As Saakashvili points out, there is only one solution - a tireless struggle.

"I was put in jail for creating a modern state, discovering new cities, resisting Russian interventions. I was put in jail and I am being killed for increasing the economy four times, the budget twelve times, the pensions ten times, for bringing back the pride and fame of Georgia centuries later and for becoming an object of good envy for the whole region. I am being punished for making Georgia a world-class player for the first time in history”, reads the address.

Saakashvili said he came back because he saw that everything had been halted in Georgia.

“Georgia needs rapid development. We will definitely build Lazika and each Georgian will have more income than our compatriots in Poland, Greece or Italy have today.

We are told that protests hinder the development of the country. It is like telling a person who is drowning in a swamp not to shake his hand.

For me personally, the choice is clear - either death or freedom, because Georgia will die without freedom and then my life will be pointless. There is only one solution - a tireless struggle.

In 2008 the whole world stood by us, now practically no one says a word to protect us. There is no alternative to a solid Euro-Atlantic course - now Georgia is not going anywhere. It is going to Russia, which has deployed its representatives in our special services, in the Armed Forces, everywhere, even in the church.

Our path is Europe and only Europe. As a person who first officially established and raised the EU flag, which they are trying to lower and have even managed to do so twice, I say that in Georgia's freely elected parliament, where there will be coalition governance, all laws must pass the EU compliance test, with experts appointed by the EU, and only then they should be voted on”,  - Saakashvili says in his letter.