8chan/8kun QResearch Posts (8)
#19655481 at 2023-10-03 03:21:37 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #24134: Top Comfy Edition
2 Oct, 2023 18:44
Ex-Soviet state claims US funding 'violent' color revolution plotters
Georgia has raised the alarm over USAID-funded 'violent uprising' activists
The Georgian government said on Monday it had interrogated agitators from a US-funded group planning to unleash a violent color revolution. The group was previously involved in the 2003 civil unrest in the country.
The head of the ruling party explained that he is seeking an explanation from Washington. TheUS embassy in Tbilisi didn't deny bankrolling the outfit, but said its activities were about supporting Georgian democracy.
According to Georgia's State Security Service (SUS), three Serbian nationals from the organization called CANVAS arrived in Georgia last week and met with local activists at a Tbilisi hotel to train themhow to "overthrow the government by violent means."
The "destructive and illegal actions" would target the government, security services, and the Orthodox Church, using techniques such as roadblocks and setting up protest encampments in front of government buildings, the SUS said. CANVAS activists also showed examples from Serbia on how to invade the parliament, take broadcasting services offline, and overthrow the government, according to the security agency.
When questioned by the SUS on September 29, Sinisa Sikman, Jelena Stoisic, and Slobodan Djinovic allegedly "tried to disguise the real reason for their stay in Georgia" and provided testimonies that contradicted evidence obtained by the investigators. The trio left Georgia the following day.
Commenting on the SUS report, leader of the ruling Georgian Dream party Irakli Kobakhidze told local media on Monday that theUS should explain why it is funding possible unrest in Georgia.
In a statement later in the day, the US embassy in Tbilisi said the accusations against CANVAS are "false and fundamentally mischaracterize the goals of our assistance to Georgia." US aid to Tbilisi has always been "transparent," the embassy insisted, adding that CANVAS was contracted by USAID more than two years ago to "deliver training to mothers advocating for better cancer treatments for children, and to people advocating for the rights of elderly citizens in their communities."
The US will "continue to support Georgian organizations who support people to secure the future they determine and deserve," the embassy added.
CANVAS stands for Center for Applied Nonviolent Strategies, and its mission is to "advocate for the use of nonviolent resistance in the promotion of human rights and democracy," according to the group's website. It was co-founded by Djinovic and Srdja Popovic, two prominent members of Otpor, a US-backed student group that played a key role in the October 2000 coup in Serbia.
A similar "color revolution" overthrew the Georgian government in 2003, with former Otpor activists coaching the Georgian copycat group Kmara. After the 2004 'Orange Revolution' in Ukraine, The Guardian described the process as an American-devised "template for winning other people's elections."
https://www.rt.com/russia/583924-georgia-color-revolution-usaid/
#18830712 at 2023-05-11 17:55:16 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #23112: Moves And Counter Moves Till..... Edition
11 May, 2023 15:46
EU wants Georgia to turn away Russian planes
Tbilisi has been advised to support Western aviation sanctions against Moscow, a senior official has said
The EU is urging Georgia not to allow Russian planes to enter its territory, Peter Stano, the bloc's lead spokesperson for foreign affairs, said on Thursday. His comments came a day after Russian President Vladimir Putin lifted the flight ban and visa regime with the Caucasian country.
Speaking during a press briefing, Stano explained that the EU had "taken note of the decision by the Russian authorities to lift the air travel ban on Georgia."
He pointed out, however, that "Russia's illegal aggression" against Ukraine had resulted in numerous Western countries slapping sanctions on the country's aviation sector. "We don't allow flights to Russia, from Russia, over Russia," the spokesman reminded everyone.
