We will not obey the “Russian law”!
55 days ago, the government broke its word to
the Georgian people and re-initiated the “Russian law”. By that, it aimed at
cleavaging the civil sector, but encountered an unprecedented unity and
unflagging confrontation. The Georgian people are strong and will be in
defending our own European future and will never ever get along with living
under the boot of Russia.
The “Russian law” will not work in our
country! It will remain to be an unrecognized document to which none of us will
obey!
The government has consciously endangered
economy of our country, international reputation, civil order and peace. They
did this deliberately so that the citizens of this country would not be able to
help each other. But we keep strong and have been proving for almost 55 days
that people do not exhaust in loving their country.
We’ll continue our protest and confrontation
until this law is repealed!
They tried to scare us with special operations
forces, beatings and insults, detentions and illicit fines, but they couldn’t
predict that all their measures aimed at stopping us in the legitimate cause of
helping people would be in vain. We’ll go on with our deed – we’ll help
people and each other and won’t obey the “Russian law”!
We won’t leave a single person without help,
we’ll protect all those detained and those brought to administrative
responsibility. Our lawyers will defend their rights both within the country
and in international courts. We’ll accumulate funds to pay fines of each other
that were imposed on us because of our devotion to our country and the fight
for freedom.
The entire civilized world sees our struggle
and supports us in this. The adoption of the “Russian law” will put at risk
observation of elections, but in spite of this, we, Georgian CSOs, promise you
to protect the elections and every single vote of our citizens. We will be with
you at every polling station and will observe to protect free and fair
elections!
This is Georgia! We won’t become Russified!
The Georgian people will once again and not only once astonish the whole world
with their struggle for freedom.
We declare
disobedience – no to the “Russian law”! Yes – to Europe!
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Russia continues to pursue deliberate efforts aimed at the annexation of Georgia’s occupied territories with soft power instruments.
The Anti-Corruption Bureau was established in 2022 in response to recommendations issued by the European Commission, which called for strengthening the independence and functional capacity of anti-corruption institutions.
