Meladze claimed that an Ivanishvili representative approached him recently to propose editorial changes to Rustavi2’s broadcasts. Khalvashi, who is widely suspected of fronting for the interests of Ivanishvili and Georgian Dream, was restored as Rustavi2’s owner last month by a Georgian court after a protracted legal battle. The newscasters’ demarche followed the firing of the station’s news executive, Nodar Meladze, as well as a number of prominent hosts, by the network’s new owner, Kibar Khalvashi.
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“The fight for a better future and a free Georgia continues,” he said. “This is the end for me as well,” added co-host Mikhail Sesiashvili. “Good luck to everyone here at Rustavi2 and to the person who will take my seat.’”
“We have fought hard but Bidzina Ivanishvili has finally occupied Rustavi2 and free speech was taken away from us,” Jojua said.
She alleged that the billionaire leader of the country’s ruling Georgian Dream party, Bidzina Ivanishvili, was planning to take over the opposition-minded network and turn it into his mouthpiece. “For 13 years I’ve been greeting you from this studio and today I’m more nervous than I was when for the first time I said ‘This is Kurieri at 9,’” said news presenter Diana Jojua during the show’s August 20 evening broadcast. The hosts of Georgia’s top news show, Kurieri, walked off the job during a live broadcast to protest what they called a looming government takeover of their television network, Rustavi2. A screenshot from the last broadcast of Kurieri, the flasghip news program of opposition network Rustavi2, before they walked off the job to protest what they said was looming government censorship.
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