INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Border guards in the South Caucasus nation of Georgia have denied entry to at least six independent Russian journalists and activists in the
became a popular relocation destination for anti-war Russians following the February invasion of Ukraine
1, Yegor Kuroptev, who heads the South Caucasus branch of the Free Russia Foundation which helps Russian activists relocate abroad, told
Agentstvo.Pussy Riot protest group member Veronika Nikulshina said she was held up at the border for two hours and ultimately turned away on
1 despite having a six-month lease agreement in Georgia.Fellow Pussy Riot member Gala Latygovskaya, who also works at the independent
Mediazona news website, said she was put on a return flight without any explanation from border guards the next day.Several members of the
anti-Kremlin collective are based in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi.Yekaterina Arenina, a journalist with the Proekt investigative outlet
Twitter.Kuroptev told Agentstvo that three more unnamed Russians with long-term housing contracts in Georgia have been denied entry in the
He said it was not immediately clear what caused the latest wave of refusals.The activist noted that a number of previous refusals were
She said around 100,000 of them remained in Georgia.
