Ahead of the parliamentary elections to be held in Georgia on October 26, the Center for Democracy Studies published a report on the pre-election situation in the country. According to its data, the ruling Georgian Dream party uses violence and pressure on the opposition, uses state resources for its own purposes, and drives civil servants and public sector employees to its events.

Russian military personnel committed 187 crimes in the Kursk region – murders, rapes, etc. These statistics were announced by the deputy head of the Main Military-Political Directorate of the Russian Armed Forces, commander of the Akhmat volunteer formation, Apti Alaudinov.

Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili, in an interview with Formula TV, said that the transition to coalition governance would be a significant step forward for the country, ending more than 30 years of one-party rule. She stressed the importance of learning coalition governance and said that four pro-Western parties would have to effectively govern the country.

Karabakh was and is an internationally recognized territory of Azerbaijan. This was stated by the speaker of the Armenian parliament Alen Simonyan.

The West offered the former Prime Minister of Georgia Irakli Garibashvili to start a war with Russia. This was stated by the founder of the ruling party "Georgian Dream", oligarch, former citizen of the Russian Federation Bidzina Ivanishvili in an interview with the TV company "Imedi".

Georgia will not be able to become a member of the European Union if its government does not change its course. The organization calls for free and fair holding of the upcoming parliamentary elections. This was reported in a joint statement by the ministers for European affairs of 13 EU member states.

Representatives of the opposition and civil society held a march in Tbilisi under the slogan "Georgia chooses the European Union". The participants spoke in favor of the country's European integration and accused the current authorities, represented by the ruling Georgian Dream party, of changing their foreign policy course and hindering further movement towards the EU.

Bidzina Ivanishvili, founder of Georgia's ruling Georgian Dream party, has accused opposition members of sabotaging Georgia's accession to the EU.