'I am Georgian, therefore I am European,' - Protesters furious after law passed
Sky's Dominic Waghorn speaks to protesters outside Georgia's parliament where they have approved the divisive "foreign agents" bill.
Critics see the legislation as a threat to democratic freedoms and there are concerns it's modelled on laws used by President Vladimir Putin in neighbouring Russia.
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Georgia 🇬🇪 for Europe 🇬🇪 🇪🇺
@user-yz4lt7yh5q
12 күн бұрын
Georgia is asia
Plot twist, this was reported in the State of Georgia and this people's are claimed to be an illegal immigrants from Mexico.
@Sunmoon46805
12 күн бұрын
The stock market and interest have ruined the economy. The best way to earn is to save money. Production should be supported in every way.
are any of the protestors over 25..? I wonder what all the people who are not protesting think
@ro--M
14 күн бұрын
No, over 24,5 year-olds not allowed.
@briancarno8837
14 күн бұрын
@@ro--M thousands of people demonstrate about the Gaza war every week, but that has nothing to do with denocracy apparently
@TakoGoksadze
13 күн бұрын
Yes most of my family members joining protests are over 25, and I think most of the people are actually over 25.
LOL Nothing says "European" quite like fist-fights in parliament. LOL Oh wait. European parliaments don't feature brawls, do they?
Who would be against transparency? These laws should be applied to all NGOs everywhere and government organizations
@Numaaaaaa1
14 күн бұрын
Because it's not about transparency
@festekj
14 күн бұрын
@@Numaaaaaa1 the law doesn’t block the EU or America from funding NGOs. If EU and American organizations chose not to fund NGOs because of the disclosure laws, its because they are violating international law of not interfering into foreign countries. For example, if a Russian organization wanted to fund a Georgian NGO, they would be forced to disclose it!!!
@TF-mc6yj
14 күн бұрын
Exactly, the law is to prevent foreign inverference. The great irony is it's European governments and companies that want to intefere in Georgia using companies as their proxy..
@tsantsara7
5 күн бұрын
@@festekj Except a Russian organization wouldn't disclose it because they have no qualms about sending black money into the country to fund it 'locally' - and the government introduced a law in parallel on offshore funding precisely to enable them to do that.
🙏🙏🙏Georgia🙏🙏🙏
Long live Georgia 🇺🇸
@Alex-xl7yf
14 күн бұрын
🏦🏳️🌈🏴☠️🌏🏴☠️🤺🌏🙏🏽🇷🇺
@michaelbarry2199
14 күн бұрын
Long live Georgia, down with NATO and the EU invaders.
@bryansmulez4672
14 күн бұрын
@@michaelbarry2199 I mean Georgia state of 🇺🇸
@bryansmulez4672
14 күн бұрын
@@michaelbarry2199 I don't think Americans cares about 🇬🇪 even 🇪🇺
@michaelbarry2199
14 күн бұрын
@@bryansmulez4672 lol haha!
I'm Georgian and i want say No matter this law is Australian Italian we know this law is dangerous and we don't want russia law we want European Future!! ❤
@chrimbus71
14 күн бұрын
European Führer??
@alrent2992
13 күн бұрын
Go move to Europe 😂
@user-ef4nd9cz6i
12 күн бұрын
Да какой ты грузин ты даже не знаешь кто такие грузины😂😂😂😂😂
@michaelbarry2199
12 күн бұрын
The EU is much more dangerous than a law which exposes foreign agencies conspiring to stage a coup in your country!
@JosephCummington
7 күн бұрын
Same talking points as in Ukraine. Oh boy this gonna be good, I will visit Tbilisi when it is renamed to Putingrad or something
We must keep supporting our Georgian Heroes! 🤍♥️
@Withnail1969
14 күн бұрын
why?
@PeterAlekseyevichRomanov7
14 күн бұрын
@@Withnail1969 because freedom is a human right! 🤍♥️
@Withnail1969
13 күн бұрын
@@PeterAlekseyevichRomanov7 Human rights do not exist.
@Samaa-os7hx
13 күн бұрын
@@PeterAlekseyevichRomanov7 So, why join the EU? Georgia already has economic ties with the EU, why the need to go on to give up all sovereignty to Brussels? Georgia would do extremely well to join BRICS, why grovel to a debt ridden genocidal war obsessed EU which will lose Georgia it's sovereignty?
