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Protestors stand near the entrance to Rustaveli Metro Station. Photo: OC Media.
Georgia

In pictures | Black Lives Matter protest in Tbilisi

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Several dozen protestors gathered in front of Tbilisi’s Rustaveli Metro Station on 4 June to support the ongoing demonstrations in the United States against racism and police brutality.  The protest was composed of demonstrators from Georgia and around the world, including several Americans living in Georgia. They held signs declaring that ‘Black Lives Matter’ and calling for an end to police violence and repression.  Demonstrations erupted in hundreds of cities throughout the United States

You can buy a bust of Stalin for ₾40 ($14) on the Samgori second-hand market. Photo: Sofi Mdivnishvili/OC Media.
Economy

In pictures | Struggle in the open-air: Tbilisi’s Navtlughi Bazaar

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The open-air bazaars of Tbilisi began with the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, as newly-independent Georgia experienced political and economic turmoil. Having lost their jobs and homes, newly-destitute citizens began selling their possessions as hyperinflation decimated pensions and savings. At the Navtlughi Bazaar in Samgori, different nationalities congregate with the same objectives. Georgians, Russians, Armenians and Azeris work side by side without regard for ethnic ori

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Georgia

Transgender employee attacked in Spar supermarket in Tbilisi

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A transgender employee of the Spar supermarket chain has been attacked in Tbilisi because of her gender identity, queer rights group the Equality Movement has reported. According to the group, one man has been charged for the attack, which occurred last month. They said the employee, who was not seriously injured, had appealed to them for help. The incident is the third attack on an employee of Spar in Tbilisi in the last two months. The Equality Movement cited the woman as saying that

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