Bidzina's Chinese Maradona says nobody has been able to provide evidence for so long that his master is Russia’s man - wherever you look and whatever you look into, Russia is everywhere, - Zurab Girchi Japaridze, one of the leaders of the Coalition for Change, writes in a letter sent from prison, which has been posted on his Facebook page. Japaridze responds to Irakli Kobakhidze's statement that "there is no fact confirming Bidzina Ivanishvili's Russian connections".

According to him, the regime's propaganda repeats Russian propaganda narratives one by one.

“Bidzina's Chinese Maradona says nobody has been able to provide evidence for so long that his master is Russia’s man.

Let’s see what I remember here, without any Google or Chat GPT:

In 2012, as soon as he came to power, the first thing he did was release Russian agents with the status of political prisoners. If you ask him, they won’t even hide it from you: Shkrylnikov, Chakhaliani, Gevorkian and others.

Most of the participants in the Kodori operation (when the Russians were destroyed in Kodori) died under unclear circumstances.

Russian agents move into Georgian military bases and they don’t deny it.

If there was anyone in the Georgian Dream who was greeted in the West, they all threw them out or turned into cattle (Alasania’s teammates).

The former deputy head of the State Security Service describes in detail how Bidzina’s Minister of Internal Affairs and the head of the State Security Service meet Russian counterintelligence agents, and how they sort out certain topics.

The regime’s propaganda repeats Russian propaganda narratives one by one.

Bidzina’s Prosecutor General, who previously headed the prosecutor’s office (now they are scolding him), was sanctioned by the US for creating a pro-Russian network in Georgia and exerting pro-Russian influence on political processes.

If this is not enough, the same person changed his last name, from Partskhaladze to Romanov; if this is not enough, he became a Russian citizen; and if this is not enough, he runs around Red Square with a St. George ribbon.

What more can he do to make us believe that he is Russian? That Bidzina appointed a Russian as Prosecutor General and he ran the Prosecutor's Office for almost 13 years. Moreover, he allowed this man to transfer all his local assets to his son, and a hole was created in the Georgian financial system because of this man by the regulation of the President of the National Bank.

Before Bidzina, Georgia's exports to the US and EU were about a quarter of exports. Now it is about a tenth (including the UK).

Before Bidzina, Georgia's exports to the CIS were about 50%, now it is about 70%. (If I remember these numbers correctly, but I can't be very wrong).

In other words, we are again hanging on to the "Russian market" as if 2006 had not happened.

After 2012, practically nothing has been done in Georgia's defense, and today we are the last in the region in terms of defense capabilities. Whose interest is it?

Relations with NATO are formally maintained, and in reality, the integration process is dead. Who benefits from this?

The country is in complete isolation from the civilized world and we are losing what we had gained with great difficulty: free trade and an association agreement with the EU, visa-free travel to the Schengen zone, international financial assistance, which should have financed projects of regional importance. Who benefits from this?

Instead of a consolidated liberal democracy, which would have been a guarantee of peace and stability, as well as a prerequisite for full-fledged integration into the most peaceful European space, the country has become a consolidated dictatorship, which no one knows when will explode (sooner rather than later). Who benefits from this?

The country is losing the potential of a regional transport hub, which, on the one hand, would make it easier for Central Asia to attract Western capital and escape from Russian influence, and on the other hand, would help the same Central Asian countries export their raw materials and products to the West. Who benefits from this?

Well, you can really write endlessly, wherever you look and whatever you look into, there is Russia everywhere. You just need to know a little about your own country's history, nothing more is needed to see this.

But leaving all this aside, who benefits from the fact that the formal ruler of this country is an unfortunate sociopath, Komsomol member, to whom no self-respecting person has spoken for months now,” writes Zura Japaridze.