The ambassador of Georgia to France, who has just resigned due to a controversial bill in his country on “foreign influence”, calls for “the withdrawal” of the text and hopes that his decision “will make those think.” who support its adoption, in an interview Friday with the newspaper The world.
This text, an initiative of the ruling party, provoked the anger of part of the population who consider it contrary to the European aspirations of this Caucasian country. Also criticized by Westerners, it is inspired by a law used for years by the Kremlin to repress dissident voices in Russia. “Today, our European friends criticize us and Moscow compliments us. This is unbearable to me. My country has suffered so much from Russia,” says the diplomat, who warns: “Europe must not abandon Georgia because it could become another Ukraine.”
It is not only Sergei Rudy, Volodymyr Zelensky’s security chief, who was fired on Thursday, who was sent back to Ukraine in recent hours. The Ukrainian Parliament notably dismissed Oleksandr Kubrakov from his position as Minister of Infrastructure and Mykola Solsky from his position as Minister of Agriculture. The latter is accused of corruption.
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