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title: '''Stop Russia'' billboard, Rustaveli Avenue, Tbilisi, 2008'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/stop-russia-billboard-tbilisi-2008/
description: A building-high black billboard shows a weeping woman clutching a small child in front of a shattered apartment block, above the red and white words…
section: Collection
---

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**Content note:** Billboard photograph of a weeping woman and child in front of a bombed apartment block. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[!['Stop Russia' billboard, Rustaveli Avenue, Tbilisi, 2008](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/stop-russia-billboard-tbilisi-2008.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/stop-russia-billboard-tbilisi-2008.jpg)

# 'Stop Russia' billboard, Rustaveli Avenue, Tbilisi, 2008

A building-high black billboard shows a weeping woman clutching a small child in front of a shattered apartment block, above the red and white words 'STOP RUSSIA' and the address sosgeorgia.org. Georgian flags are carried by the crowd below. The tells are civilian suffering staged as the evidence and a single prescribed demand, with no other option or context offered.

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
STOP RUSSIA
sosgeorgia.org
```

A small notice above the doorway at street level is too small to read: [illegible].

[← LDPR rally at the Georgian embassy, Moscow: 'Saakashvili = Hitler', 13 August 2008](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/ldpr-saakashvili-hitler-rally-moscow-2008/) [Arirang Mass Games: card-mosaic backdrop, Rungnado May Day Stadium (photographed 2008) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/arirang-mass-games-card-mosaic-2008/)

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