more recently, ivanishvili's georgian dream has introduced an anti—lgbtq law, also modelled on russiand decide whether georgia will move closer to russia or to the west. from her balcony in tbilisi, the bbc�*s rayhan demytrie told me more. we are in the — we'rejust a few weeks away from what's being described as the most important elections in georgia since its independence from the soviet union in the early 1990s. there is this issue, isn't there, of the lgbt bill that's going through? i mean, how has that affected things? the government argues that they want to protect minors from this massive lgbt propaganda that is coming from the west and therefore, the law includes a number of amendments that would affect the broadcasting law — for example, or any expression of lgbtq rights in cultural sphere, in theatres, in cinema. so, all of this has now been outlawed. human rights organisations and those lgbtq rights activists, they're saying that this law will further marginalise the lgbt community, which already has way kind of restricted rights in this country, and it will bring it to kind

the 12th year, are now directly saying, i will remind you that the first term of power of binzin ivanishviligeorgian dream, was a coalition government in them. there were several parliamentary parties that opposed saakashvili, who formed a coalition government, and people who were then close to binzin ivanishvili, now they, in the vast majority from other parties, they are on the maidan, they are on rostaveli avenue, they are in other political projects of the opposition against this government, so in the 12th and 13th years, they are calling out their mistake now, because they said that if we were able to change mikheil saakashvili in georgia, then we will change them all the more... but how see, practice shows, it doesn't work, let's return, let's return to the present, the present, let's say this, with the numbers i can operate with, operate now, if 70% of georgian voters according to the existing lists come to the polling stations, even according to the estimates of the pro-government polls, of course they don't give them to the public, y of the georgian dream there is a target of 35%, i

2019-2022, why are you throwing stones at georgians, and well... why do you think that bidzina ivanishvilijust some kind of plotarch, he is a rather primitive limited person, well, you see it, who previously believed that in order to maintain power and financial flow, he needed to express democratic ideas, to fight against the position of the values ​​of europe and euro-atlantic integration, do you remember, ministers, deputies from the georgian dream always came, absolutely euro-integrators, huh, and then you... that for them it means nothing, it surprised me that the same people who argued that no, we, you understand, you are fighting with the party of mikheil saakashvili, because mikheil saakashvili is an authoritarian ruler, and this is the only thing that divides us, because we actually want a real europe, a real participation in nato, well, this is such a system of evidence, it can work, and then it turns out that the law is about agents, and this law is about propaganda. well, lgbt, it ’s all written off from russia, yes, it all shows that they want to create a society that will be

able to understand that if they let go of power. they will lose in the competition, well, so will ivanishvili has putin's logic, and i don't see anything strange in this, your opinion, what will be the result of the elections in georgia, the victory of the georgian dream, i think that the victory of the georgian dream is absolutely realistic, but the opposition can also win, the question is how to count, how to defend the result, and this is a very important point, because in fact there may simply be a sharp destabilization of the situation after the parliamentary elections, it is absolutely clear, this can also happen , a revolutionary process, a revolutionary process can be, and there can be a process of repression against society, let's see who is stronger, you understand, always in such a story it is important to understand the effectiveness of the power apparatus, that's what i am, to what extent the power apparatus is capable of resisting society, as we have seen in belarus, in russia, in ukraine, the power apparatus was not very effective, that is why we live in the country in which we

the power behind georgian dream is reclusive billionaire bidzina ivanishvili.realigning georgia with russia. outside the polling station, he announced he would not take any questions... ..and he meant it. in this election, there was evidence of ballot box stuffing. and there was violence. at polling station 7a, this is what happened to an opposition official investigating reports of vote rigging. later, we visited him in hospital, and he agreed to tell us what happened. he says that after he had called the police to report election fraud, a local town councillor had stormed up to him. translation: | told him l i was waiting for the police. he started hitting me. then another ten men joined him. i heard him saying that my party is a terrorist group of europe and america. tonight, the pro—eu opposition is trailing in the count. it's claiming the election was stolen. celebrations for the ruling party. it may treat this as a mandate to distance the country further from the west. steve rosenberg, bbc news, tbilisi. in the uk, footage has emerged on social media appe

gaining interest, the second opposition party, this is a person who headed the government of binzin ivanishvilind headed the ministry of internal affairs, answering your thesis, that the opposition knows very well, in this regard, the right absolutely, how it will act if he is admitted to parliament, whether he will become a unifying figure for the street, or whether his party will be watered in the way that i said, very much. interesting processes, so now the people are hoping for a turnout, the opposition has wasted a lot of time, that is, the georgian cells , for example, i was somehow blown away, if i had a georgian passport, i would not know who i would vote for, i knew who i wouldn't vote for, but you understand, such sentiments are present, society is not annoying, i'm here i am reading, in georgia they are filling, let's say, the register of foreign agents and now... in the list of these foreign agents there is an organization that we are all interested in, a youth organization of ukrainians, it is located in and it is now foreign agents, and and and look, look , look, let's make a smal

i completely agree, ivanishvili says that he talks about forgiveness, about reconciliation, and the first this moment is why before this consciousness comes, you need to go through blood, through tears, through destruction, that's what kind of virus this is the one that the post-soviet space has found itself in, until you experience all this chaos that is tearing your state apart, the moment will not come to you when you think about forgiveness, for example, the same virus almost crawled into the heads of belarusians in 2020, you need to be aware of this, and partly infantilism, partly paternalism on the part of states, well, take the yanukovych regime, no matter what anyone says about it, but it was probably the last ukrainian government that cared about its citizens, this is in fact so, with corruption, with all the other nuances, but cared, everyone else says just go, die for other people's interests, so here... i just wish the georgian people, society, the political elite, specifically the nationally oriented one, strength in their own, in their subjectivity, andrey vach. well , armen