Against this backdrop, he continued, the "EU encourages Georgia, which isaspiring to become [a] EU candidate*country, to align with the existing EU sanctions ... against Russia in the area of aviation," as well as to "remain vigilant" when it comes to possible attempts to circumvent those restrictions. (*The EU dangles the "aspiring country" out to these corrupt countries for 20+ years, telling them you are getting closer, they DON'T want these countries because they don't need more corruption)
He also warned Georgia about what he described as "unsafe Russian planes," claiming Western sanctions were hindering their maintenance.
However, commenting on Russia's decision to introduce a visa free regime,he said that Georgian citizens should decide for themselveswhether they would like to take advantage of this opportunity.
Leonid Slutsky, who chairs the Committee on International Affairs in Russia's State Duma, responded to Stano's remarks by saying "blackmail and interference in the affairs of sovereign states have become a familiar policy tool used by the collective West."
Unlike many Western nations,Georgia never imposed sanctions on Moscowover the Ukraine conflict. On Wednesday, Speaker of the Georgian Parliament Shalva Papuashvili indicated that Tbilisi had no intention to change its stance on the matter in order to avoid an escalation in bilateral relations.
That same day, Irakli Kobakhidze, the leader of the ruling Georgian Dream party, opined that Russia's decision to lift the air travel ban, which ended up benefiting Georgian citizens, stemmed from Tbilisi's "pragmatic policy course."
The move, however, infuriated Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili, who called it a "provocation." She said that it would remain "unacceptable as long as Russia continues its aggression on Ukraine and occupies our territory." She was referring to Moscow's friendly ties with South Ossetia and Abkhazia, which broke free from Tbilisi and were recognized by it as independent after the 2008 conflict between Russia and Georgia.
https://www.rt.com/russia/576124-eu-georgia-russia-planes/
(Honestly how did EU elect so many women presidents, that's not normal, and they are all radical? HRC)
#18487905 at 2023-03-11 22:49:58 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #22671: Comfy-Cozy Saturday Bake Edition
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Nevertheless, the bill caused concern among representatives of NGOs, the media, and the opposition, who believed that the Georgian Dream and People's Power parties are trying to copy Russia in "fighting 'foreign agents'."Instead, they advocated that people fight for "freedom of speech in the country."
Russia's experience prompted the protesters in Tbilisi to see the supposed influence of Moscow behind the Georgian authorities' decision. Indeed, the opposition and the protesters contrasted their nation's "European integration path" with the alleged "pro-Russian course" of the ruling party. This position was shared both by local protesters and Russians who have emigrated to Georgia for political reasons.
"This was taken from the Russian law. It's a copy of it. We don't need that. This law threatens many people and will not let us join the EU," a Tbilisi local named Nino told RT.
Many young people adopted these sentiments. "My friends and I all went [to the protest]. This is our fight for the way to Europe," said a man named Guram when talking about the March 8 rally.
…in a US law
Incidentally, the bill was not initiated by the ruling party, but by the People's Power movement. This group was formed by former Georgian Dream deputies who left the party following the protests of March 2022. For bureaucratic reasons, the EU postponed Tbilisi's application to join the bloc. Protests broke out, and the demonstrators blamed the Georgian authorities.
A member of the People's Power movement stated that the purpose of the proposed "foreign agents" bill was to "inform," not restrict, the activities of NGOs and media. The party offered assurances that the law would ensure the "transparency of foreign influence,"adding that they had relied on US experience when developing the bill, while adapting it to the realities of Georgia.
On February 21, the Bureau of the Parliament of Georgia registered the so-called "Georgian" version of the bill, and on February 27 - the "US" version, and submitted both to the legal committee for consideration. It was specifically the first bill that was passed and then withdrawn. According to People's Power, this version, in contrast to the second "US" one, "proposed a minimum standard of transparency and only obliged foreign influence agents to submit an annual financial declaration." Moreover, the Georgian bill stated that only a legal entity could be declared a "foreign influence agent," and there was no criminal liability in case of violation, unlike in US law and in the second version of the bill.
On February 28, despite disagreements from the opposition, the leader of the Georgian Dream party, Irakli Kobakhidze, confirmed his wish to adopt one of the versions of the law.
