Sova reported the departure at 19:36 on Friday, citing the rights group Rights Georgia, which reported his departure from Tbilisi International Airport, and published his farewell letter. Paper Kartuli reported the same evening that he had arrived at the airport to leave for a third country.
The arrival came through an activist. Kavkaz-Uzel, at 23:58, reported that Kulanin had landed at Zvartnots and that Marina Meskhi had posted a video of his welcome at the Yerevan airport on Facebook.
He used the first evening of the 7.
The chronology is short and it is Georgia's. Kulanin, 30, a former volunteer of Alexei Navalny's Rostov office, was detained on Rustaveli Avenue on 28 March 2025 for damaging a police car during a protest, admitted the act, and received 2 years in June 2025. Georgian rights groups listed him as a political prisoner. Kavelashvili pardoned him on 27 August, on Mariamoba. From 29 August he refused food and water in the migration centre for fear of deportation to Russia, with his passport's whereabouts unknown to him, and on 1 September the ticket to Armenia that activists had bought him expired while the migration department asked the court to send him to Russia. On Friday the court granted the department's expulsion motion: 7 days to leave voluntarily, to any country, and no handover to Russia.
He used the first evening of the 7. By Friday afternoon the order had not reached the migration service, his lawyer Tsiala Ratiashvili said; by Friday night he was in Yerevan.
What the exit closes is the demand the Rustaveli protest carried on its placards last week. What it leaves open is the other demand on the same placards: the investigation into the death of the Abkhaz blogger Daur Buava, where no new charge and no forensic result surfaced over the weekend in the Georgian and Russian outlets we read.