Georgians are going to the polls to decide whether to end 12 years of increasingly authoritarian rule, in a decisive vote on their push to join the European Union.
Some see this election as the most crucial vote since Georgians backed independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. “I voted for a new Georgia,” said pro-Western President Salome Zourabichvili.
The governing Georgian Dream party is widely expected to come first, but four opposition groups believe they can combine forces to remove it from power and revive Georgia’s EU process.
Great, so Putin will launch a propaganda war and since everyone uses social media he’ll get his way.
The vote is today, the propaganda war has been ongoing for years
Moldova just voted for European integration despite what seems to have been extensive Russian efforts to push it the other way
Putin managed to turn a referendum that would have been a clear 70/30 win a decade ago to a razor sharp 50/50 race. It’s frightening.
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