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'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.
@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.
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.
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.
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.
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!!!
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.
@@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.
"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
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...
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.
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.
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.
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
*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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
The EU begins to be seen poorly in the East because it has stepped over its founding goals and principles. The EU must stop entirely the socially liberal agenda. Individual countries can do whatever, but the EU should stop forcing memeber states to adopt insane policies. Secondly, it should stop forcing member states to destroy their economies for Ukraine. We will help Ukraine moderately, we will allow them to sell whatever they wish as long as the products follow EU regulations, etc. Overall, the EU has abandoned it founding Christian principles and, in their place, has adopted a vague liberal agenda that makes its founders spin in the graves so hard that they could power an entire town.
Вмешательство других стран в выборы это не есть демократия.Когда указывают что выиграл неправильный кандидат и надо сделать перевыборы это фактически рабское право.
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'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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"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.
This will be huge no matter what outcome happens
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.
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.
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.
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
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 💀
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!!!
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.
It's giving euromaidan 2
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 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.
great video, but the pronunciation of georgian names are killing me 😂😂
My wife is from there. My cousin works there. I hope the protests keep going.
"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
could you please do a video about the protests in serbia that have been happening almost daily since nov 1?
shoutouts to my goat gattsu, a georgian, for being russia's #1 opp 💪
A Fallout: New Vegas reference in a TLDR video? Made my day
feels like it's 10 (actually about 7) minutes of no new information.
So according to the bias feature u actually lean right-wing huh?
might be time to deny, defend, depose
We got second Euromaidan before GTA6.
The Russian bots in the comments section is crazy lol
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Soros bots are unhappy with that lol
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...
"footballer turned populist" what???
They end when Bidzina Ivanishvili is in prison
Kinda, of surprising to see Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Ukraine (all ex-Soviet states) sanction Georgia (also an ex-Soviet state).
Russia likes the tasty 20% of other countries
Groceries are too expensive in Russia, so I guess they're eating other countries now
If you would like to see an expert on Georgia refer to Gattsu
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.
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.
Free the people of Georgia from Russian occupation!
When eu supports a coup it's ok?
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.
Revolution
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
*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.
Please make a video about situation in Serbia
Are these in Florida, too?
haha 🤣
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.
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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 💀
6:12 Lol, the Baltics & Ukraine putting sanctions on someone, living in a fantasy world where they have any power whatsoever
how can a country be so subverted by another, how does Russia have so much control over Georgian elections
“Rigged” why because you don’t like the results 😂
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.
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.
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
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
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?
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.
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
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 ?
TL;TR: IDK
The EU begins to be seen poorly in the East because it has stepped over its founding goals and principles. The EU must stop entirely the socially liberal agenda. Individual countries can do whatever, but the EU should stop forcing memeber states to adopt insane policies. Secondly, it should stop forcing member states to destroy their economies for Ukraine. We will help Ukraine moderately, we will allow them to sell whatever they wish as long as the products follow EU regulations, etc. Overall, the EU has abandoned it founding Christian principles and, in their place, has adopted a vague liberal agenda that makes its founders spin in the graves so hard that they could power an entire town.
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!
So that’s where Azerbaijan is. Anyway back to the main story.
You promote the anti Russian hysteria. Stop inciting hatred.
In 1937 you'd be saying that about the Germans.
you're a bot 01010100010101001010110
And you stand with ruzzia rigging elections of other countries
@NewOrleansSeptember You don't qualify as an actual person though.
@@najex1 Why would I say that in 1937? What is your statement based on?
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If you would like to see an expert on Georgia refer to Gattsu
Gattsu?