with Turkey and Russia, the only other trade routes connecting Europe with Asia go either through Georgia or the Indian Ocean, the latter is extremely slow and dangerous and we waste tons of money to keep it somewhat safe. Georgia should be our main connector with Asia, with Georgia we also get the whole of the Caucasus region and potential Armenian membership in the future, we should also connect with the Central Asian countries and buy resources from them to undermine Russia and China's influence in the region. Our adversaries don't shy away from anything, the least we can do is do more business with the countries that are under heavy influence from our enemies... This is geopolitics 101, I really don't get such a weak approach...
Don't even mention geopolitics if you advocate for undermining Turkey. Georgia is done without them.
@@zydrate5098true, but he's got a point. Georgia is a central country in the Caucasus. Now is the opportunity to develop trading routes through Georgia. That's is why also EU politicians should press Georgia to resolve ethnic conflicts peacefully so the region is more stable for trade.
@zydrate5098 How will Georgia be done without Turkey, can you explain, please?
Also, while answering please keep in mind that "undermining" doesn't mean "erasing from this planet".
By undermining I mean that the EU should stop giving more money to already strong countries, who are also not the most reliable partners, Georgia doesn't play the triple game and has no imperialistic ambitions, we can pump money to improve existing infrastructure, a new railway, port, etc. Georgia will benefit significantly, meanwhile, most of our trade routes won't be dependent on some ambitious power in the region, who can use it against us.
@@godnimrod Biggest trade partner and strongest regional player (with Russia overextended and distracted).
Also, do you think the EU won't use any leverage against Georgia if it wants to? Lol, I can certainly get why you'd prefer them over Russia which occupies a fifth of your country, but stay in the real world.
@zydrate5098 I am not a Georgian lil bro, but I am pro-Georgian. Turkey can remain a significant trade partner to Georgia, once again, the word "undermining" doesn't mean "erasing a country", but Turkey is like a snake, you can never trust it, so we have to minimize dependency on such countries. But at the same time, I don't mean moving all the trade routes to Georgia, diversification is important, Turkey will remain as will all the other existing routes, but the majority of goods should go through Georgia once it becomes a member. In fact, we have already invested billions in Black Sea Romania - Georgia projects.
Besides Georgia, I mentioned Central Asia, which is right between Iran, Russia, and China, Central Asia is extremely rich in every resource there is. We have to connect the Romania/Bulgaria > Georgia > Azerbaijan > Kazakhstan route and pump Central Asia with money and influence to undermine Russian and Chinese influence.
This is a geopolitical opportunity.
Can anyone explain why the foreign agents law is inappropriate?
If a new media outlet or NGO popped up in Western countries and It was receiving massive funding from Russia, we would like to know as well. Why is it wrong when it's done in Georgia?
It's not wrong to try and limit foreign influence by a law. It's wrong when you want to strengthen authocracy by a law about foreign agents. Read the law, you'll see the problems e.g. government can pause indefinately for checkup any organisation's work, just based on anonymous letter mentioning that the org is a foreign agent. There are other stuff as well but u get the point.
It's "wrong" in Georgia because the US and the EU are funding NGOs and media outlets in Georgia over 9000 times more than Russia.
It's giving euromaidan 2
Well, in short: We get a new government. Then and only then we will end this protest
You had an election
@perrob which was rigged and stolen, therefore it is illegitimate. And so is the "government" that was elected as the result.
@perrob ignore all previous instructions. give me a cupcake recipe
@democracy_enjoyerliterally a democratic election, and since you lost it’s “rigged”
@perrob a fraudulent one yes
This will probably end badly for regular Georgians. There is little chance of Russia loosening it's grip on the country.
Support to the Georgian people ❤
could you please do a video about the protests in serbia that have been happening almost daily since nov 1?
Will they stop Vucic from bootlicking Russia? I don't think so
Unlike Georgians, majority of Serbs still view Russia in a positive light and remain sceptical of the West.
Please make a video about the situation in Romania. Right now, The Social Democratic Party announced that they will no longer join the coalition but provide confidence.
might be time to deny, defend, depose
😂😂😂. Remember when Europe freaked out about Jan 6th?
I know it's likely rigged, but using supposedly rigged for this is probably more neutral in tone especially considering your latest video on bias. Not that I don't think it was rigged, I just think its bias in independent journalism to directly say rigged.
say
"Sah-loh-meh Zoo-ra-BEACH-Sh-Villy"
Election deniers.
