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‘Georgia is now governed by Russia’: how the dream of freedom unravelled
‘Foreign agents’ law just one of many moves made back towards Moscow while the west looked the other way
The army of riot police had finally retreated from Rustaveli Avenue, the broad thoroughfare in front of the parliament building, back into the barricaded parliamentary estate.
The last hour on the streets of the Georgian capital, Tbilisi, had been violent. Snatch squads had grabbed protesters as officers, beating their shields with truncheons, surged forward to push the chanting crowds away from the graffiti-scrawled, imposing parliament building.
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