After Revolution and War, Is Georgia Echoing Ukraine’s Uprising?
The latest protests in Tbilisi are a reminder of the Maidan movement in 2013, but the government is in no mood for compromise.
Nana Dvalishvili is angry. Standing outside Georgia’s parliament in central Tbilisi along with thousands of fellow anti-government protesters, she says her country’s leaders never seem to learn from history.
“It happens all the time,” said the 55-year-old real estate agent, who came with her teenage children to demonstrate. “A government gets elected because it wants us to vote and then doesn’t want to go peacefully and democratically. Then we have to rally, and they use force.”