MASSIVE Protests Against Russia In Tblisi, Georgia

[FelineOverlord]

This has been going on for several days. Apparently the government have been taken over by Russia.

Jay in Kyiv
@JayinKyiv
The closer one lives to Russia, the more you understand the importance of keeping them out.

Tblisi.

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Jay in Kyiv
@JayinKyiv
The ex-president being slowly poisoned to death by russians in prison, government totally taken over by Russians, 20% of the country militarily occupied by Russians.

Georgians have had enough.

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NEXTA
@nexta_tv
The number of people on the "Heroes Square" in #Tbilisi is growing by the minute

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Nodar Rukhadze
@xonoda
This is Tbilisi. Heart of Europe. 10:25

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Nodar Rukhadze
@xonoda
Warning: Georgian Dream is using illegal gangs to target the youth on the streets of Tbilisi, reminiscent of the tactics used by the Yanukovych regime. Just an hour ago, peaceful protesters were assaulted by around 20 individuals who physically attacked the youth, resulting in injuries.

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George Melashvili 🇺🇦🇬🇪
@geomel_ge
Tbilisi Opera right now after the @BerlinPhil

[Wounded Bear]

1. K&R...nt

[OAITW r.2.0]

2. Wow, another nation-state standing up to Russia,

I don't see a Russian Army capable of enforcing it's will on Georgia. Hope they throw Russia out and all of their Georgian sycophants in jail.

[Crunchy Frog]

7. There aren't that many people in Georgia.

I believe around 3.5 million, and the country is already partially occupied by russian military.

I also doubt they have much of a military themselves, especially being under a pro-russian government.

So I don't know what russia might be able to do there. I believe they also have riot police aligned with russia, similar to what Ukraine dealt with during the Maidan mass protests.

It's a very worrying situation.

[enid602]

3. Putin's door

Georgia, Chechnya, Belarus, all the ‘istans.’ They’ll all be at Putin’s door.

[Uncle Joe]

4. Kicked and recommended

Thanks for the thread FelineOverlord

[Fla Dem]

5. Putin's not going to stop until he has reconstructed the Russian empire.

He's insane.

[Swede]

6. Putin occupies huge area of Georgia.

I'm surprised there isn't more rumblings there.

[LeftInTX]

8. UN, EU, US urge Georgia to halt 'foreign agents' bill as protests grow

The European Union, United Nations, and the United States have condemned legislation making its way through Georgia’s parliament on “foreign agents”, as thousands of protesters snarled traffic in the country’s capital Tbilisi on Thursday with a large new protest against the bill.

Protesters poured into Heroes’ Square, a key junction through which much of Tbilisi’s traffic passes between the city’s neighbourhoods. Long queues of vehicles remained blocked.

“We are all together to show the Kremlin’s puppets that we will not accept the government that goes against the Georgian people’s wishes,” said protester Giorgi Loladze, 27, from Kutaisi, Georgia’s third-largest city.

Tens of thousands of protesters had shut down central Tbilisi a day earlier in the largest anti-government rally yet. Police fired tear gas and stun grenades to clear some of them.

The bill – attacked by opponents as authoritarian and Kremlin-inspired – has completed two of three readings in the parliament and the latest comments reflected alarm in both Washington and Brussels over the country’s future direction.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/eu-official-calls-georgias-foreign-agents-bill-unacceptable-2024-05-02/