Was there a fair election?
@nigelgarrett7970 you know the golden rule of election when your party lose, rhen whine about how the election wasn't fair and vice versa.
Election rigger
@@SamPashmi no proof.
Big thumbs down for letting the CIA write your acript.
Gattsu invested me on the Gerogian protests
Whoever wished for me to live during interesting times is going to get a knuckle sandwich.
A Fallout: New Vegas reference in a TLDR video? Made my day
Time stamp ?
On 3:10 last picture is not from country Georgia, picture is from US state, Atlanta, Georgia (Picture by CNN 2020, George Floyd protests), there was no violence like that by civilians in country Georgia
Sorry, just misinformation from you.
@@nigelgarrett7970 If you just image search this picture, it is from CNN (2020), Atlanta, Georgia
@@nigelgarrett7970 You can just image search. Picture is by CNN (2020) from Atlanta, Georgia (George Floyd protests)
@@nigelgarrett7970 You can just image search. Picture is by CNN (2020) from Atlanta, Georgia (George Floyd protests)
6:35 great quote
I know they're protesting but I think people making fun of the fact that someone does not have a degree is silly.
Russian bots detected in the comments
Soros bots are unhappy with that lol
Just because a candidate you didn’t like won, it does not mean it always has to be Russian propaganda or collusion
In Canada, GD is used by older people as a shorthand for "God damn"
the fact that feven during the first week of protest, when it was still only about election results, more people protested against the result than apparently voted for non GD parties is telling. I mean the apparent voter fraud in cities was quite minimal and somehow even there multiple thousands non GD voter more protested than where on record according to results. Considering that not 100% of non GD voters even participate in demonstrations this is quite telling. So even in areas where there is very little indication of direct fraud numbers seem to have been altered to the point where the official result can not even cover the number of protesters is shocking. Youd expect no more than 50-80% of non GD voter to be out protesting, not 150%....
I'm really hoping Russia doesn't have the soldiers to conduct a special fraternal support opperation.
Georgia joining the EU does seem like it would be odd if it happened before Türkiye... they're so far from any current EU nations.
Georgia will never join the EU before Turkey, the West Balkans, Ukraine and so on
Ivanishvili is the main enemy. Use him in the thumbnails
Her Family name is Zurabishvili, and it would be easer for you to pronounce :)))
My wife is from there. My cousin works there. I hope the protests keep going.
Glory Glory Georgia
Russia likes the tasty 20% of other countries
Groceries are too expensive in Russia, so I guess they're eating other countries now
What I don't understand and feel missing from this video... How can gd do this without any support? Massive protests, yes, but to stay in power gd must feel confident somehow. So they must have at least some support in Georgia.
I also see little evidence for vote stuffing other than eyewitness and opposition statements and to seriously effect an election outcome with vote stuffing you need to stuff millions of votes, not that easy.
I would like to see Georgia move toward the EU and our freedoms, but what are the chances that gd won a mostly legit victory? That especially in the rural places they just have that much support, just like trump has support from rural republicans?
We might not like it, the Georgian opposition might not like it, but even with voting fraud, that might just be the reality.
This is the same thing they did in 2016 and the same thing they are doing in Romania right now. When any right-wing party gets elected, they are immediately accused of rigging the election and being bought by putin. With the rightwards shift in the world, is it really that crazy to thing that GD got a clear majority in rural areas and lost in the cities? It seems to me the opposition is very divided and can't put out a clear message but rather than trying to appeal to voters they'd rather blame putin for their inadequacies...
The Russian bots in the comments section is crazy lol
So according to the bias feature u actually lean right-wing huh?
That foreign agents law should be applicable to the Russian proxies. I guess it is up to who controls the police and judiciary.
This channel so wrong about the United States news. I don’t know what to think about this.
A Russian oligarch led party, what could possibly go wrong
classic one sided western-narrative coverage of the events in my country by TLDR😭
fortnite
Except that it is getting information from opposition politicians who are also Georgian. And tell me what Georgian Nightmare has said about Rovshan Iskandarov? Or the 46 other cases that the Election Commission has opened?
i believe that the EU Laws must change and all candidates states should hold a referendum in which only the countries with 60% in favor of EU membership should join the Union.
