Georgian Parliament Speaker Shalva Papuashvili echoed the latest campaign against the country on Twitter, saying the “vicious campaign, based on two lies, turned out to be futile.”

“In the last year and a half, the vicious campaign against Georgia’s democratic image rested on two major lies: First, former president Mikheil Saakashvili’s alleged torture in detention; and, second, alleged evasion of sanctions imposed on Russia by the Western community.

Both of these myths have now been obliterated first by the decision of the European Court of Human Rights, which confirmed the protection of Saakashvili’s rights by the Georgian authorities, including the enjoyment of full medical services, and which left Saakashvili in the Georgian clinic to continue to serve his sentence. And, also, by the conclusions of the sanctions envoys of the US, UK, and the EU, who have confirmed that Georgia ensures the prevention of sanctions evasion.

Georgia’s system against sanctions evasion deserves high praise and there has been not a single fact of circumvention of sanctions. Georgia now has won this unequal battle, in which the Georgian government was equipped only with bare truth.

The opponents, on the other hand, had millions of dollars, which now have been wasted, to damage Georgia’s democratic achievements and create a smog of lies, misperceptions, and disinformation. Also, these actors, both domestic and foreign, submerged in political corruption, used Russian hybrid tactics against Georgia.

In the last few days, we see the last desperate attempts of these forces to reverse the situation, which, needless to say, will not happen, because the bubble of lies has already burst beyond Georgia’s borders too,” he tweeted.