@gdhghgd
13 күн бұрын
These people are not even Europeans, so what do they want from the EU? They are lucky that Russia wants to protect them!
Europe is dying very quickly, poverty, crime and wars have destroyed it, hopefully the east pays attention and saves itself
@Samaa-os7hx
13 күн бұрын
The young people have been brainwashed by Soros and NED.
He's leaving (leaving) On that midnight train from Georgia (leaving on a midnight train) Hmm, yeah🎶
Georgia in Europe? Iran is bloody closer.
@michaelbarry2199
12 күн бұрын
The EU is not Europe.
@Redpilled66
12 күн бұрын
@@michaelbarry2199 And Georgia isn't even in continental Europe.
@TakoGoksadze
11 күн бұрын
@@Redpilled66 the distance between Iran and Georgia is similar to the distance between Georgia and Bulgaria. Iran being close only meant more wars with Iran , we don't have experience of cooperating with Iran (unlike Russia) and we do have a long history of cooperation with Europe, starting from ancient Greece. So keep your simplistic mentality to yourself.
@barreloffun10
9 күн бұрын
Yes, culturally and anthropologically, Georgia is European. @@TakoGoksadze
@George-jz9fk
9 күн бұрын
@@TakoGoksadzebut Georgia is much closer to Iran than to Bulgaria
Fight for your freedom Georgia 🇬🇪 💪
@Samaa-os7hx
13 күн бұрын
By joining EU? 😂
I am Somali, therefore I am European
@alrent2992
13 күн бұрын
I'm Mexican. Therefore, I am European 😂
Surely the protesters have opportunity to vote in a new government if they don't like the situation? In the meantime they do not have the right to force government policy.
@atrailmckinley4786
14 күн бұрын
I mean they have a right to protest about a law they don't like.
@Robert-xy4xi
14 күн бұрын
A law WEF don't like!
@Samaa-os7hx
14 күн бұрын
@@Robert-xy4xi💯
@michaelbarry2199
14 күн бұрын
@@atrailmckinley4786 yes but not to try to overthrow the democratically elected government, like they did in Ukraine.
@atrailmckinley4786
14 күн бұрын
@michaelbarry2199 They aren't trying to overthrow the government. They are protesting against a law that they feel leans towards Russia and is anti-demorcatic. I suspect that since the election is coming up , the majority of the party will be voted out of office.
Crazy
Kako su zaludjeni pricom o Evropskoj Uniji, ne mogu da verujem. Vecina Evrope posmatra Gruzine, ako cemo vec iskreno, kao ljude koji su ispod njih u evakom smislu. Cak vecina i ne misli da su oni Evropa. A ta Evropa bi ih odma ugurala u rat da moze. Da oni ginu umesto njih. E, moji Gruzini kako ste naivni...
*They have elections coming up in 5 months - so how come the ruling party is behaving so against the public interest rather than appeasing them in this period??* 🤔
@Numaaaaaa1
14 күн бұрын
Because they whana steal elections and what better way then abolishing observer's
@ProBroOfficial
14 күн бұрын
Because the votes are going to be rigged so it doesn’t matter
@Samaa-os7hx
14 күн бұрын
The coming election is the reason they are bringing in the law, because of Soros NGOs. Such a small country but the West is itching to seize it as they want to use Georgia as launchpad against Russia.
@TakoGoksadze
13 күн бұрын
They have been falsifying it anyway ever since they got elected.
@ladibyrd
13 күн бұрын
yeah it's like they are trying to get voted out this time huh
We want in eu
@Samaa-os7hx
14 күн бұрын
Wake the ef up!
@Lessgo00
13 күн бұрын
@@Samaa-os7hxAnd be under dictatorship of russia?
@JanNowak972
13 күн бұрын
Georgian? What kind of European are they?
@barreloffun10
9 күн бұрын
Cultural, anthropological Europeans. The geography is not so important. @@JanNowak972
The guy have no reason for protesting clearly Who doesn't like transparency West dnt like transparency
@ro--M
14 күн бұрын
Hora Putain! ❤🇸🇪🇫🇷 Hora Liberos! Hora transparents!
