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Georgian conservative groups come out against Vashadze for president

26 November 2018 by OC Media

'No to Nazism' rally on Freedom Square (on.ge)

Tens of thousands of people gathered on Tbilis’s Freedom Square on Sunday in a ‘No to Nazism’ rally organised by the con­ser­v­a­tive oppo­si­tion Alliance of Patriots party. [Read more…]

Filed Under: News Stories Tagged With: alliance of patriots, election, georgia, georgian dream, inashvili, president election, protest, rally, tbilisi, unm

Protests erupt in Ingushetia as MPs say Chechnya land swap vote was falsified

5 October 2018 by Aznaur Tashayev

Protests in Magas on 4 October (Aznaur Tashayev /OC Media)

Protests in Magas, the capital of the Russian Republic of Ingushetia, entered a second day on Friday after a con­tro­ver­sial land swap deal with neigh­bour­ing Chechnya was approved in a secret vote in the National Assembly. Several MPs in the regional par­lia­ment claimed the vote was falsified while the Ingush Con­sti­tu­tion­al Court declared the deal uncon­sti­tu­tion­al.

[Read more…]

Filed Under: News Stories Tagged With: border agreement, chechnya, constitution, ingushetia, land swap, magas, protest, rally, vote

Protests in Kabardino-Balkaria over retirement age rise

30 July 2018 by OC Media

28 July rally in Nalchik (Aslan Urumov /OC Media)

More than 500 people gathered in Nalchik, the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria, on Saturday to protest Russia’s pension reforms raising the retire­ment age by 5 years for men and 8 years for women. Similar protests took place simul­ta­ne­ous­ly in Kabardino-Balkaria’s second city, Prokhlad­ny, as well as dozens of cities through­out Russia.

[Read more…]

Filed Under: News Stories Tagged With: communist party, kabardino-balkaria, kbr, nalchik, prokhladny, protest, rally, retirement age

Two police officers killed in Ganja rally after botched assassination on mayor

12 July 2018 by OC Media

The police officers killed (/APA)

Two senior police officers were killed in Azerbaijan’s second city, Ganja, on Tuesday during an anti-gov­ern­ment protest. The demon­stra­tion was report­ed­ly organised against local mayor Elmar Valiyev, who survived an assas­si­na­tion attempt the previous week.

[Read more…]

Filed Under: News Stories Tagged With: assassination, Azerbaijan, elmar valiyev, ganja, gəncə, murder, radicalism, rally, riots

Protest in Daghestani town over lack of drinking water

4 July 2018 by OC Media

Strike in Izberbash (Saida Vagabova /OC Media)

Around 400 residents of the Dagh­es­tani town of Izberbash protested in front of the local mayor’s office on Tuesday, demanding their water access be restored. Houses in the town have been without water for the last three weeks.

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Filed Under: News Stories Tagged With: dagestan, daghestan, izberbash, izberbashsky, protest, rally, strike, water

Hundreds rally in Ingushetia for return of directly elected head

5 June 2018 by OC Media

2 June protest in Magas (Batyr Bogatyry­ov /YouTube)

Hundreds rallied in front of the gov­ern­ment offices and par­lia­ment in Ingushetia’s capital Magas on Saturday, demanding the return of direct elections for the head of the republic. The Council of Teips (clans) of the Ingush People tried to obtain a permit to hold the demon­stra­tion, but after being denied, decided to go ahead anyway, Caucasian Knot reports. [Read more…]

Filed Under: News Stories Tagged With: chechnya, elections, ingushetia, magas, mosque, muftiate, muslims, parliament, protest, rally, russia, yevkurov, yunus-bek yevkurov

Tbilisi court indefinitely bans metro strike ‘during working hours’

22 May 2018 by OC Media

Protest on Tuesday in front of the central Rustaveli Metro Station (Shota Kincha/OC Media)

Tbilisi City Court has indef­i­nite­ly banned drivers from the Tbilisi Metro from going on strike. Pro­test­ers gathered on Tuesday in front of the central Rustaveli Metro Station in support of the drivers, with unions vowing to go ahead with the strike and to take the case to the Con­sti­tu­tion­al Court. [Read more…]

Filed Under: News Stories Tagged With: georgia, labour code, labour conditions, labour rights, metro, metro workers, protest, rally, strike, tbilisi, workers rights

Georgian State Security Service issue warning to neo-Nazis

18 May 2018 by OC Media

Small groups neo-Nazis roamed central Tbilisi (Mari Nikuradze/OC Media)

Georgia’s State Security Service has warned a neo-Nazi group to abstain from using Nazi symbols in public. Small groups of neo-Nazis marched through Tbilisi several times last week, including on 17 May, Inter­na­tion­al Day Against Homo­pho­bia, giving Nazi salutes and chanting ‘death to the enemy’. [Read more…]

Filed Under: News Stories Tagged With: 17 may, arrests, fascist, georgia, human rights, idahot, IDAHOTB, neo-nazi, neo-nazi groups, police, queer, queer rights, rally, tbilisi

16–18 May 2013: the days of human tragedies

18 May 2018 by Giorgi Kikonishvili

Giorgi Kikon­ishvili is a blogger and member of the Equality Movement

On 17 May 2013, Inter­na­tion­al Day Against Homo­pho­bia, a small group of around 50 queer rights activists were con­front­ed in Tbilisi by thousands of counter-demon­stra­tors led by Georgian Orthodox priests. Demon­stra­tors carried posters with homo­pho­bic messages such as: ‘We don’t need Sodom and Gomorrah in Georgia’. The crowds, some carrying nettles to beat queer rights activists with, broke through police lines to attack the activists. Police were forced to evacuate the small number of activists from the city centre. Below is the story of Giorgi Kikon­ishvili, one of those present. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Voices Tagged With: dispersal, georgia, georgian orthodox church, human rights, idahot, IDAHOTB, lgbt, lgbt rights, protest, queer, queer rights, rally, tbilisi

Interior minister apologises over Tbilisi nightclub raids as far-right groups plan daily protests

14 May 2018 by OC Media

Police facing off with far-right counter-rally (Dato Parulava /OC Media)

Georgia’s Interior Minister Giorgi Gakharia has apol­o­gised over police raids on two popular night­clubs in Tbilisi. Gakharia met with protest leaders during a rally in front of Tbilisi’s par­lia­ment building on Sunday evening. Far-right groups, who have been holding counter-demon­stra­tions against ‘drug dealers and LGBT pro­pa­gan­dists’ vowed to continue to protest.

[Read more…]

Filed Under: News Stories Tagged With: bassiani, café gallery, demonstration, drug liberalisation, drug policy, drugs, far-right, neo-nazi, night wolves, nightclubs, protest, raid, rally, tbilisi, violence

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