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| Protesters try to storm Georgia parliament in Tbilisi as thousands gather for anti-govt rally | Protesters try to storm Georgia parliament in Tbilisi as thousands gather for anti-govt rally |
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| Protesters have attempted to storm Georgia's parliament building in the capital, Tbilisi, after thousands took to the streets in an anti-government rally. Police have reportedly used tear gas against them. | |
| Around 5,000 gathered outside the parliament to protest the participation of the Russian delegation in a session of the Inter-parliamentary Assembly on Orthodoxy, hosted by Tbilisi. | |
| The opposition has vowed that people will stay on the streets until parliament chairman, Irakli Kobakhidze, and several other top officials, who had allowed this to happen, offer their resignations. | |
| The demonstrators attempted to make their way into the parliaments’ courtyard, which was protected by the Special Forces. | |
| The Georgian Interior Ministry has urged the crowd to refrain from illegal actions, promising to “use all means within the law” to restore order. | |
| Kobakhidze, who was on an official visit to Azerbaijan’s capital, Baku, reportedly said that he had no intention of leaving his post. | |
| The Russian Foreign Ministry blasted the protests, saying that “the radical opposition in Georgia has exploited an important international forum, aimed at uniting the Orthodox nations of the world, to unleash its anti-Russian sentiment.” | |
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