Georgian President not invited to service honoring fallen cadets during Red Army invasion

Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili has not been invited to the service in the yard of the country’s parliament in Tbilisi honoring the memory of young, fallen military cadets during the Russian Red Army invasion in 1921, Parliament Speaker Shalva Papuashvili confirmed on Friday. 

Papuashvili claimed Zourabichvili, who is in controversy with the Georgian Dream authorities over the country’s foreign course and the Russia-Ukraine conflict, was invited to attend the ceremony last year, but as he said the President had refused to accept the invitation. 

The President’s office said earlier during the day Zourabichvili had not received an invitation to attend the service. 

The Red Army invasion of Georgia put an end to the three-year-rule of the First  Democratic Republic of Georgia, with then officials forced to flee.