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Photos from the June 20 protest outside Georgia's Parliament in Tbilisi
Late on June 20 in the center of Tbilisi, an unannounced protest broke out at the steps of Georgia’s Parliament building. Thousands of people took to the streets, following a speech by Russian State Duma deputy Sergey Gavrilov, who enraged the country’s opposition parties by sitting in the parliamentary speaker’s chair and speaking in Russian during a meeting of the Inter-Parliamentary Assembly of Orthodoxy. After activists demands for the resignations of several top state officials went ignored, protesters tried to storm the Parliament building, prompting the police to resort to tear gas, rubber bullets, and water cannons. Roughly 70 people were reported injured.
Vano Shlamov / AFP / Scanpix / LETA
Irakli Gedenidze / Reuters / Scanpix / LETA
Vano Shlamov / AFP / Scanpix / LETA
Zurab Tsertsvadze / AP / Scanpix / LETA
Zurab Tsertsvadze / AP / Scanpix / LETA
Irakli Gedenidze / Reuters / Scanpix / LETA
Zurab Tsertsvadze / AP / Scanpix / LETA
Zurab Tsertsvadze / AP / Scanpix / LETA
Irakli Gedenidze / Reuters / Scanpix / LETA
Zurab Tsertsvadze / AP / Scanpix / LETA
Irakli Gedenidze / Reuters / Scanpix / LETA
Irakli Gedenidze / Reuters / Scanpix / LETA
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