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TexasTowelie

(128,150 posts) Mon Oct 6, 2025, 03:17 AM Oct 2025

Georgia: Police clash with anti-government protesters - DW News

Georgian police have clashed with anti-government protesters who tried to storm the presidential palace in the capital. The unrest in Tbilisi followed a municipal election boycotted by the main opposition blocs amid a sweeping crackdown on dissent. Actvists say it's the last chance to save democracy in the former Soviet republic.

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0:00 Georgian police clash with protesters
2:15 Deborah Wild, Journalist
5:47 Anja Koch, DW Reporter

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Enjoy your stay....... Celerity Oct 2025 #2

Good Grief! The Georgians HATE the Russians! I've been there... Rhiannon12866 Oct 2025 #3

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Rhiannon12866

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3. Good Grief! The Georgians HATE the Russians! I've been there...

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Mon Oct 6, 2025, 06:44 AM

Oct 2025

And I was puzzled to see so many statues of Stalin in Tbilisi since I thought he was "out of favor", so I asked. And I was told that Stalin was Georgian, not Russian, and he was held in esteem in then-Soviet Georgia "since he killed so many Russians..."

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