In this hostile environment, the official delegation of the Georgian Parliament will not take part in the next EuroNest sessions until we see a willingness for dialogue. Such a statement made today Speaker of the legislature.

“It’s a fact that we are being lectured in the name of Europe by post-Soviet individuals - Gorbachev’s ally Rasa Juknevičienė and Sergey Lagodinsky, who was born and raised in Astrakhan and is now presented to us as a German MEP. This is a clear example of the saying: you can take a person out of the Soviet Union, but you can’t take the Soviet Union out of a person. These are exactly the people who look at Georgia with the same Soviet mindset and believe that the Georgian people can be tamed.

The Government of Georgia doesn’t need lessons on European values from Gorbachev’s associate Rasa Juknevičienė and Astrakhan-born Sergey Lagodinsky”, - said Shalva Papuashvili.