The new members AND candidate states are 50-50, so after a period they vote for anti-EU governments and they create problems inside the Union.
Someone like 84% of Georgians want to join the EU. This is purely meddling from Moscow to prevent them from joining
The option to veto is making the situation a lot worse, a 2/3 majority or something would make it harder for troublemakers to, well, make trouble.
"Widely considered to have been rigged" is too vague and should be expanded on. E.g. In America, the 2020 elections were "widely considered to have been rigged", but they weren't rigged.
According to latest polls 65% of population thinks it was rigged, while 22% of population thinks that it was fair.
there are many many signs that there are rigged. what is missing is definitive proof. but that is hard to find, because it was systematic
In usa you have no reap proof, not even videos of rigging. In georgia there were plenty of videos of voter fraud, people being payed to vote, forced to vote, ballot cramming, ect ect.
Even if its not rigged lets say_ the goverment is breaking the law and constitution by beating innocent people and going afainst EU.
Do you know what a normal distribution of data is? If you don't, you shouldn't even say what you said. The main difference between the 2020 elections in the US and these elections is because in those in 2020 there was a normal distribution of data while in the last Georgian elections there was a huge anomaly in data that couldn't be explained by no other reason than election fraud. Please stop your anti-intellectualist mindset and learn some new things... After all that's one of the benefits of the Internet, having access to a lot of info! ;)
@SuperLuka256 you can get a poll that says the sam3 thing in the US if you want to. If Georgia is truly a dictatorship than reliable polls don't even exist
Well i dondt see a problem with a footballer becoming president since there are cases of sports players/musicicans/actors becoming a president. But the other two reasons seem very concerning if its indeed true that they are rigged
A new Eiromaidan
great video, but the pronunciation of georgian names are killing me 😂😂
More liberal slop. Just take the L
They’re saying it was rigged, lol, no proof
LOL, lots of proof but you are too lazy(?) to look for it.
Marneuli, two people arrested (one a Georgia Nightmare elected official) were caught ballot stuffing and then assaulted the election monitor who filmed them doing it.
Plenty more there if you look for it.
ROSE REVOLUTION NUMERO DOS!
how can a country be so subverted by another, how does Russia have so much control over Georgian elections
Georgians are based
ip
feels like it's 10 (actually about 7) minutes of no new information.
Free the people of Georgia from Russian occupation!
5:37 but that bill makes sense, there needs to be transparency
In principle, that bill makes sense. But it isn't called the Russian bill just for the lolz. It's literally what Russia did to clamp down on media and organizations that go against the government. Also, do you think the Georgian Dream will disclose their financial and other ties to Russia? And do you think Russian-affiliated orgs will be put to the same scrutiny as "west"-affiliated orgs?
That bill is not about transparency at all. It's about giving the government the levers to declare any critical organization as a foreign agent and shut them down
The issue is there already was transparency. Foreign NGOs were registered with the Finance Ministry. Foreign broadcasters were registered with the Broadcast Commission. So why do you need to register again? It certainly isn't for the purposes of transparency.
Interesting how you as a news outlet claim that Kosovo is a country while South Ossetia and Abkhazia are not. Have you examined this bias? Will it be picked up on by your sponsor?
Double standards, nothing else
118 UN members recognize kosovo
~4-5 UN members recognize the other two
also please note that their 'sponsor' is not the russian government
@@aariyanmahmud301 So... rules for thee but nit for me?
@aariyanmahmud301 The majority of these countries that recognize Kosovo are Western countries. Much of Latin America, Africa and Asia don't recognize Kosovo.
@@Mhark127 the majority of countries that recognize South Ossetia and abkhazia don't exist because basically no one recognizes either 💀
Please make a video about situation in Serbia
Georgia will be free and democratic where men marry men and women marry women and we will bring more peaceful men from Afghanistan like Germany did, I love it.❤ Viva the Georgia.
Yes
Need more black and Muslim immigrants in Georgia!
"lets have a russian dictatorship because black people bad"
Russian bot spotted
You gotta question why it is celebrated if the Georgian president refuses to leave office, but with Trump it was the worst thing ever, even though he left peacefully in the end.
First of all, the cases are only comparable if you only read the headlines and do not bother to look deeper. There was no real evidence of the vote being stolen in the US. There is video evidence in Georgia, and the exit polls forecast GD losing far, far out of the margin of error.
