Rally in Support of Savchenko in Tbilisi

A demonstration, also involving performance by the Georgian National Ballet Sukhishvili, in support of Ukrainian army pilot Nadia Savchenko, held in the Russian custody since 2014, was held outside the Russian Federation Interests Section of the Embassy of Switzerland in Tbilisi just before midnight on March 21. The demonstration, demanding the release of Savchenko, was organized by a campaign group, Defend Liberty, uniting over dozen of civil society organizations, think tanks and media outlets, launched in 2015 with the purpose to, as it put it, counter “Russia’s aggressive propaganda campaign against the West in Georgia.”