All right, Alexander, let's talk about what is happening in Georgia and also in Armenia, protests in both countries, but two very different types of protests.

One protest is authentic because there are no EU flags.

The other protest doesn't seem very authentic because there's a lot of EU flags.

And we got the word just... The other protest doesn't seem very authentic because there's a lot of EU flags.

And we got the word just a moment ago that the law for the foreign agents bill has been passed.

The president of Georgia vetoed it, but the government has decided to pass the law either way. The president of Georgia's veto was pretty much symbolic, but the NGO foreign

agents law act is now law. So that is the latest update on Georgia. But two very different types of protests.

What do you make of them?

Maybe we start with Georgia first.

Yeah, I think so.

Let's start with Georgia first.

The important thing about the protests in Georgia, as you rightly said, is that, firstly,

they have a very artificial look about them. I don't mean that all the people

who have come up and protested, every single person there has been paid to do it or anything like that.

No doubt, a lot of them believe it. But this has basically been organized by the NGOs themselves,

by the people who worry that they're going to lose out as a result of this law.

And of course, the key thing to understand is that elections are coming in Georgia, parliamentary elections.

This law makes it much more difficult from this point going forward for the NGOs to influence

the outcome of those elections, which is what this is all about. Now, opinion polls suggest that the

current government is going to win those elections and win those elections by a decisive margin.

I expect protests to continue up to the elections.

I suspect that after the elections we're going to see more protests still denying the legitimacy of the elections.

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