"We ask [the Venice Commission to conduct] an accelerated procedure, after which the version of the bill that will receive the most positive assessment will be finalized,"Kobakhidze said.
Along with Tbilisi Mayor Kakha Kaladze and Parliament Speaker Shalva Papuashvili, Kobakhidze consistently refuted statements made by the opposition that the law was a copy of the Russian one. He insisted that deputies developed the first version independently, while the second version was copied from the US analogue, FARA.
On March 6, it became known that the Legal Issues Committee of the Parliament of Georgia backed both bills - the "Georgian" and "US" versions - in the first reading.
https://www.rt.com/russia/572803-georgia-against-foreign-agents/
#18471748 at 2023-03-09 04:44:10 (UTC+1)
Q Research #22650: Dig Comfier Edition
Irakli Kobakhidze, chairman of Georgia's ruling party, slammed the anti-government demonstrators from the LGBT Shame Movement and Droa as "extremist organisations" who are funded by foreign entities to promote "Bolshevik propaganda against the [Georgian] Orthodox Church."
#18470963 at 2023-03-09 02:22:23 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #22649: Comfy We Stand Edition
8 Mar, 2023 23:20
EU threatens Georgia over 'foreign agent' law
Senior MEP says Tbilisi's legislative move endangers its "European course"
Georgia risks "significant withdrawal of EU support" if it proceeds with the law on registering foreign agents, Romanian MEP Siegfried Muresan said on Wednesday. The vice-president of the European People's Party bloc in the European Parliament told Romania's Digi 24 outlet that requiring NGOs to disclose foreign funding was an attack on democracy. (Fuck the EU, they want Soros etc in every country to destabilize them, for more control.)
"We see intimidation of civil society," Muresan told the outlet. Requiring organizations dealing with press freedom, human rights and helping Ukrainian refugees to register as foreign agents if 20% or more of their funding comes from abroad is "intimidation of essential entities for democracy, it is not at all consistent with European standards," he added.
"What the Georgian authorities are doing endangers the country's European course," insisted Muresan, accusing Tbilisi of having "fallen behind Moldova and Ukraine" in implementing EU reforms.
On Tuesday, Georgian lawmakers voted in favor of a bill that would impose registration requirements on foreign-funded NGOs. The opposition denounced it as "Russian-like" and organized mass protests outside the parliament two days in a row. Some of the demonstrators carried EU, US and Ukrainian flags. Others wore gas masks and helmets, attempted to storm the legislature, and threw Molotov cocktails at police.
The ruling party in Tbilisi saysthe law is intended to protect the country's sovereignty from "extremist organizations" funded from abroad.
Georgian Dream party leader Irakli Kobakhidze accused the opposition of wanting torestore the 2003-2012 'Rose Revolution' regime, which he said looted the country and lost 20% of its territory.
Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili and the US State Department have sided with the rioters, with the US embassy in Tbilisi calling the proposed law a "dark day for democracy." EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell also described the proposal as contrary to EU values.
Muresan told Digi24 that Tbilisi "risks a significant withdrawal of EU support" unless it backs down, because Brussels cannot support "undemocratic tendencies."
"Obviously the EU expectation is that people can express themselves freely and any attempt to intimidate those who take to the streets will not be accepted," he said.
Muresan is a member of Romania's National Liberal Party (Partidul Na?ional Liberal, PNL), the junior partner in the current ruling coalition. The EPP bloc is the largest single faction in the European Parliament.
https://www.rt.com/russia/572661-eu-georgia-democracy-foreign-agents/
#18470857 at 2023-03-09 02:06:01 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #22649: Comfy We Stand Edition
8 Mar, 2023 19:11
Opposition besieges Georgian parliament
Protesters against "foreign agents" law clashed with riot police again
Thousands of demonstrators,some wearing gas masks and helmets, surrounded the parliament building in Tbilisi on Wednesday evening, protesting a law that would curb foreign-funded NGOs. Police used tear gas, water cannons and flash-bangs in an attempt to disperse them. (Antifa and Nazis Color Revolution)
In a repeat of Tuesday's clashes, protesters used Molotov cocktails and fireworks against the police, drawing a forceful response. The authorities are trying to unblock the parliament building and push the demonstrators away, according to local media.
