Fifth President Salome Zurabishvili pointed to the commonality of the protests in Georgia and Serbia, calling them a "fight against Russian influence."
He wrote about this on his X social platform. "Georgia's protests and Serbia's protests are the same fight for freedom, democracy, independence and against Russian rule," Zurabishvili wrote on the social network. At the end of November, mass protests began in Georgia in response. the government's decision to stop negotiations on joining the European Union.
Protests began in Serbia after the tragedy in the city of Novi Sad. On November 1, 15 people died as a result of the collapse of the roof of the railway station.
