Georgia protests: Police push protesters back from parliament

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Police push back protesters in Georgian capital

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On Wednesday evening, police pushed back protesters who pulled down a metal barrier outside parliament.Pictures from Georgian TV showed hundreds of riot police on the streets late on Wednesday night, wearing helmets and holding shields. At least one police car had been overturned. "People are really angry because this is not about one specific thing, it's about the future of Georgia and it's about how we'll function as a country," another demonstrator named Tekla Tevdorashvili told the BBC.

Prime Minister Irakli Gharibashvili denounced the "stir" over the draft law, which went through its first reading inside parliament on Tuesday. Ruling party Georgian Dream maintains the legislation dates back to US legislation in the 1930s. The same argument was used by Russia after it passed a similar law in 2012.

"Again and again they are trying everything to take us far away from the European Union, European values," said 30-year-old Luka Kimeridze. Political tensions in Georgia have been heightened by Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, seen by many Georgians as a war of aggression by Moscow, and many thousands of Russians have fled there. However, the government in Tbilisi has adopted a neutral stance, refusing to openly back Ukraine or impose sanctions on Russia.

 

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Well who says foreigners are always wrong, anyway? The tinier the country, the greater the ratio of foreigners and their opinions. Ask their people to believe the whole world is wrong and criminalise foreigners, and you'll end up like Slovenia or something

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What kind if a clickbait headline is that? I hear the opposite.

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