@TakoGoksadze
13 күн бұрын
Someone from Africa must know it better than us :D
Foreign Agents Registration Act, FARA) - закон США, принятый в 1938 году, требующий, чтобы иностранные агенты в США, представляющие интересы иностранных держав в «политическом или квазиполитическом качестве», раскрывали свои отношения с иностранным правительством и информацию о соответствующей деятельности и финансах. Америка приняла этот закон почти 100 лет назад так почему Грузии нельзя сделать тоже самое?!! Держись Грузия!!!!
'Nothing to do with us!' *throws a sheet over the hundreds of Stalin statues. *Discreetly removes Stalins Georgian hometown from the map
@TakoGoksadze
13 күн бұрын
where are hundreds of Stalin statues, it's your hero, not ours.
@tsantsara7
5 күн бұрын
There's a dozen or so angry grandmothers in Gori who support Stalin and that's about it in Georgia.
I am european because i am poor , thus Bruxelles is gone pay my life style
Don’t let Putin into your institions !!! ✊✊✊🇬🇪
Как быстро вы перешли на английский. Вы там никому не нужны ,глупые.
@Castiel667
12 күн бұрын
We’ll stand with Freaking Martian lizards if it helps us in getting away from Russia!
Georgia is in Europe? Georgians have never seen a world map.
The stance of these people is very honorable! Especially first guy is completely European
@irfanmamedov6836
14 күн бұрын
❤
@Samaa-os7hx
14 күн бұрын
Georgia is in ASIA up to the northern Caucasis. It is Asia, nothing like Europe.
@alrent2992
13 күн бұрын
Basically, it's a foreigner! Georgia 🇬🇪 is not in Europe. 😂
Georgia is barely Europe
@user-yz4lt7yh5q
12 күн бұрын
Nah,Georgia is asia
„Испокон веков птиц ловят на одни и те же приманки, а люди попадаются в одни и те же ловушки.“ - Массимо де Адзельо
we want european money yaaay
@voice.of.reason
13 күн бұрын
They already have had a lot of EU money - EU money is building roads and has built some rather nice airports in Georgia. Good job the UK left the EU so we don't keep getting the bill for Georgia and other poor countries, 12 billion a year saving and counting
@Samaa-os7hx
12 күн бұрын
@@voice.of.reason drop in the ocean compared to what's given to Isahell
This poor fella is a bit confused. Georgia is a state in the united states of America. Bless him
@venusab687
14 күн бұрын
Georgia is a country in Europe.
@GrandpaVince
14 күн бұрын
@@venusab687 yes and so is texas then
@MariamMestvirishvili-rc5tp
14 күн бұрын
@@GrandpaVincegeorgia is country in Europe who is against his government🫶🏻❤️Watch your mouth🙃🙃
@MCcraft02
14 күн бұрын
@GrandpaVince No texas is a state of America.
@captainchaoscow
14 күн бұрын
And greedy Russians want to influence the American state of Georgia and have back Alaska. But are to afraid to do it with the military.
Georgia is Asia, thankfully nothing like Europe.
I thought u have brain 🧠 but i failed
Who give putin the Right to own other countrys .
@michaelbarry2199
14 күн бұрын
Who give Soros the right?
@alexbort3082
14 күн бұрын
What other countries?
@Davejazz
14 күн бұрын
@@alexbort3082 ukraine 🇺🇦 is a start .and all the old ussr states that don't want puppets in them ruling under Russia
@alexbort3082
14 күн бұрын
@@Davejazz Ukraine is not a country
I am Georgian and thats enough for me, I dont need any "therefore..." დამოუკიდებელ საქართველოს გაუმარჯოს!!!
@briancarno8837
14 күн бұрын
yeah accepting foreign money will make it independant...Did it work for Ukraine?
@LittleBishop001
14 күн бұрын
ფხიზლად იყავით ჩემო ძვირფასო ქართველო მეგობრებო. მთელი ევროპა ტირის. ევროკავშირი არც ისე ლამაზი ოცნებაა, როგორც გგონია, შესვლამდე უზარმაზარი ეკონომიკური მსხვერპლის გაღება მოგიწევს და როცა შიგნით იქნები, ყველაფერს წაგართმევენ! ევროპიდან გასვლა კიდევ უფრო რთულია, ვიდრე მასში შესვლა, ამიტომ მრავალი ერისთვის ეს იყო გზა, რომელიც არ დაბრუნებულა. მთელი ევროპა ტირის, მხოლოდ დიდმა ბრიტანეთმა მოახერხა ამ თაღლითობისგან თავის დაღწევა. რუსეთის წინააღმდეგ ომის საწარმოებლად გიყენებენ, იგივე მოხდა უკრაინაში 10 წლის წინ და ახლა უკრაინა სრულიად განადგურებული ერია. იყავით ფხიზლად, ჩემო ძვირფასო ქართველო მეგობრებო, დარჩით დამოუკიდებელი და ნეიტრალური, არც რუსეთი და არც ევროპა.
