“The attacks by United National Movement ‘titushkas’ on Tbilisi’s election headquarters are clear examples of foreign interference in elections, aimed at creating a violent pre-election environment,” writes Georgian Parliament Speaker Shalva Papuashvili on social media.

Papuashvili commented on the confrontation that occurred near Kakha Kaladze’s election headquarters on Melikishvili Avenue.

“In this process, beyond the extremist groups incited by certain foreign diplomats, they have involved externally funded propaganda platforms, including the Brussels-funded Netgazeti, which not only provides propaganda for violence but actually organises violent attacks on Georgian Dream’s election headquarters itself.

We have seen biased, partisan, yellow, all kinds of media, but ‘violent media’ is a new phenomenon which, following the example of Rwanda’s “Thousand Hills Free Radio and Television” (Radio Télévision Libre des Mille Collines, RTLM), is a product created by foreign donors,” writes Papuashvili.