“It should be scrutinised how radical groups and the romanticization of Molotov cocktails are funded with American taxpayer money,” said Georgian parliament Speaker Shalva Papuashvili in Maka Tsintsadze’s Actual Topic Program on the GPB’s First Channel.

According to the Speaker, the I Shot campaign is funded by the US budget approved by Congress, and the addressee is the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), which should answer why Americans fund political parties and radical and extremist groups in Georgia.

“I believe it is against American people’s interests to spend money on the romanticization of Molotov Cocktail in a strategic partner country, which fought side by side with American soldiers in Afghanistan and lost more soldiers than any EU country. Of course, this is not honest behaviour, and we want answers to that,” he said.

Shalva Papuashvili said that he had seen the NED Head remarking on the draft bill on Foreign Financing Transparency, saying the funding is in the interest of the Georgian people.

“The poster I shot is part of the Shame movement campaign. Molotov Cocktail was fired on Georgian people for the first time in the history of independent Georgia, and the target was a Georgian police officer. The Shame movement, together with the youth wing of the United National Movement (UNM) party, is a radical group. This was the campaign financed by the money of American and European citizens. Does anyone who finances it want anything good for the Georgian people? They should tell what they finance and what for in this country,” he said.