Putin's new special operation
Georgia, like Moldova a week before, has just voted on its future candidacy for membership in the European Union, but the election results show that the party supported by Russia is in the lead.
After the final count, the Georgian Dream party obtained nearly 55% of the vote. Over the past year, the party has implemented a series of laws resembling Russian policies, including those that restrict freedom of expression.
Only the country's president, Salome Zurabishvili, believes that fraud was widespread:
"There is fraud, I would say, a bit classic, traditional, ballot stuffing in rural areas where there are fewer observations. There is also voter intimidation with groups of young people more or less drugged who come to walk around the polling stations. There is intimidation of public sector employees," she said on LCI.
Even more worrying, General Michel Yakovleff, former vice chief of staff of SHAPE (NATO) estimated that if Putin declares a special operation by attacking Georgia, "NATO will not move".
(MH with AmBar/Source: LCI/Photo: DPA/Russian Look/Kremlin Pool)