Live-streams of the protest showed demonstrators attempting to breach the gates and enter the parliament building. Several windows on the building were broken. At one point, gunshots could be heard.
Protests began after the parliamentary majority voted in favor of a bill requiring any organization receiving more than 20% of its funding from abroad to register as a foreign agent. Opposition politicians denounced the proposal as copying a Russian law and arguing this was somehow endangering Georgian democracy and Euro-Atlantic integrations.
Police managed to disperse the riot outside the parliament on Tuesday evening, arresting more than 60 people for disorderly conduct. On Wednesday,the opposition issued an ultimatum demanding their release and withdrawal of the foreign agents law.
Giorgi Vashadze, whose party has three seats in the 150-member assembly, called on the protesters to "peacefully and non-violently"surround the parliament.
TheUS has come out in support of the demonstrators, with the embassy in Tbilisi denouncing the law's adoption as a "dark day for democracy" in Georgia. The State Department said Washington might impose sanctions against the government over the crackdown on the protest. (Color revolution like Ukraine, now the diplomats should pass out cookies)
President Salome Zurabishvili recorded a video address from New York on Tuesday evening, likewise denouncing the bill and vowing to veto it. France's former ambassador to Georgia, Zurabishvili became a Georgian citizen - and foreign minister - after the 2003 US-backed "Rose Revolution."
Irakli Kobakhidze, leader of the ruling 'Georgian Dream' party, denounced the opposition of seeking to reinstate the "revolution of spies" that gave Georgia "nine anti-European years of torture, extortion, censorship and loss of 20% of territory."
"Georgian society is mature enough today to not allow a new revolution by the same spies or a return to the past," Kobakhidze told reporters. He predicted that "eventually the passions will subside" and the new law will provide transparency as to who is funding the "extremist organizations" engaging in "Bolshevik propaganda."
"If we do not protect the state from the plans of spies, not only will we not become members of the European Union, but we will also lose our sovereignty," Kobakhidze said.
Some critics of the law have complained that the opposition was doing everyone a disservice by labeling it "Russian," as the proposal that eventually passed was less repressive than the alternative, patterned after the Foreign Agents Registration Act enacted by the US in 1938.
https://www.rt.com/russia/572655-georgia-protests-continue/
#6817808 at 2019-06-22 20:08:09 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8719: Sunday ICE Raids Edition
Flights of Georgian airlines to Russia to be suspended from July 8 - Transport Ministry
"The reason for the suspension of flights is the need to ensure a sufficient level of aviation security", the Russian Transport Ministry said
MOSCOW, June 22. /TASS/. Flights of Georgian airlines to Russia will be suspended from July 8, according to the Russian Transport Ministry.
"The reason for the suspension of flights is the need to ensure a sufficient level of aviation security, as well as overdue debts for air navigation activities before State ATM Corporation," the Ministry said.
The total amount of Georgia's debt for air navigation services is slightly below $793,000. At the same time, another 592,200 rubles ($9,391) of debt have not been repaid since 2008.
"The suspension of flights will continue until companies Georgian Airways and MyWay Airlines present programs of aviation safety to the Russian side, their audit and approval by the Russian side, and until the Georgian side fully repays the air navigation service debt," the report said.
Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on Friday, imposing a temporary ban on passenger flights with Georgia from July 8, the Kremlin press office reported.
Russia's largest airline Aeroflot will fully halt flights to Georgia from July 8, Aeroflot announced earlier.
