PACE President Mr. Kox was for years on the list of those who stood out for their advocacy of Putin's regime and later sympathies for the Georgian Dream, said Giga Bokeria, the leader of European Georgia.

"I personally remember Mr. Kox well, as well as the Georgian delegation after the Rose Revolution, he, together with several other figures, including the leader of the Swiss socialists, the British liberal Mr. Hancock, were distinguished by their advocacy of Putin's regime. Therefore, they took an aggressive position against Georgia.

After the military aggression in Georgia in 2008, Mr. Kox was one of the main speakers who were against taking away votes for Russia, he was a key figure.

Another interesting aspect is that, all these years, even before Mr. Kox came here to observe the elections, if we look at the list of figures in the Council of Europe who were the most prominent spokespeople for pro-Russian, anti-Georgian interests, and later had sympathies or less criticism towards the Georgia­n Dream, if we put these two lists aside, we might not get a 100% match, but we'll get a 90% match, Mr. Kox being one of them.

Both his behavior and the statements we have heard from him over the years regarding the situation in Georgia and in particular the elections, as well as his statements regarding the taking away Russia's vote after the aggression of 2008, are indirect proofs of the events we are dealing with not only in relation to Kox, but also to Ivanishvili and Georgia­n Dream too," said Giga Bokeria.

According to The Dossier Center, an investigative journalism organization founded by Russian dissident Mikhail Khodorkovsky, and EUobserver, Dutch politician Tiny Cox, president of the Strasbourg-based Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), has ties to Russian intelligence services. Kox has categorically denied these allegations and considers them an attempt to damage the Council of Europe and divert attention from the ongoing war in Ukraine.