People are chanting "Sakartvelo"🔥
Free Georgians are gathering in Rustaveli. we are taking another step towards the European Union and thereby moving away from rotten Russia!‼️
Protesters blocked Rustaveli Avenue in the center of Tbilisi 🔥🔥🔥
Students from more than 40 universities are sent here in a procession. There are already more than 2 thousand free people! t.me/c/1784704508/1…
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The Russian Ministry of Economic Development recommended that Russians "refrain from traveling to Georgia."
“If you are already in the country, we recommend avoiding visiting crowded places, in particular the historical centers of the cities of Batumi and Tbilisi,” -
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the ministry said.
Russians, we will tell you more: Upper Lars is open. Yes, there are traffic jams, but this is only because your relatives listened to the voice of the Georgian streets. And you listen to him, we are not happy for you‼️ ‼️
President Salome Zurabishvili made an appeal and congratulated the public ❤️❤️❤️ formulanews.ge/News/86733
"I want to congratulate the society on the first such victory. I welcome the correct decision of the government. This decision to take into account the real -
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strength of the people - what appeared on the streets of Tbilisi, the unity, the will of the people was unusually obvious"
According to her, the recommendation on depolarization has been implemented because the whole society has united against this bill
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At the next action at the Parliament of Georgia, it was reported that the "Georgian Legion" transferred money from Ukraine to feed the participants of the action‼️‼️‼️
Our heroes!
+ Anthem in Kutaisi🇬🇪🇬🇪🇬🇪
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There are a lot of us
We all came out to support our freedom and independence!
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There are also many of us in Batumi🔥🔥🔥
❗️ The mayor of the capital, Kakha Kaladze, thanks the Minister of Internal Affairs and the security forces for the fact that on March 7 and 8 they defended the rule of law with high professionalism, -
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the fundamental value of the European family was beaten and shot at the protesters😡😡😡
The representative of Azerbaijanis in Georgia appealed to his compatriots to join the action :
“My dear Azerbaijani Georgians, today, as your representative I want to become your voice -
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We [Azerbaijani Georgians] have been fighting for the development and defense of our homeland for centuries. And now I urge you to join us.”
The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia announced that all those detained on March 7-8 were released.
BRAUD LIE. Lawyers have been looking for people for the second day and cannot find them😡😡😡 t.me/c/1784704508/1…
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More than 20 thousand people are now at a protest near the Parliament of Georgia🔥🔥🔥
Protesters hold posters "Freedom", "No to Russian law" and "I'm not afraid"
A minute of silence passed for the dead Georgian volunteers who fought against Russia on the side of Ukraine🙏
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Here is the answer😡😡😡
Released those who were on administrative offenses! Those who were arrested on criminal charges are still in custody !!!
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These posters are pasted over the walls of Parliament 🔥🔥🔥
The Georgian authorities are depicted wearing ties in the colors of the Russian flag. The QR code leads to a video with the title "Georgian people deserve more." In it, this phrase is repeated in a row by -
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several people.
At the end of the video there is a quote from the Gospel: “Do not throw your pearls in front of pigs, so that they do not trample it with their feet and, turning, do not tear you to pieces.”
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At a rally in front of the parliament in Tbilisi, an appeal was made to the President of Georgia to convene an extraordinary session of parliament‼️‼️
"The will of the people regarding the revocation of the law on foreign agents should be formalized legally, -
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without delay," Lelo representative Anna Natsvlishvili said. Opposition deputies are addressing the president, she said.
According to Natsvlishvili, "if Georgian Dream is sincere in its statement today about withdrawing the draft law, "then it should not be against it."
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The inscription on the poster: "You can't poison me with gas - my ex is much more toxic"👏👏👏
The protesters are ironic about the actions of the security forces, who have been poisoning civilians with gas for two days.
The plenary session of the Georgian Parliament will be held tomorrow, March 10. Earlier, the legislature announced the cancellation of meetings for the current week‼️‼️‼️
Deputies will meet tomorrow to fail the vote on the bill on "foreign agents" in the second reading‼️‼️‼️
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The Bureau will meet at 11.45, and in 15 minutes - the plenary session‼️‼️‼️
Earlier, the parliamentary apparatus stated that this was impossible due to infrastructure damage during protest riots‼️‼️‼️
The best solution for them would be self-dissolution of parliament😡😡😡
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We stand and loudly let the parliament know that our choice is not their desire for Russia, our choice is the European Union🔥🔥🔥
Once such a law was adopted, it will be adopted again. They beat our protesting friends - they will beat them again. These people don't change!
