While the old year ended with a new but illegitimate president alongside an „old“ but legitimate one, the people in Georgia started the new year with continued protests on the streets of Tbilisi and in many other cities across Georgia, calling for new elections and the liberation of all detained protesters.
But there were also interesting write-ups about what’s going on. The student and activist Gocha Gogsadze wrote about „everything you didn’t realize you needed to know about Georgia’s protests“.
Rasa Jukneviciene, Lithuanian member of the European Parliament also serving as „Permanent Rapporteur on Georgian Affairs at the European Parliament“, drew a wider panorama providing background about Georgia and beyond, mentioning that what is happening in Georgia „… is one of the episodes in Russia’s centuries-long imperial actions and Putin’s hybrid war against democracies.“
Meanwhile, for the first time ever, local businesses have announced a three-hour strike on January 15.
