On August 14, the extraordinary congress of the Georgian Charter of Journalistic Ethics ruled that the organization did not comply with the law on foreign agents and refused to register it in the register of “organizations pursuing the interests of a foreign power.” This decision is in line with the decision of the Charter Council of August 8.
In an interview with the Russian daily Izvestia, Nikolai Patrushev, Chairman of the Maritime Collegium of the Russian Federation and an adviser to President Putin, accused the United States of “organizing” the 2008 Russo-Georgian war, calling it “Saakashvili’s military adventure.” During the 2008 Russo-Georgian war, Patrushev was Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation.
On August 16, Gela Mtivlishvili, editor-in-chief of “Mtis Ambebi”, and Nino Zuriuashvili, investigative journalist at Studio Monitori, Complaint filed before the Constitutional Court against the Foreign Agents Act. This is the fourth constitutional challenge to the law following the lawsuits by the president, Opposition partiesAnd 121 civil society organisations.
Technology giant Meta has REMOVED Accounts and pages of Russian origin on its platforms that criticized protesters against the foreign agents law and supported Georgia’s ruling Georgian Dream party. In its recently published threat report, Meta said it had removed 76 Facebook accounts, 30 pages and 11 Instagram accounts that originated in Russia and targeted three South Caucasus countries – Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan. Meta said a violation of its policy “against coordinated inauthentic behavior” was the reason for its action.
On August 15, Tamar Chergoleishvili and Giga Bokeria started a new party called The FederalistsThis follows the withdrawal of the two politicians and their supporters from the European Georgia The party will close on August 1 due to internal disagreements triggered by the primaries. According to Chergoleishvili, the party’s founding congress is expected in mid-September.
On 17 August, the opposition leader United National Movement (UNM)Tina Bokuchava announced that the hull European Georgia joined the UNM-led coalition “Unity – to save Georgia” Agmashenebeli StrategyThe platform was started on July 8th.
On August 17, the Republican Party and the organization “Activists for Future” joined the “Coalition for Change,” which was originally started from three other opposition parties, Ahali, Girchi – More FreedomAnd Draa.
Correction: In the August 15 Daily Beat we said that according to the GORBI poll, Nika Gvaramia’s Ahali party does not reach the 5% threshold. However, the poll, commissioned by the pro-government Imedi TV, suggests that 5.5% would vote for the Coalition for Change, which includes Girchi-More Freedom, Droa and Ahali. The corrected version of this Daily Beat edition can be found Here. We apologize.