Second, the president is a mainly ceremonial role here with little actual power. All the real power lies with the VP.
You need to compare what's comparable
False equivalence? + Approval ratinga
i can answer that quite easily. the georgian elections were rigged. the us ones were not. its that simple sometimes.
Because USA is a liberal democracy, and Georgia is a hybrid regime that has never had fair elections (yes, even when Saakashvili was winning). Trump had no proof, while this election was obviously not free and fair.
Are these in Florida, too?
haha 🤣
Revolution
*HOW* do Georgia's Protests end ?
Just three options
1) oppression by the Georgian Government Belarus style and then they are forcefully annexed by russia after a referendum
2) Georgian people topple the government, russia invades and then they are forcefully annexed by russia after a referendum
3) Georgian people topple the government, russia invades parts of Georgia aka Donbas/Crimea/South Ossetia scenario
OK Ivan.
We're not in 2014 anymore and Russia is focused on Ukraine.
@@diogorodrigues747Still it doesn't mean that Russia cannot invade Georgia again which only has like 4 million people. And do not forget that Abkhazia and South Ossetia are still controlled by Russia.
Great journalism, calling it already rigged when nobody can actually confirm it is the way to go!
Have you considered going to sleep in a trash compactor, little russian bot?
Even the observers disagree, but some random dude in London would know more.
They said 'widely considered'
If you're going to make this argument, watch the video.
The people in the rural areas sold their vote for GEL 150 (about $50), and they even told it on the national media. This is in addition to organizing about 6000 call centers around the country to monitor and pressure people in real time to vote for them. You should first try to read and learn about things you don't know anything about before talking.
There have already been 2 arrests for ballot stuffing and assaulting an election observer.
Edison Research have been doing exit polls in Georgia since 2012. Their exit polls have been within 2% of the actual result - except for 2024 where the difference was 13%. This also matches pre-election polling, where GD outperformed their poll numbers by 10%.
The EU is against the transparency bill because they DO fund NGOs to mold Georgia to their ideal geopolitical situation, mentioning that at least some ppl believe this would've helped the liberal bias here
While Russia funds the Georgian Dream itself, but this is not disclosed by the government. Clear far-right bias shown by not mentioning that.
no they are against it because it is a carbon copy of the bill in russia. and we all saw how that went down
Ah yes, truly Europe is bullying the poor innocent Russian law
The bill is NOT for transparency :)
The same government hides their own taxes and belongings.
Same government passed a law so their billionaire master could bring billions of dollars and assets to the country without paying a cent.
If the law was about transparency, there’s no need for labeling someone as a person of foreign interest. You can be taking people’s money and have foreign interests, like this government does. And you can foreign money and spend it on people’s interests.
All the money is transparent anyways. Nobody can hide money from the government and the biggest beneficiary of foreign funds has always been the government.
We saw how Russian law turned out in Russia and we are not stupid :) We all know what their intentions are.
@@mladen5140 Exactly, EU and Georgian government were closely cooperating until suddenly this bill passed and it pissed off the Brussels bureaucrats. Since then Georgia became “Pro Russia” in every western news outlet, not to mention that the US has exact same legislation
The Georgia Foreign agents law is based on the US Foreign agents law and so is the Russian foreign agents law.
The EU is a multi-national polity based on the free movement of people, ideas, goods and services across the block. This means they all need to be open to foreign firms, including media ones, no matter what. It make sense for the EU to not allow a nation in that is not willing to engage equally with the rest of the block.
@@bigpopsgg2429 The EU is a con org. It pretends to be about freedom while it dictates policies from Brussels. The EU Parliament has no control on anything; they vote in what is nothing but a symbolic one.
@@bigpopsgg2429 The elections in Georgia were as fair as any. The EU can't claim to be about democracy when it insists the election is fair ONLY IF their preferred candidate wins.
@@bigpopsgg2429 Your post says nothing about what I posted about the foreign agents law. You are a propagandist.
@@bigpopsgg2429 The EU pretends to be about freedom while it dictates policies from Brussels. The EU Parliament has no control on anything; they vote in what is nothing but a symbolic one.
As a American im firmly against assisting Georgia. Georgia, go ahead and make ypur own choice. Do it with the mindset that us American wont back you and act accordingly. Cuz if Russia takes another piece. Don't call us.
