It is hard to convey how poor 🇬🇪 really is. Reportedly, around 34% of the population has requested state assistance, and about 12% lives below the poverty line - itself defined without any consideration of basic realities. For example, I hear lots of stories that owning a fridge disqualifies you. 1/
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Against this backdrop, Bidzina Ivanishvili personally owns assets worth around 20-25% of national GDP, from what I know (in 2015, RFE/RL put it at 35%). 2/
In a way, the miracle is that we still resist. #GeorgiaProtests 3/3.
#StandWithGeorgianPeople
For us - even when stuff can be seized for debt - a fridge is excluded. Right next to the stove, TV and Furniture. Those items are just necessary for living.