At the entrance to the Upper Lars border checkpoint from the Georgian side, a multi-kilometer traffic jam formed from cars towards Russia, RBC reports with reference to the SHOT, Mash and Brief Telegram channels, as well as the VERHNY LARS chat.
According to eyewitnesses, the length of the traffic jam reaches several kilometers, hundreds of cars with both Russian and Georgian numbers stand in line. According to the channels, the queue has already begun to sell places. Data from the Yandex Maps service also testify to traffic difficulties: as of 2:45 a.m., the traffic jam was about 7 km.
At the same time, one of the local residents told the RTVI television channel that traffic jams at the checkpoint occur regularly due to the instability of the checkpoint. Thus, the Upper Lars checkpoint has been closed since March 5 due to bad weather conditions and a high risk of avalanches.
It should be reminded that protests continued in Tbilisi for the second day, which began after the Georgian deputies adopted in the first reading on March 7 the draft law “On transparency of foreign influence”. The Georgian opposition believes that the adoption of this document will limit the activities of independent NGOs and the media. Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili supported the protests and said she would veto the law if the parliament approves the initiative. By the evening of March 8, the building of the Georgian parliament was surrounded by more than 10 thousand protesters who broke the windows of the building and began to throw firecrackers and firecrackers into it. Later, the demonstrators were dispersed, the police used water cannons and tear gas against them.
Source: Rosbalt
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