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Hundreds of Russians living in Georgia voted in elections in Yerevan
Several hundred Russians from among those who moved from Russia to Georgia for permanent residence after the start of a large -scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, in the last days they specially left Tbilisi, as well as Batumi to Yerevan to vote in the elections of the President of Russia in two polling stations opened in Armenia.
This was announced by the founder of the independent information and analytical resource National.ge Gocha Mirtskhulava. At the same time, he noted that the Russians, who left Russia in protest against President Vladimir Putin’s policy, "planned to vote in Armenia against all four presidential candidates or spoil the ballots."
According to the analyst of the same resource of David Avalishvili, the Russians left Georgia to Armenia in an organized manner-by bus or by taxi, having previously agreed on social networks about the solidarity of protest, and on the Georgian-Armenian state border, starting on March 15, the accumulation of cars was noticeable.
In Tbilisi, on March 17, on the Central Avenue Rustaveli, not far from the building of the Georgian parliament, the protest of Russians living in Georgia took place. It took place on the initiative of the Free Russia Foundation as part of the Global Promotion "Nonf. Against Putin."
The action in the Georgian capital was attended by about 300 people. They kept posters in Russian and Georgian, one of which read: "Enough Putin, war, lies and repression." The audience also chanted: "Russia will be free." After the rally was completed, the participants passed the march along the avenue past the parliament building and again gathered for a rally on Freedom Square. Some of the participants told local journalists that they did not plan to return to Russia "until the Putin regime ruled the country into a bloody war."
The fact that not a single polling station in the election of the President of Russia was opened in Georgia is associated with the lack of diplomatic relations between the two countries. They have been interrupted at the initiative of the ex-president of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili since August 2008 after the events of the Five Day War.