Speaker of the Georgian Parliament responds to the confrontation that occurred yesterday [September 8] near Kakha Kaladze’s election headquarters on Melikishvili Avenue.

“The attacks by United National Movement “titushkas” on Tbilisi’s election headquarters are clear examples of foreign interference in elections, aimed at creating a violent pre-election environment.

In this process, beyond the extremist groups incited by certain foreign diplomats, they have involved externally funded propaganda platforms, including the Brussels-funded Netgazeti, which not only provides propaganda for violence but actually organises violent attacks on Georgian Dream’s election headquarters itself.

We have seen biased, partisan, yellow, all kinds of media, but ‘violent media’ is a new phenomenon which, following the example of Rwanda’s “Thousand Hills Free Radio and Television”, is a product created by foreign donors”, - writes Shalva Papuashvili on his Facebook page.