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Georgian Dream talks about Western pressure on country's culture
Tea Tsulukiani, one of the leaders of the ruling Georgian Dream party, who recently resigned from her post as deputy prime minister and minister of culture of Georgia to participate in the parliamentary elections on October 26, stated that Western pressure on Georgian culture comes from different directions: stated . This was reported by a correspondent of the Vzglyad newspaper in Tbilisi.
In an interview with Imedi TV, she recalled how “envoys from Brussels put papers on my desk describing how Georgia should perform at foreign cultural festivals.”
She said that shortly after she was appointed culture minister in 2021, she had a meeting with "the ambassador of one of the leading EU countries" during which he "pulled out a small piece of paper from his inside pocket with a list of things to follow people." "We needed to raise funds."