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The rally in front of the parliament in Tbilisi is still going on and going smoothly, but people are already starting to disperse. The organizers of the action urged to meet again tomorrow at 11:00 am to follow the course of the plenary session /36 twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
The anthem of Ukraine sounds🇬🇪🤝🇺🇦
The son of the third president of Georgia Nikoloz Saakashvili and ex-wife / first lady Sandra Roelofs at the rally near the Parliament of Georgia❤️
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The Georgian Interior Ministry denied media reports that tear gas was used in the Freedom Square metro station last night to disperse the rally.
1/ Slovak Prime Minister Fico force to fly around the houses on his way to Moscow
Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico was forced to take the long way round on his trip to Moscow to attend Russia’s Victory Parade on Red Square on May 9.
His plans to accept Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invitation to attend the annual parade that this year commemorates the 80th anniversary of the end of WWII got the kybosh after #Lithuania, #Latvia, and #Poland all closed their airspace to his official aircraft, ignoring an agreement that should have given him automatic permission to cross their airspace.
Flying over #Ukraine, another shorter route, is also not possible as it has closed its airspace since 2022 due to Russia's invasion
2/ Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine three years ago, the EU banned all EU members from attending any public events in #Russia.
Fico has chosen to ignore the boycott as Slovakia remains dependent on Russian gas and Fico is a vocal critic of Brussels support of Ukraine and its plans to allow it to join the EU.
Fico’s plane took off in the afternoon of May 8 and will fly over Turkey and Azerbaijan before entering the Russian Federation via the southern republic of Dagestan, before flying north to Moscow where it is expected to arrive at 9:30pm local time.
A visibly furious Fico released a videoed public statement complaining the Baltics and Poland’s decision to cancel Slovakia’s overflight rights had screwed up his schedule and meant that he would make it on time for a slew of official meetings that had been prearranged. "This is exceptionally complicating our schedule...,"he said. The decisions were a "strange demonstration of sovereignty," he added
3/ Speaking to Slovak broadcaster RTVS, he said: “They closed the airspace above the Baltic countries and Poland for the governmental special plane. I take that as a strange demonstration of sovereignty, but if someone thinks they will deter me with such steps, they are very wrong.”
Fico is one of only two European leaders who will attend the event. Serbian President Aleksander Vucic arrived in Moscow on May 6 and posted a video of himself on Red Square early in the morning of May 7. Serbia is not an EU member, but is a candidate state, but following Vucic’s decision to defy the EU boycott of Russian events the candidature is now in danger, say experts.
1/ Germany has transferred a new package of military aid to Ukraine: what will the Armed Forces of Ukraine receive? obozrevatel.com/ukr/novosti-mi…
2/ Germany continues to provide Ukraine with weapons and equipment from its own reserves and through financing industrial supplies.
In total, approximately 28 billion euros in military assistance has already been allocated or is plannedobozrevatel.com/ukr/location/g…
3/ The new package includes both the transfer of equipment from the Bundeswehr arsenals and payment for supplies from manufacturers from the state budget, the German Chancellor's website reported bundeskanzler.de/bk-de/aktuelle…
The new German aid package will include:
1. Armored combat vehicles:
• 66 mine and ambush-protected MRAP vehicles;
• ammunition for LEOPARD 2 main battle tanks.
2. Air defense:
• four kinetic defense vehicles (Diehl Defense);
• 38,000 units of GEPARD anti-aircraft ammunition;
• IRIS-T SLM missile. 3. Artillery and other weapons:
• three Zuzana 2 wheeled howitzers (the project is jointly funded by Denmark and Norway);
• 27,000 rounds of 155mm artillery ammunition;
• 1,000 rounds of 122mm artillery ammunition;
• 3,769 G3 assault rifles;
• 800 MK 556 assault rifles.
4. Drones and drone protection:
• 70 VECTOR reconnaissance drones with spare parts;
• 150 armed HF-1 drones;
• 10 ground drones.
5. Pioneer skills:
• 26 Bergepanzer 2 with spare parts;
• four WISENT 1 demining machines with spare parts;
• two trawls for mine clearance.
