Georgia, 2025 — dissident coup attempt

Event Summary

The dataset records an event coded as an attempted coup in Georgia on 7 October 2025, arising from the turmoil surrounding disputed local elections and mass opposition protests against the increasingly authoritarian, Russia aligned ruling Georgian Dream party. The South Caucasus nation had been convulsed by a prolonged political crisis since the contested 2024 parliamentary elections and the government's suspension of European Union accession talks, which triggered sustained pro Western demonstrations and a fierce state crackdown. On 4 October 2025, as Georgian Dream held local elections that the main opposition boycotted, huge protests erupted in Tbilisi, and a crowd attempted to storm the presidential palace, which the government denounced as an attempted coup or violent overthrow.

Authorities responded with force and arrested opposition figures, accusing them and outside actors of plotting to seize power by unconstitutional means; the opposition, in turn, cast the demonstrations as a legitimate popular uprising against a captured, illegitimate government. Given how recent these events are and the sharply competing narratives around them, the details remain contested and are difficult to verify definitively from the sources available in this session; the entry reflects the dataset's coding and the broadly reported context of the 2025 crisis while flagging the specifics as unconfirmed.