The President of Georgia, Salome Zurabishvili, in an interview with Public Television, explained why she used the expression "Armenian carousel" when talking about the falsification of parliamentary elections, she writes.Ekhokavkaza:the periodical.
"I want to address the citizens of Georgia with Armenian nationality and the Armenians living in the neighboring country, Armenia, where Russian propaganda is also active. The phrase "Armenian carousel" did not have any ethnic connotations," Zurabishvili said. According to the head of Georgia, he heard this phrase for the first time when he returned to Georgia during the reign of Eduard Shevardnadze. According to him, the same method of forgery was used during the reign of Mikheil Saakashvili.
"If I'm not mistaken, in Armenia they call it "Georgian carousel".
There is no ethnic coloring in this at all," Zurabishvili added. It is known from the sources available on the Internet that in Serbia, North Macedonia, Hungary, Bosnia and Herzegovina, a similar situation is called "Bulgarian train", and in Bulgaria, "Indian thread".