Tbilisi developments
On June 20, several thousand protesters gathered near the building of the national parliament in downtown Tbilisi, demanding the resignation of the interior minister and the parliament's speaker, and tried to storm it. In response, police used tear gas, rubber bullets and water cannons to disperse the demonstrators. According to Georgian media, dozens were detained, 240 people suffered injuries.
The protests were sparked by an uproar over a Russian State Duma delegation's participation in the 26th session of the Inter-parliamentary Assembly on Orthodoxy (IAO). On Thursday morning, IAO President Sergei Gavrilov opened the session in the Georgian parliament. Opposition lawmakers were outraged by the fact that Gavrilov addressed the event's participants from the parliament speaker's seat. In protest, they did not allow the IAO session to continue.
Later, a decision was taken to wrap up the session and for the Russian delegation to leave the country. Members of the ruling 'Georgian Dream - Democratic Georgia' party said that they did not know that Gavrilov had been scheduled to open the event, claiming that the protocol office had made a mistake.
Secretary General of the ruling 'Georgian Dream - Democratic Georgia' party and Tbilisi Mayor Kakha Kaladze announced on Friday that Parliament Speaker Irakli Kobakhidze had decided to resign.
https://tass.com/economy/1065119
#6806062 at 2019-06-21 12:55:00 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8705: Iran War Drums on Hold Edition
Georgian Parliament Speaker Resigns Amid Protests - Ruling Party
TBILISI (Sputnik) - The speaker of the Georgian parliament, Irakli Kobakhidze, has resigned amid protests in the country's capital, the secretary general of the country's ruling Georgian Dream party, Kakha Kaladze, said on Friday.
"This decision has been made to fulfill his responsibility toward the [Georgian] people," Kaladze said at a briefing.
Protests swept Tbilisi on Thursday, with the demonstrators opposing the participation of Russian delegates in the session. At first, Georgian opposition lawmakers left the session as IAO President and Russian lawmaker Sergey Gavrilov opened the meeting in the seat of head of the parliament. The session was interrupted, then the building was assaulted by radicals.
The opposition subsequently joined the demonstrators, calling for the resignation of the government and the parliament speaker. The protests were subsequently dispersed but demonstrators reportedly broke into the office of the ruling Georgian Dream party and ransacked it.
https://sputniknews.com/europe/201906211076008780-georgian-parliament-speaker-resigns/
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#128827 at 2022-03-02 17:53:30 (UTC+1)
QRB General #869: Space Force Slice N Dice "Potato" Edition
Ex-Soviet republic Georgia to 'immediately' apply for EU membership: ruling party
https://twitter.com/AFP/status/1499063032575574024
https://agenda.ge/en/news/2022/499
The Government of Georgia is applying for the European Union membership, the ruling Georgian Dream (GD) party chairman Irakli Kobakhidze said on Wednesday.
At the special briefing Irakli Kobakhidze stated that the Government of Georgia, led by Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili, was already preparing an application for EU candidate status.
Georgian Dream (GD) party chairman stressed that the application for EU membership backed by new reforms in 2024 would have had an advantage over applying hastily.
However, given a general political context and anew reality, following the consultations with the members of the party's political council and, first of all, with the Prime Minister, the Georgian Dream's political team made a political decision to apply for EU membership immediately, Irakli Kobakhidze said, adding that the application for EU candidate status will be officially submitted to the EU structures on behalf of the Georgian government tomorrow.
The ruling Georgian Dream party chairman called on the EU structures to consider the application on an urgent basis and to make a decision on granting Georgia the status of EU candidate.
The Committee on European Integration of the Georgian Parliament on Tuesday prepared a draft resolution on the country's integration into the European Union, calling on EU member states and institutions to take all necessary steps to accelerate Georgia's accession to the Union.
Heidi Hautala, a Member of the European Parliament from Finland said "Ukraine and Georgia deserve European prospects" in an interview released by Georgia's Imedi channel on Wednesday.