1 month agoPresident Zurabishvili addressed the rally at the Rustaveli Avenue on October 28. “No one, except the one who just passed by (referring to Hungarian PM Orban, who is staying nearby, in the hotel on Rustaveli Avenue, and recently arrived in Tbilisi), recognizes these elections.”
1 month agoFootage shows Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban leaving his hotel in Tbilisi, near the Georgian parliament where tens of thousands gather right now to protest election rigging, as he was met with loud boos from the crowd on his way to his escort
1 month agoPeople are gathering on Rustaveli avenue to protest rigged elections
1 month agoRustaveli Av. has been blocked due to a protest rally. The President of Georgia, along with the 4 major opposition coalitions that passed the election threshold, has called on citizens to take to the streets to protest ‘rigged elections’
1 month agoTbilisi Now: Rustaveli is FULL. The President, along with key opposition parties (signatories of the Georgian Charter) is expected soon
President @Zourabichvili_S declares the election results illegitimate, calls it a Russian special operation, and announces a protest rally on Monday at 19:00 Tbilisi time
"The results do not represent the will of the Georgian people," states Giorgi Gakharia, leader of the For Georgia party. With that, all four opposition groups who passed the threshold according to the CEC are now aligned in declaring the elections rigged and refusing to recognize the results.
1 month agoWith 99% of poling stations in Georgia counted, the Central Election Commission is granting 54.23% to Georgian Dream
1 month agoUnited opposition doesn't recognize election results saying that elections were "Stolen". They said they will switch to protest mode
70.749% of the votes have been counted. According to preliminary data from the Central Election Commission (CEC): Georgian Dream: 52.9%; Coalition for Change: 11.2%; Unity: 9.8%; Strong Georgia: 9.03%; For Georgia: 8.23%
1 month agoGeorgia: Turnout was 58.94%, with 2,060,412 people having voted by 8 p.m., an increase of nearly two percent over the previous election. Polls closed after 8 p.m. after all those in line had cast their ballots, although the CEC said it had not yet received data from five polling stations in the high mountain regions. This turnout figure does not include voters abroad
1 month agoMtavari TV exit poll results of parliament elections in Georgia: Pro-European opposition - 48%; Georgian Dream - 42%; GD - 42% Coalition for Change -18% UNM - 13% Strong Georgia - 9% Gakharia for Georgia - 8%
1 month agoThree exit polls show dramatically conflicting results as both the ruling party and the opposition claim and celebrate victory. Polls are closed
President of Georgia: European Georgia is winning with 52 % despite attempts to rigg elections and without votes from the diaspora
1 month agoA video appeared on social media showing riot police being mobilized in the government building in Tbilisi
1 month agoTurnout 22.22% as of 12 p.m. 776,726 people have already voted, according to CEC - almost three percent increase from previous elections
1 month agoBallot casting at the 69th precinct in Marneuli, our observer was assaulted for recording this
1 month agoPolls opened across Georgia at 8 a.m. as crucial voting kicks off. Nearly 3.5 million voters have until 8 p.m. to cast their ballots, with most using electronic technologies. The vote is widely seen as a referendum between Europe and Russia
1 month ago1 Rosguard serviceman killed, another wounded as result of attack on their truck at Petropavlovskaya village of Grozny district of Chechen Republic. Security services are looking for attackers
Armenia proposed Azerbaijan to provide communication with Nakhichevan with simplified border and customs control procedures — Pashinyan
1 month agoThe Georgian Police are raiding Tbilisi HQ of Concentrix, a California based company and a subsidiary of SYNEX Corporation (NSYE: SNX) with the Concentrixitself being part of the Fortune 500 list. The company employees are told they will be unable to enter the office premises today.
1 month agoThe houses of @EtoBuziashvili and @SGelava, researchers at the Atlantic Council’s @DFRLab, are being searched. The Investigation Service of the Ministry of Finance has entered Eto’s apartment, and devices at Sopo’s home are being seized. The “investigation” is underway under three articles, just two days before Georgia’s parliamentary elections
2 month agoThousands have gathered at Tbilisi's Liberty Square for the "Georgia chooses the European Union" demonstration happening now
President Zurabishvili promised to join participants of “Georgia chooses Europe” rally planned for October 20. She called on Georgians not to be afraid of intimidation and threats, to join the march the next day and to vote on October 26
The West wants to "light a fire" and destabilize the situation between Abkhazia, South Ossetia and Georgia in order to open a second front against Russia, - Russian FM Lavrov said
2 month agoRussia and Iran are ready to facilitate the normalization of Armenian-Turkish relations - Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov
2 month agoPhoto op of the foreign ministers of Iran, Russia, Armenia, Turkey, and Azerbaijan in 3+3 format meeting in Istanbul
2 month ago@EUCouncil reiterates its serious concern regarding the Georgian course of action taken by government, which runs counter to the values and principles upon which the EU is founded. Such a course of action jeopardises Georgian European path, and de facto halts the accession process
The State Security Service of Georgia claims that “groups linked to political circles are planning to spread fabricated and falsified video/audio recordings through AI and other modern technologies in the days leading up to the upcoming parliamentary elections.”
Aliyev called the proposal of the Armenian authorities to sign peace on the basis of the agreed provisions of the peace treaty and leave the unagreed ones for later "far from reality"
