Demonstrators holding aloft EU and Georgian flags are working to drive out the ruling Georgian Dream party, which Washington and Brussels views as insufficiently pliant.
Political turmoil has seized the south Caucasus country, as pro-Western protesters heed the president's call to reject the outcome of parliamentary elections.
The political crisis engulfing the country of Georgia continues, with the US and its European allies condemning the ruling party of the tiny South Caucasus nation as pro-Russian.
Supported by the US and its EU allies, demonstrators in Georgia’s capital city, Tbilisi, are demanding the reversal of a “foreign agents law” and accusing the ruling party of being Putin's “slave.”
Demonstrators, whose numbers have been generally described as being “in the thousands,” took to the streets outside the parliament on multiple days this week. They waved EU, Ukrainian and Georgian flags, held aloft signs that read “No to Russia. Yes to Europe” and yelled “Slaves!”, “Russians!”, “Traitors!”.
Georgia, a tiny nation with a population of just 3.7 million located in the south Caucasus, has long been the object of imperialist meddling, with the US and the EU today seeing it as critical to destabilizing Russia.
The withdrawal of the bill is an indication of the intense pressure exerted by NATO and the pro-Western opposition on the Georgian government.
The entire shopfloor at the Urals Compressor Factory (UKZ) in Ekaterinburg, Russia walked off the job on Tuesday.
The Western-backed anti-Russian protests in Tiflis are bound up with the escalating US war drive against Iran, which threatens to draw in the entire Caucasus region.
There is ample evidence that the unholy alliance of US intelligence agencies with anti-Russian jihadist elements in the North Caucasus has produced at least one fatal terror attack within the borders of the United States.
The Georgian militant’s career exemplifies the close ties between US imperialism and its supposed enemies in the Islamic State.
The NATO military alliance is provocatively seeking to install its forces on Russia’s borders.
Russia’s north Caucasus is wracked by ongoing violence centered in the federal republic of Dagestan.
Conflicts within the ruling class have intensified after parliamentary elections held last October.
Incumbent Georgian President Saakashvili conceded defeat in the parliamentary elections held Monday.
Ongoing anti-government protests in the country of Georgia have resulted in confrontations with police and the arrest of oppositionists.
Leaked State Department documents show the US embassy in Tbilisi issued one-sided reports to bolster Georgian claims in the August 2008 war with Russia.
A pro-regime television news broadcast in the former Soviet republic of Georgia, depicting Russian forces invading the country, was an effort to portray the Georgian opposition as traitorous and encourage anti-Russian sentiment.
A New York Times editorial attempts to portray the recent report by EU investigators, which found the Georgian government legally responsible for initiating the conflict, as a vindication of the newspaper’s own biased coverage in August 2008.
Following a 10-month investigation, a European Union report has found Georgia the aggressor in its 2008 war with Russia, directly refuting claims made not only by the Georgia government, but also by its backers in Washington and the US media.
