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
'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.
- Date
- September 1, 2008
- Period
- Contemporary
- Made by
- 'Stop Russia' campaign, Georgia (billboard sponsor not named; sosgeorgia.org)
- Country
- Georgia
- Medium
- Signs and banners
- Issuer type
- Mixed
- Regime
- Saakashvili Government
- Leader
- Mikheil Saakashvili
- Audience
- Foreign public
- Theme
- War and the military
- Event
- Russo Georgian War
- Techniques
- Fear appeal
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons, retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (PD-self, photographer's own release, per the Wikimedia Commons file page)
Photographer not named on Commons (uploaded as own work), public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
Text on the object
STOP RUSSIA sosgeorgia.org
A small notice above the doorway at street level is too small to read: [illegible].
