Last year, the slogan for May 26 was Towards Europe. In 2018, Georgia celebrated the 100th anniversary of the First Democratic Republic. In 2017, Georgia’s Independence Day coincided with 850 years since the birth of the Georgian poet Shota Rustaveli who penned the iconic poem, The Knight in the Panther’s Skin. Thus, the slogan of the 2017 Independence Day was “I come from the country of Rustaveli.”