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Main article: Population of Georgia
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Parliament
2024
Ruling Georgian Dream party wins election with 53.92% of vote
In the parliamentary elections in Georgia, the ruling Georgian Dream party won the majority. The opposition coalition in total received only 37.5% of the vote.
Battle for independence. Adoption of a bill on foreign agents in the West's desire to make Georgia a second front against Russia
On May 1, 2024, in Georgia, the parliament adopted by a majority vote in the second reading a bill on "foreign agents." Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze told the media that in the final reading the law will be adopted in two weeks, and in another week the parliament plans to vote to overcome the president's veto.
Against the background of the adoption of the law, protests broke out. A raging crowd is trying to break into the parliament building, where a "red level" of security has been introduced. Several thousand people erect barricades and block the passage of transport along embankments and streets.
Police use tear gas and water cannons against demonstrators, and the Ministry of Internal Affairs holds an emergency meeting on the situation in the national capital. Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili supports the "protesters," but asks not to provoke the security forces to retaliate.
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze said on May 23 that Western actions to incite protests over the "Law on Foreign Influence" were dictated by the desire to create a "second front" against Russia from Georgia.
The presence of pro-Western structures financed from outside essentially creates a separate branch of government that affects what is happening within a particular structure. And the responsibility for what they do is borne by the government.
The United States is imposing new visa restrictions on Georgia and is beginning to revise bilateral cooperation between the countries due to the bill on foreign agents.
2022: The proportion of women in parliament is less than 20%
Intelligence agencies
2024: Interception of 14 kg of explosives transported to Russia from Ukraine
On February 5, 2024, it became known that the Georgian special services intercepted a cargo with explosives heading from Ukraine to Russia with the aim of a terrorist attack.
Containers with 6 IEDs with a total weight of 14 kg, disguised as batteries, moved from Odessa through Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey and crossed the Turkish-Georgian border through the Sarpi checkpoint on January 19. The final destination was Voronezh.
Three bombs were seized on the border of Russia and Georgia, and three more were "left in Tbilisi at a specific address."
Citizens of Georgia, Ukraine, Armenia were involved in the transportation of explosives through Georgia to the Russian Federation (it is possible that part was used in the dark). Andrei Sharashidze, a deputy from the party of President of Ukraine Zelensky, was behind the transportation of explosives from Georgia to the Russian Federation.
A little later, the State Security Service clarified that the bombs could allegedly be used for a terrorist attack on the territory of Georgia itself. Which is extremely unlikely, and more like an attempt to protect yourself from pressure from the West.
Earlier, it was in the same way that the GUR of Ukraine undermined the Crimean bridge.
Armed Forces
2021: Defence spending - 1.67% of GDP
Economy
Main article: Economy of Georgia
Education
2019: Number of years of education by citizens over 25
Health care
2021: Maternity leave
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2020: Duration of guaranteed paid sick leave from 1 to 2.9 months
1967: Cancer Research
Crime
2021: Number of intentional murders
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Prisons
2019: The minimum age for children to be jailed is 14
2018: Less than 300 prisoners per 100,000 citizens
History
2024
Mikhail Kavelashvili elected president of the country
The President of Georgia in December 2024 was elected the candidate of the ruling party "Georgian Dream" Mikhail Kavelashvili.
The elections were held in a new form through an electoral college consisting of 300 delegates. It includes all 150 deputies of the Georgian parliament and 150 representatives of local authorities.
Georgia suspended EU accession talks until 2028 and refused EU grants
"We decided not to put the issue of opening negotiations with the European Union on the agenda until the end of 2028. Also, until the end of 2028, we refuse any EU budget grants, "Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze said on November 28, 2024.
He stated that Georgia intends to continue to fulfill its obligations to join the union only at the expense of its own budget.
According to Kobakhidze, by the end of 2028, Georgia will be economically properly ready to begin negotiations on joining the EU by 2030. He called the reason for the decision the constant blackmail by EU representatives of the topic of negotiations on the country's accession to the EU.
Because of this decision, the opposition and pro-Western NGOs called on their supporters to protest spontaneously. Citizens advocating integration with the EU went to the parliament building in Tbilisi. Also, rallies were organized in Gori, Kutaisi, Batumi and Zugdidi.
The main events unfolded in the capital, where protesters blocked Rustaveli Avenue. The protesters were addressed by President Salome Zurabishvili, who said that by this decision the current authorities "declared war on the people."
After that, the situation escalated, as the protesters began to break into the parliament building, where police officers were mobilized. Protesters broke surveillance cameras and attacked security officials.
