Georgia’s government is trying to push through a Kremlin-style ‘foreign agents’ law. But the country’s Gen Z protesters see their futures in Europe, writes Will Cathcart from Tbilisi.
Riot police in gas masks and balaclavas emerge like a dystopian infantry in the haze of tear gas that envelops Rustaveli Avenue, the Georgian capital’s main thoroughfare. They snatch protesters from the crowd and drag them back into a mass of black uniforms. Inside their ranks, the beatings continue. Hundreds of thousands of people have taken to the streets across Georgia in recent weeks to protest the government’s adoption of a Kremlin-inspired “foreign agents” bill.
” Last month, the head of the Georgian Dream party in parliament, Mamuka Mdinaradze, claimed that Western NGOs are a front for a “Soviet-style campaign” to discredit the Georgian judiciary, disseminate “pseudo-liberal ideology” and “so-called LGBT propaganda,” and undermine “public trust in the Georgian Orthodox Church.” It’s a lot to take in.
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