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“Anti-LGBT propaganda” law
Commenting on Georgia’s new “Family Values and Protection of Minors” bill for “Interpressnews,” constitutional law expert Vakhushti Menabde emphasizes a critical point. He notes that even the ruling party “Georgian Dream” acknowledges that this initiative contradicts the current constitutional standard. According to Menabde, the ruling team is offering a vision identical to Putin’s and other authoritarian leaders.
The intention to pass the new law was announced by “Georgian Dream’s” executive secretary Mamuka Mdinaradze at a special briefing on March 25.
He stated that the constitutional changes would protect society from “LGBT propaganda,” “pseudo-liberal ideology, and its inevitable harmful consequences.”
Vakhushti Menabde has three questions regarding the “Georgian Dream’s” initiative:
“The answer to the first question is straightforward: “Georgian Dream” itself admitted that the initiative contradicts the current human rights constitutional standard when they talked about proposing amendments to the constitution. “Dream” realizes that the contradiction with the constitution is so obvious that changing the constitution is necessary to implement this idea.
Regarding the second question, “Georgian Dream” aimed to kill several birds with one stone. On one hand, before the elections [parliamentary elections in Georgia will take place in October 2024 — JAMnews], the right-conservative profile has become even more noticeable. Thus, the party wants to exhaust the electoral resources available in this plan.
On the other hand, this initiative deepens polarization – it manipulates pseudo-traditional values and tries to turn them into a topic for pre-election debates, forcing other parties to take a specific stance on this issue.
At the same time, taking the discussion to the constitutional level also means that “Georgian Dream” is testing the waters – with this move, it offers a societal structure vision for Georgia identical to the authoritarian vision of Putin and other undemocratic leaders.
The Georgian Dream sees the many problems facing the citizens of Georgia. It also understands that it can offer nothing to its voters to solve these issues. The management team does not know how to address the social, economic, foreign policy, and other problems it faces, so the only thing it can do is create a problem to talk about.
But, if the Georgian Dream truly cares about the Georgian family, it should focus on strengthening their financial situation. It should explain how to bring back thousands of parents with their children to Georgia, how to prevent children from going hungry at home and school. Instead, it offers a discussion on made-up issues that concern no one and can bring nothing but division to society.”
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As @JeffFisch notes, the collapse of the Key Bridge means that the Baltimore Port will be unusable for many months.
It’s the 13th most important US port for foreign trade
The economic impact on the city, which is already plagued by social misery and violent crime, will be huge pic.twitter.com/ZpPcb4Ombs
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Item 1 of 5 View of the burning Crocus City Hall concert venue following a shooting incident, outside Moscow, Russia, March 22, 2024. REUTERS/Yulia Morozova
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All that was left after Friday evening’s attack at the Crocus City Hall outside Moscow, which Islamic State has claimed responsibility for, were the charred iron support beams and the steel frames of hundreds of seats.
The centre, with capacity of more than 6,000 seats, was built by billionaire Aras Agalarov’s Crocus Group in 2009. It is part of a sprawling complex of shopping malls, restaurants and hotels on the western edge of the capital, just outside Moscow’s ring road.
“We will never forget those who fell victims to terrorists. What was destroyed by their dirty hands will be restored,” Crocus Group said in a statement.
Camouflage-clad gunmen opened fire with automatic weapons in the attack at the concert hall just before Soviet-era rock group Picnic was to perform its hit “Afraid of Nothing”. The building was set on fire, after which its roof collapsed, and hundreds of firefighters battled for hours to contain the blaze.
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Американское издание Bloomberg провело расследование, в ходе которого выявило множество примеров незаконной торговли и активации комплектов спутниковой системы Starlink от SpaceX Илона Маска. Starlink задумывался как способ обеспечить доступность качественного интернета в местах… pic.twitter.com/s8YHlTJlfB
— DW на русском (@dw_russian) March 26, 2024
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Hezbollah targets Israel’s military positions in pro-Palestine retaliatory strikes
https://t.co/lagPMtIC5s— Press TV
(@PressTV) March 26, 2024
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Американское издание Bloomberg провело расследование, в ходе которого выявило множество примеров незаконной торговли и активации комплектов спутниковой системы Starlink от SpaceX Илона Маска. Starlink задумывался как способ обеспечить доступность качественного интернета в местах… pic.twitter.com/s8YHlTJlfB
— DW на русском (@dw_russian) March 26, 2024
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