The third President of Georgia, Mikheil Saakashvili, who is imprisoned on fabricated charges, compared the actions of the pro-Russian Georgian government to those of the former Ukrainian President who fled to Russia in 2014. The Ivanishvili regime has also erected a Christmas tree at the site of protests and adopted laws banning the wearing of masks during rallies. Bidzina, step down! Your Russian handlers are already waiting for you in Moscow!

Saakashvili responded to the Georgian government's initiative to ban wearing masks at protests and the installation of a Christmas tree frame on Rustaveli Avenue.

“Yanukovych also set up a Christmas tree and passed repressive laws, including banning the wearing of masks during protests. Russia didn't even help Assad, so who are you [‘Georgian Dream’] counting on?” Saakashvili wrote on social media.

Following the Tbilisi city government's attempt to install a Christmas tree near the Parliament building to hinder protestors from gathering in the square, the structure has become a new symbol of protests—much like Yanukovych's “tree” during Ukraine's Euromaidan in 2013. As a confirmation of this parallel, protestors decorated the tree with a Ukrainian flag. Alongside the Ukrainian flag, protestors displayed their Georgian flag, as well as the flags of the European Union and the United States.

To recall, protests began in Ukraine in November 2013 due to the government’s refusal to pursue European integration. Euromaidan culminated in the flight of President Viktor Yanukovych and his supporters to Russia, followed by new elections in the country.

Source: ekhokavkaza.com