The Georgian government is beginning to return the country to Russian domination and the Russian model of governance, the fifth President of Georgia, Salome Zurabishvili, said in a speech at the plenary session of the Lithuanian Seimas.

According to her, the crisis in Georgia is escalating and the country is facing an existential challenge.

“The crisis in Georgia is intensifying. In addition to the election fraud, in addition to the political crisis, where the opposition is contesting the election results, when the ruling party is trying to consolidate power at any cost, we are facing a different challenge, which can only be called an existential challenge. The ruling party, which initially came to power with the support of the absolute majority of the country’s population, because it came to power with a pro-European program, a program of democratic reforms, decided on November 28 of last year to turn its back on its own promises, which are spelled out in Article 78 of the Constitution, to turn its back on the nation’s expressed desire for Georgia to join the European family, and against all the expectations and aspirations of the Georgian people, Georgia is beginning to return to Russian domination and the Russian model of governing the country. The Russian nightmare, which we thought was part of history after our independence, is returning to haunt us in the 21st century,” she noted.