Disclaimer: Out of respect for the Georgian (Kartvelian) people, we will use the name of their state as requested by the Kartvelians themselves - Sakartvelo. People who don't live in their own selfish and unempathetic bubble have been watching the scene of protests in Sakartvelo and the police brutally dispersing them for days now, and these protests were particularly widespread in 2023, following the adoption of a law modelled on Russia's ‘foreign agents’ law, and in 2024, following the Georgian Dream party's rigging of the parliamentary elections. So what is going on there? Let's try to figure it out. The first and most important thing to understand. Sakartvelo is a parliamentary republic . It became such in 2018. That is, everything here is decided exclusively by the parliamentary majority. That is why parliamentary elections play a much more important role here than, for example, in Russia or Ukraine (although in Ukraine, the parliament is also the highest legisla...