{"id":35427,"date":"2025-10-16T12:12:32","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T12:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/world\/in-georgia-the-osce-head-was-fined-over-1-8-thousand-for-blocking-a-road-during-a-protest\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T12:12:32","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T12:12:32","slug":"in-georgia-the-osce-head-was-fined-over-1-8-thousand-for-blocking-a-road-during-a-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/world\/in-georgia-the-osce-head-was-fined-over-1-8-thousand-for-blocking-a-road-during-a-protest\/","title":{"rendered":"In Georgia, the OSCE head was fined over $1.8 thousand for blocking a road during a protest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia fined the current OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Finnish Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen, 5,000 lari for illegally blocking a road. This happened during her visit to Tbilisi on October 14-15, when she joined an anti-government protest.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/unn.ua\/_next\/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimg.unn.ua%2Fimg%2F2025%2F10%2F16%2F1760612221-1561-large.webp&amp;w=720&amp;q=75\" alt=\"In Georgia, the OSCE head was fined over $1.8 thousand for blocking a road during a protest\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia fined the current OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Finnish Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen, 5,000 lari &#8211; over $1,800 &#8211; for illegally blocking a road during a protest, UNN reports with reference to &quot;News of Georgia&quot;.<\/p>\n<h2>Details<\/h2>\n<p>At this stage, it is unknown whether Valtonen was served with a protocol on administrative violation and whether she managed to pay the fine before leaving Georgia.<\/p>\n<p>The Finnish Foreign Minister was in Tbilisi on an official visit on October 14-15. On Tuesday, she joined participants of an anti-government rally on Rustaveli Avenue. Demonstrators blocked the roadway, although their numbers did not require it.<\/p>\n<p>Georgia sent a protest note to the OSCE over the participation of the organization&#039;s head in a protest action in Tbilisi16.10.25, 13:43 \u2022 1308 views<\/p>\n<p>Valtonen stated that she thus wanted to express support for freedom of speech in Georgia.<\/p>\n<h2>Recall<\/h2>\n<p>On October 15, the government announced that Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze had canceled a meeting with Valtonen because she had participated in an &quot;illegal action&quot; and made &quot;false statements&quot; about Georgia.<\/p>\n<p>OSCE head and Georgian PM&#039;s meeting canceled: who changed their mind and what do protests have to do with it15.10.25, 20:10 \u2022 5150 views<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia fined the current OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Finnish Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen, 5,000 lari for illegally blocking a road. This happened during her visit to Tbilisi on October 14-15, when she joined an anti-government protest. The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia fined the current OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Finnish Foreign Minister [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35428,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-35427","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}