To disperse pro-Western supporters, special forces with water cannons were called in, which drove the protesters from the avenue. The crowd equipped barricades and set fire to garbage cans according to all the canons of "democratic protests." Police detained 43 rioters, 32 police officers were injured during the collision.
After that, a red level of security was introduced in parliament, restricting access to the building.
Attempts to break into the parliament building are a standard move in the riots of this kind that were observed in Ukraine, in the January riots in Kazakhstan. With the help of the same methods, a change of power in Abkhazia was achieved.
But the Georgian security forces turned out to be more prepared for this scenario, using a limited contingent of police officers to detain the most active participants in the riots and then disperse the participants in the riots.
2022
Refusal to revise the visa-free regime with Russia
On September 1, 2022, against the background of the Russophobic campaign in Europe, the Georgian authorities announced that they did not consider it necessary to revise the visa-free regime with Russia and did not see the risk of Russian citizens being in the country.
EU recognizes Georgia's pledge to join NATO as a mistake
The West has made a number of mistakes in relations with Russia, including Georgia's promise of NATO membership, EU diplomacy chief Borrell said on March 11, 2022.
"I am ready to admit that we have made a number of mistakes and that we have lost the possibility of rapprochement between Russia and the West. There are moments that we could do better, there are things that we proposed and then could not realize, such as the promise that Ukraine and Georgia will become part of NATO... I think it's a mistake to make promises that you can'trealize.'
2012: Georgia unilaterally cancels visas for Russians
The visa regime between Russia and Georgia was introduced in 2000 by decision of Moscow. Since March 1, 2012, Georgia unilaterally canceled the visa regime for Russians.
2008: Georgian President Saakashvili unleashes disastrous war with South Ossetia
In August 2024, the ruling Georgian Dream - Democratic Georgia party officially announced that it was former President Mikheil Saakashvili who was guilty of unleashing the "five-day war" of 2008. Moreover, it is stated that he acted as a "traitor" on instructions from the outside.
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1700: Eastern Georgia as part of Safavid Persia
964: Iberia
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30 BC: Colchis
326 BC: As part of the empire of Alexander the Great
640 BC: Under Scythian domination
From the XIII in BC: Colchis
The name of the region of Colchis was first mentioned in the 13th century BC. e. in Assyrian and Urartian cuneiform writings such as "Kulha," "Kolha" and referred to a strong state education created by the Kolkha tribes living here.
1.77 million hp: Oldovan Homo rudolfensis, Homo ergaster in Dmanisi
Paleolithic site of Dmanisi in Georgia (1.85-1.77 million years ago). There, at the end of 2017, 5 skulls and many lower jaws were found, and small remains from people, which correspond to the first Homo sapiens in morphological level. This is close to the type Homo rudolfensis, Homo ergaster - very primitive people, with small brains of 600-700 grams, short height - 1 meter 40 centimeters, very primitive, with pebble tools like in Olduvai in Tanzania.
The Dmanisi site is a generally accepted Oldovan/Mod 1 reference.
5.5 million hp: Udabnopithecus and oreopithecus
The discovery of the teeth of a fossil anthropoid in Kakheti (Gareji area) was carried out by members of the paleontological expedition of Baku University. The find is described by paleontologist N.O. Burchak-Abromovich and the author of the find E.G. Gabashvili (1945). Age - Upper Miocene (7.246-5.333 million hp) or Lower Pliocene (5.333-3.600 million hp).
The significance of the discovery is due to the fact that udabnopithek is the first fossil great ape discovered in the territory of the former USSR. During the first studies of the find, it was suggested that the systematic position of the udabnopithecus within the boundaries of the hominoid superfamily is unclear. E.N. Mashchenko also does not consider the question of the systematic position of the udabnopithek to be completely clear today, he concluded that the morphotype of this anthropoid is devoid of features of sharply pronounced specialization.
Primatologists assumed that udabnopithek was a tree form that lived in areas of swampy coastal forests. The natural environment of the udabnopithecus corresponded to a fairly hot and humid climate, close to the subtropical[1]
The habitat of great apes in the territory of the former USSR belonged only to part of Transcaucasia. It is assumed that representatives of the families of oreopithecus and pongids were distributed in this territory at the end of the Miocene and became extinct, probably before the beginning of the Pliocene (5.333 million years ago).
At the end of the Miocene, the decline in the range of great apes was associated with the spread of open landscapes and a change in the nature of Europe's forests .
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