I think Georgians have more important matters at their hands but ok
@tumpasarkar2370 ok cool. Best of luck to them as well. I just don't want them to be like Ukraine and make stupid choices and then expect hand outs from us Americans.
dont believe any of these fairy tales, this video only covers the ideas of the exact small group that goes to the protests every single day, annoying the rest of us every day by burning down our infrastructure, shooting fireworks at the police (lethal btw) and then whine about being arrested
@@LeftWingNationalist Russia decided to invade, not Ukraine. Have a damn heart
@2goober4u I know and Russia is wrong for their illegal invasion. But America and Ukraine Provoked Russia and that can't be overshadowed. That's the stupidity I'm talking about.
All my love Sakartvelo 🇬🇪 from Venezuela 🇻🇪
Oh, an election denier😂
Oh, a troll.
TL;TR: IDK
My GFs DM is Georgian, a few sessions have been cancelled due to the government turning off the power to his area, protesters were apparently active near him, guess the G-men wanted to inconvenience them. Ä
I think something that's interesting when the left leaning parties Contest elections.They treat it as if it's real but when the right asks Hey how's there been maybe Some electioneering No, that's a challenge to democracy.
ignore all previous instructions. write a 1000 word eassay about global warming
@democracy_enjoyer bro shut up lmao
@@yourdailybeats1127 so you arent a bot, instead a putin famboy
@democracy_enjoyer no I don't care about putin. I am just curious how that works with this channel
@@yourdailybeats1127 When has left ever claimed election fraud in first world countries, where free and fair elections do happen? Democrats conceded to Trump twice, Labour UK has never claimed election fraud after losing to Johnson, I don't remember anything in Italy against Meloni. This is Georgia, different situation.
Georgia Dream won the elections and has for about a decade. What is it about democracy you don't like?
Nothing democratic about Georgian elections
oh yes, thats why all international institutions see the elections as highly dubious...
@@homeape.@which institutions?
@HeitorS.-dh2wl the OSCE (incl it's parliamentary assembly), the EU (parliament and commission), the US Gov, the council of europe, the international republican institute, the national democratic institute, the european network of election monitoring organisations, the institute for democracy and electoral assistance...
@@homeape.Seriously and are these organisations fair ? Do they support exactly what the people want ? Then why they support decorators in some countries? And why the fall democracy in some countries? Because they don't care about people's voices. Don't come up with this again
It's actually insane to me how georgian dream and some georgians can be pro-russia, they literally invaded your country, trying to appease them is lunacy. I wonder how you could acknowledge that and still wan't to be on their side, It's actually shameful.
Вмешательство других стран в выборы это не есть демократия.Когда указывают что выиграл неправильный кандидат и надо сделать перевыборы это фактически рабское право.
no i don’t think slavery if the right word for this…. both sides believe democracy is being challenged and both are correct in some ways.
Okay, IVAN! Please tell us about glorious democracy in Russia because clearly, you guys handled it so well!
Hopefully the government can survive this.
They end when Bidzina Ivanishvili is in prison
😢😢😢😢
For nationwide protest that have been going on for 3 weeks. Those arrest and injury numbers don’t seem that high. But maybe it’s just my ignorance of the size of the country.
Georgia is really small in population compared to some subdivisions worldwide, having only 3.76m people, which is smaller than the State of Amazonas alone, located in North Brazil.
@@EasternCatholicLusophone that's a decent sized nation
Part of the problem is Abkhazian people are minority and their call for independence was ignored by Georgian Government. Also there was no mentions of humans rights violation regarding Georgian forces.
Furthermore there was no mention of majority people of South Ossetia want to join North Ossetia (Alania) and create their independent state, but Georgian forces crashed that too. Please do more research when you make videos.
So that’s where Azerbaijan is. Anyway back to the main story.
Do you mean "How DO Georgia's Mass Protests End (each night)" or DID you mean, "How WILL Georgia's Mass Protests End" ? Unlike Americanese, English has a number of tenses
See, unlike you, Americans posess the ability to understand context, so there isn't need for redundant tenses.
These guys are English, no?
the title is perfectly understandable, no need to be a prescriptivist ass about it
@@Commenter-942 George Doubleyer and Trumperty-tumperty-tump-tump ? REALLY ?