@TakoGoksadze
13 күн бұрын
@@briancarno8837 does attacking Ukraine work for Russia, it seems like they can't win that war.
@Lessgo00
13 күн бұрын
@@briancarno8837It would work for Ukraine if Russia didn't attack it🤡
@briancarno8837
13 күн бұрын
@@Lessgo00 no it would work for the US..Ukraine was just a proxy to de stabalise Russia
❤🙏😇☀️🫶🌸
Georgian? What kind of European are they?
@Medivh73
13 күн бұрын
Eastern
Minority don't rule 🤣
Что тут делают иностранцы???😊
Georgia is not in Europe it's in the middle east/central asia, same with armenia
@voice.of.reason
13 күн бұрын
They would be better off joining another ASIA country
@IcerinAlaska49
12 күн бұрын
It is consodered eastern europe. But at an intersection of west asia. They aren't middle east.
@jeycalc6877
12 күн бұрын
@@IcerinAlaska49 Wrong it is in asia, it is not eastern europe
The people of Georgia must realise that the European dream is over! The train of Democracy has left the station. Nothing more can be done without fighting. Georgia don't want another fight with Putin's Russia. I don't like Putin's Russia either! But Georgia is too small to think of fighting at any cost! It's finished!
@jetster785
14 күн бұрын
Georgia is it's own country, it doesn't have to revolve around Russia like another Belarus puppet! The Georgian people have a right to choose their own future whether to be aligned with Europe, so be it!
@jakel8627
14 күн бұрын
@@jetster785💯
@patwalsh6400
14 күн бұрын
Total BS, sunshine.😊
@thecoin5394
13 күн бұрын
@@jetster785or like another US puppet, like Germany
@voice.of.reason
13 күн бұрын
Joining the EU would be a disaster for Georgia. This law is just normal, they have the same law in the USA. It protects Georgia against foreign influence, *including* from Russia. This president is just a puppet of the EU. Joining the EU will see proud Georgians lose their democracy and be ruled by a foreign unelected power in Brussels. When Georgians wake up to what the EU is, they will be burning those EU flags they like to wave around. These protesters many of them are planted there by the EU and it's opinion buying money all over the media - it always does this.
I am so proud of the new Georgian generation 🇬🇪🇪🇺
@Withnail1969
13 күн бұрын
They belong in prison.
@meme3395
13 күн бұрын
Gullible pawns
We want UK to be part of EU. We need referendum before election😂😂😂
@Withnail1969
14 күн бұрын
who is we?
@Samaa-os7hx
14 күн бұрын
We left the effing EU.
@TakoGoksadze
13 күн бұрын
if Rajeshkumar Mohanraman says so, than both British and Georgian people will take it into consideration,
@voice.of.reason
13 күн бұрын
1 billion a month saved by exiting the EU. Georgians are mad wanting to be part of that club
@TakoGoksadze
13 күн бұрын
@@voice.of.reason OK 😁
Follow the rubles
@voice.of.reason
13 күн бұрын
Follow the corrupt EU € money
Rusia,is,fiuter
Russia is europe too, stop the EU expansion threats
@dj_cakes
14 күн бұрын
its not EU "expansion" if countries apply to join. Russia is not a european country btw. Take a look at a map, most of Russia's enormous land mass lies in Asia. Also, European countries are democratic, whereas in Russia, political opponents end up dead or in Prison. This is part of the reason why Georgians dont want to be aligned with Russia and why Ukraine is fighting Russia.
@chrimbus71
14 күн бұрын
@@dj_cakes Russia is in Europe, and Asia. It has always been classified as part of Europe in books, organisations etc. It was in the euros football tournament, European athletics and all sporting tournaments. The few thousand EU protestors DO NOT represent the majority of Georgians
@dj_cakes
14 күн бұрын
@@chrimbus71 look its nice to have Russia athletes take part in competitions but this does not make Russia a European country. Europe and the EU is made up of open, democratic, free market countries, who coexist and trade with and support each other. Russia has chosen to NOT do any of those things, thus isolating itself from Europe and aligning more with countries like Iran, China and North Korea. Its sad that the people of Russia have no say in any of this. Anyway, thanks for talking.
