Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova commented on Monday on the insulting remarks made by Georgian journalist Giorgi Gabunia about Russian President Vladimir Putin on live television, calling the whole situation “Georgia’s problem.”
On Sunday evening, Gabunia opened his show “Post Scriptum,” broadcast by Rustavi 2 channel, with a monologue about Putin that featured extremely obscene language. The journalist’s remarks have already been condemned by Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili and Prime Minister Mamuka Bakhtadze. The broadcaster’s CEO, Nika Gvaramia, has said he shares Gabunia’s stance but considers obscene language on air unacceptable. Several hundred people gathered outside the broadcaster’s office in Tbilisi overnight to protest against Gabunia.
“Georgia’s problem,” Zakharova told Sputnik, when asked to comment on the incident, without adding anything else.
Late on Sunday, hundreds of Tbilisi residents gathered outside Rustavi 2 office, throwing eggs at the building and demanding that both Gabunia and Gvaramia be fired. The broadcaster had to temporarily suspend its operations to ensure the “full safety of the company and journalists” and only resumed broadcasting on Monday morning.
