"They started a campaign against Russian tourists... They want to provoke aggression, start persecuting them, assaulting them in restaurants..." Kavelashvili

Former Dream member Mikheil Kavelashvili comments on the opposition:

From the information that I have, there is some increase, whatever the pre-pandemic figure was, but not by a large amount, if I'm not mistaken, yet. Basically more tourists were coming from Russia than are coming in. I have that information, I'll check again. Again, it's easy to decipher, and I believe my community will do a proper analysis based on this information...

Even today these people are so easy to decipher that they have launched a campaign against Russian tourists, everyone gathered together, their experts, politicians, NGO sector, started with this statistic and then moved on to Melia's letter, now Gotsiridze will write something, then NGOs will write something and they want to campaign against Russian tourists.., we all know that they want to provoke aggression, start chasing them in the streets, harassing them in restaurants, look, Russian tourists want to conquer us, and then it became clear that we should introduce a visa regime...

It all comes down to one thing. I'll list it again: the rhetoric of war was not successful, the sanctions were not successful, they couldn't drag us in either the war or the sanctions, then the whole Ackerman group attempting to organize a revolution and form a technical government, that too, failed. The subject that the status was given to them, not us, did not accomplish their plans either.

These people are pathetic and will be so tomorrow. Why? Look, the majority of Georgia's population had a very correct assessment of the current reality. Even today our action serves exactly that purpose. Look, the fact that we started this is balanced by the fact that these people are now preparing for the next stage," said Kavelashvili.