@msa-tt4bg
14 күн бұрын
The EU doesn't have an army, so how can it be a threat to Russia?
@chrimbus71
14 күн бұрын
@@msa-tt4bg what is the protest about genius??? Foreign interference!! Meddling, corruption, trade threats , political interference, happens just as much with the EU, as it does with china, Russia or the US. Wake up
soros rioters made it to georgia. reminds me of america.
@user-ct7mw9yu6n
13 күн бұрын
2008 remember what Russia did to those people
@laser3148
12 күн бұрын
@@user-ct7mw9yu6n it is time to remind them i think
Like
the law has nothing to do with russia, it has to do with america!! georgia doesn't want to come in the same position as ukraine where foreigners infiltrate their country and make enemies of their neighbours; by the way russia is also europe; it is only through the anglo saxons that europe is divided; they organised two world wars for that and now another one!
@Howiex-is8gq
14 күн бұрын
Kgb bot detected...
@Samaa-os7hx
14 күн бұрын
Georgia is in Asia
@Samaa-os7hx
14 күн бұрын
@Howiex-is8gq Soros agitator
Georgia is Europe? He need to go to learn his Geography, again
@venusab687
14 күн бұрын
Georgia is part of Europe, check your information.
@jahndoow7666
14 күн бұрын
Back in the USSR, yeah.😂❤
@chrimbus71
14 күн бұрын
@@venusab687so is Russia!!!
@Samaa-os7hx
14 күн бұрын
@@venusab687Georgia is in ASIA up to the northern Caucasis.
@alrent2992
13 күн бұрын
@@venusab687go move to Europe 😂
No to Russia Law Yes to EU and freedom more than Russia is no life and suffering under Putin
@Samaa-os7hx
14 күн бұрын
😂 EU is freedom?
@JanNowak972
13 күн бұрын
Georgian? What kind of European are they?
@voice.of.reason
13 күн бұрын
Joining the EU would be a disaster for Georgia. This law is just normal, they have the same law in the USA. It protects Georgia against foreign influence, *including* from Russia. This president is just a puppet of the EU. Joining the EU will see proud Georgians lose their democracy and be ruled by a foreign unelected power in Brussels. When Georgians wake up to what the EU is, they will be burning those EU flags they like to wave around. These protesters many of them are planted there by the EU and it's opinion buying money all over the media - it always does this.
@Samaa-os7hx
12 күн бұрын
@@JanNowak972 The Asian kind
These people are not even Europeans, so what do they want from the EU? They are lucky that Russia wants to protect them!
Europe 😂
@Samaa-os7hx
14 күн бұрын
Even funnier is the fact Georgia is in Asia and nothing like Europe (thank god).
@TakoGoksadze
13 күн бұрын
@@Samaa-os7hx wow trolls met each other, heartwarming
@JeedM
13 күн бұрын
@@Samaa-os7hx I mean it's pretty arbitrary geographically. I'm more laughing at someone wanting to be part of the EU nowadays.
@JeedM
13 күн бұрын
@@TakoGoksadze I love how neolibs throw the word troll at everyone. My literal full name and picture are on display, trolls don't do that 🤷🏽
Georgians are Kurds not Europeans
@anibbotson
14 күн бұрын
I've lived in Georgia and travelled about a lot. Your statement surprised me - and it took less than two minutes of reasearch to confirm that your statement is untrue. Georgians might have a mixture of DNA but they are most certainly Europeans.
@Samaa-os7hx
14 күн бұрын
@@anibbotson😂They're Asian not European at all. Europe starts from the northern Caucasis near the Russian border.
So much for the enthusiasm of other countries to join the Russian Mir.
Long live Russia❤Georgia and Serbia!
@Lessgo00
13 күн бұрын
Long live Georgia, Russia, Bulgaria, Romania and other countries without putin
Slava Russia
Nonsense.........vive la russie
never seen a channel promoto something so much. rotten sky "news"
@Samaa-os7hx
14 күн бұрын
💯
@voice.of.reason
13 күн бұрын
Always the line is, Russian law, when it really is not and stops Russia influence also!