On Sunday, a previously announced protest took place on the Tbilisi-Senaki-Leselidze highway. Demonstrators managed to partially block the road near the Tbilisi Mall and impede traffic, but the police returned them to the sidewalk. Some of the protesters went inside the mall.

A rally dispersal with new arrests is expected in the Georgian capital today. The country's Interior Ministry has issued a warning about the unacceptability of the announced protest with blocking roads at the entrance and exit of Tbilisi. The activists published the corresponding announcement in the Daitove Facebook group on January 30.

Today, February 1, the fifth President of Georgia Salome Zurabishvili arrived in Batumi to support the protesters gathered at Shota Rustaveli State University. Hundreds of university students and activists organized a rally under the slogan "No to the Russian regime", demanding the release of the founder and director of the publishing group "Batumelebi Newspaper" Mzia Amaglobeli.

Despite all attempts by Yerevan to organize a meeting between Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and US President Donald Trump in Washington, this failed. This was reported by the local newspaper Hraparak.

At today's joint briefing, the Georgian opposition appealed to the new Syrian authorities to revoke recognition of the self-proclaimed Republic of Abkhazia. The leader of the "Coalition for Change" Nika Gvaramia noted that putting forward such demands is the prerogative of the Georgian government, but "under the conditions of the practically Russian authorities, this is impossible."

Armenia's integration into the EU will lead to a reduction in the export of Armenian goods by 80% and "total impoverishment of the population." This forecast was voiced by the representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova.

In an interview with the Swiss publication Neue Zürcher ZeitungRussia, Georgian President Mikhail Kavelashvili stated that Russia has occupied Georgian territories, there are no diplomatic relations between the countries, only economic ones remain.

Shakhruddi Edilgiriev, the cousin of the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov, is listed as the owner of four villas in Dubai worth a total of over $20 million. This was reported by Vazhie Istorii, citing the Dubai Unlocked real estate data leak.

Russian billionaire, member of the Federation Council from Dagestan Suleiman Kerimov owned a stake in SpaceX, founded by one of the richest people in the world, American Elon Musk.

A meeting of the Foreign Ministers of Georgia and Armenia was held in Yerevan. Maka Bochorishvili and Ararat Mirzoyan held a joint press conference.