The ongoing protests in Georgia have been compared to the Maidan in Kiev, Ukraine, and the European Union's response has been called "hypocritical" by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. Lavrov believes the law on the registration of non-governmental organizations that receive foreign funding in the amount of 20% of the entire budget was a pretext to try and change the government by force. 

Speaker of the Russian Duma, Vyacheslav Volodin, claims Washington did not allow Georgia to become a sovereign state, and the draft law on foreign agents submitted to the Georgian Parliament was unacceptable to the United States. Volodin believes Washington used "soft power levers" to bring people to the streets, and any state that disagrees with them is at risk of receiving a "color revolution" in response. He further states that if the law is adopted, Georgia would have the right to control the funds that enter the country from abroad and are used to finance political parties. 

The video of protesters chanting "Sukhumi, Sukhumi" caught the attention of Kremlin propagandist Margarita Simonyan, who believes the protests are an attempt to open a second front. Simonyan expresses his pity for the city and its inhabitants, arguing that they don't know themselves. 

The protests in Georgia have been ongoing for weeks and have been met with criticism from the international community. The EU has called for a peaceful resolution to the conflict, while Russia has accused the US of interfering in the domestic political life of the country. It remains to be seen what the outcome of the protests will be and how the international community will respond.