6. Protective and special equipment:
• 41 ground surveillance radars;
.•187 laser rangefinders;
• 92 infrared binoculars;
• 55 diving scooters;
• three border vehicles;
• 150,000 harnesses;
• 534 sleeping bags
• For security reasons, the federal government has refrained from providing further details, especially regarding the terms and timing of deliveries, until the transfer takes place.
In fact, the destruction of enemy aircraft is nothing new. Last year alone, #Ukrainian defenders "minused" more than 80 #Russian planes and helicopters.
But the uniqueness of this situation is that naval drones were used for the strike, which served as a platform for American AIM-9 Sidewinder missiles.
- And this is where #Ukrainian know-how lies, because naval drones are a priori designed to strike ships, not aircraft
3/ This opens up new opportunities for Ukraine, in particular, it allows creating mobile air defense not from systems costing hundreds of millions of dollars, but from drones.
1/ Ukraine and the US signed an agreement on minerals: what is known
Economy Minister Yulia Svyrydenko showed a photo of the signing of the Agreement on the Establishment of the US-Ukraine Reconstruction Investment Fund.
The agreement still needs to be ratified by the Verkhovna Rada - without this, the agreement will not be implemented
It provides for the creation of a joint investment fund, which will be replenished from the development of Ukrainian subsoil.
According to the updated text of the agreement, Ukraine retains ownership of all subsoil and does not have to repay old "debts" .
The agreement complies with the Ukrainian Constitution and does not change the European integration course.
- However, the document still needs to be ratified by the Verkhovna Rada - without this, the agreement will not be implemented
3/ The signing of the historic document was announced by the First Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine, Minister of Economy of Ukraine Yulia Svyrydenko.
She signed the document on the Ukrainian side. On the US side, the document was signed by Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent.facebook.com/yulia.svyryden…
1/ "Tanks or pensions": The Economist wrote about Putin's dilemma that could change the course of the war
Russia's economy , which until recently showed signs of stability, is rapidly losing ground under the influence of internal and external factors.
- The Goldman Sachs High-Frequency Index shows a sharp slowdown in Russia's annual economic growth from about 5% at the end of last year to almost zero economist.com/finance-and-ec…
2/ The Russian government, despite the caution of official statements, acknowledges the existence of problems . In early April, the central bank stated that recently "a number of sectors have recorded a decline in production due to a sharp drop in demand."
According to the publication, after the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, economists predicted a drop in Russia's annual GDP of up to 15%. In fact, that year there was a decrease of 1.4%, and in the following years there was a growth of 4.1% in 2023 and 4.3% in 2024.
Journalists identified three main reasons for the slowdown in annual economic growth in Russia
3/ The first of these is related to the "structural transformation" of the economy, as the Russian Central Bank calls it.
Before the start of the full-scale war in Ukraine, the Russian economy was oriented towards the West and allowed private entrepreneurship, but after 2022 it acquired the features of a military economy with an eastern orientation.
This restructuring required significant financial investments
The second factor influencing economic growth is monetary policy, experts say .
It is noted that inflation in Russia has exceeded the central bank's target of 4% annually for several months in a row, reaching over 10% in February and March.
One of the reasons for this is significant military spending, as well as a labor shortage caused by mobilization and emigration of qualified specialists
Nominal wages rose by 18% last year, leading companies to raise prices. In response, the central bank tightened monetary policy.
- On April 25, it decided to leave the key interest rate at 21%, the highest level since the early 2000s.
The third reason for the slowdown in economic growth, journalists say, -
- is the deterioration of the external economic situation amid the trade war with the United States , which led to a sharp drop in oil prices.
It is noted that with a decrease in export revenues, the drop in oil prices directly affects the real sector of the economy
2/ Russian dictator Vladimir Putin continues to refuse any ceasefire against Ukraine except on terms that facilitate his military efforts.
So his announcement of yet another unilateral “truce” – this time in honor of the Soviet and Russian military holiday of May 9 – is yet another attempt by the Kremlin obozrevatel.com/entity/kreml/
- to hold legitimate negotiations hostage in order to secure further concessions from Kyiv and Washington.
- It is emphasized that the international war criminal, while allegedly demonstrating a desire to end the war, at the same time continues to reject the American-Ukrainian proposal for a 30-day general ceasefire from March 2025 and uses unilateral agreements to achieve informational and combat advantages.